Sentence examples for perverse pattern from inspiring English sources

The act of giving away one child, McEwan believes, set in motion a perverse pattern.

Through all those zigs and zags, Donzy has shifted its politics in the same perverse pattern as the nation, often producing percentages uncannily close to the national vote.

(In the perverse pattern that now plays out after nearly every mass shooting in the United States, gun sales have increased in the week since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, for exactly this reason).

The pattern is perverse.

And he pointed out that cracking down on illegals has had a perverse effect, ending a pattern of seasonal or circular migration that has served Texas well for many decades.

The pattern sets up perverse incentives: Want to maximize your pay?

From the start, Pistorius's account is a perverse deviation from the overwhelming pattern of evidence that has been long established in such crimes, which is that the reasons lie in the nature of the relationship, specifically in the hostile attitudes of the killer to the killed.

But in a perverse reversal of traditional trade patterns, Europe ranks among the world's leading sugar exporters.

This would revolutionize the perverse price signals and investment patterns that now constrain the labor market.

The building's structure is hard to discern, and the overall grid pattern looks like a perverse exaggeration of the abstract geometries used by mid-20th-century architects for decorative relief.

What the brain does when it is doing nothing may seem a perverse question, but there are substantial consistencies in the observed patterns (Beckmann et al., 2005; Damoiseaux et al., 2006) that appear to have predictive power in the context of brain dysfunction (Wang et al., 2007; Greicius, 2008).