Sentence examples for perverse playing from inspiring English sources

His incoherent and interpretively perverse playing defies description.

Superficially, Galileo is a perverse play for Brenton and Hare to have worked on.

The collars alone, with their bold curlicues in white lace, marked the difference between last season's perverse play on maids and the dainty dresses for spring/summer 2012.

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.

"Ugh, I wish I had a wheelchair so I could cut to the front of the line," one preteen lamented to another while witnessing the perverse play laid out before them.

I think it is not merely that these men are being perverse or playing games with their public, but there's something polluting about expressing opinions beyond what you express in your fiction.

All this led to a question: wasn't it perverse to play a phrase with body language that was opposed to the musical idea itself?

You'd have to ask a psychologist about the impulse to see a painting of Obama and immediately think about jizz, pedophilia, and losing your virginity, but as ThinkProgress pointed out, "The suggestion that Obama's portrait a portrait of the first Black U.S. president—is somehow sexually perverse also plays on a racist trope that suggests Black men are naturally inclined to be sexual predators".

This finding points to a "perverse level playing field" where potential investors in these extremely corrupt countries know who is in charge and can thereby succeed and prosper.

Because of the "perverse level playing field" that makes moderately corrupt countries unattractive, large investors looking at foreign markets might prefer to invest in the most corrupt nations (as well as the most transparent).

• Why are we not looking to change our current civil and criminal racketeering statutes, which are playing a perverse role in investigations of the crisis?