Sentence examples for perverse quality from inspiring English sources

Mistakes have a perverse quality which means that as well as making them, we keep staring at them once they've happened, like a cat that has knocked something over and broken it.

It was never made explicit — the idea of a hard-core version of "Plastic Man" boggles the mind — but there was a polymorphously perverse quality to a character who personified Georges Bataille's notion of the body on the brink of dissolving its borders.

There is a perverse quality to this culture and discourse of contempt.

Investors receive full gross returns and are unaffected by perverse deal quality incentives facing pledge funds and brokers.

Although the Dutch reform is associated with perverse incentives for quality improvement (section 'Transparency and consumer information'), this is not necessarily an impediment to reform.

History, like life, has its own perverse winner-take-all quality: the biggest moments are remembered; the others often fade away.

Even the compromised sound quality became a perverse part of the appeal.

How perverse and strained must the quality of said mercy be to attach itself to an act that robs the poor of their health care subsidies and then gifts the top 0.1percentt nearly $200,000 a year in tax breaks?

Using indicators, which primarily reflect quantity, not quality, leads to perverse incentives and should be avoided.

And under our current perverse payment practices, when providers improve quality and efficiency, it frequently hurts their bottom lines.

Thus, members have been able to develop their own data standards, determine measures that are relevant for their communities and agree approaches between funders and providers that allow support for quality improvement without introducing perverse incentives.