Sentence examples for perverse on from inspiring English sources

It would seem perverse, on the face of it, to propose that this one particular manifestation of imagining should be treated as outrageous, should be excised if (which is doubtful) we can manage it.

To silence the key contribution of anthropology to promoting it is perverse on any view".

The underlying flaw is that the incentives are perverse on all three sides of the health care triangle.

But Prince was doing something perverse on every level, pushing every conventional signifier of race or sex past its limit.

MARTIAL SOLAL, a 73-year-old Paris-based French-Algerian who might be the greatest living European jazz pianist -- and is at least the equal of any in the United States -- is up to something unusual, not to say perverse, on his new album, "Martial Solal Dodecaband Plays Ellington".

This is impressive, if also a little perverse on its face, and is replicated across the SEC.

As stylistic detours go, this revival is a singularly perverse one -- although possibly on the money.

But it's also a perverse put-on that owes a bit to J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss".

To the Editor: We doctors should "rage" against a system so perverse that on any given day a physician may treat 15 patients with as many insurance plans requiring unproductive paperwork.

The impossible, too, is at the centre of his work: in one photomontage – possibly a perverse play on Velázquez – a figure lounges on a couch in the pose of The Toilet of Venus.

Super Bowl Media Day has always been one of the more perverse dates on the calendar, and is a little bit sicker now that they've started charging fans to attend.