Sentence examples for perverse side from inspiring English sources

More simplicity achieved, for sure, but with a rather perverse side effect.

The show becomes a national phenomenon, finding the perverse side of the public taste, until things spin out of control.

This paper investigates whether positive or perverse side effects dominate by exemplifying the impact of a water conservation campaign on electricity consumption.

Battening down the hatches until the situation clarifies will look to many like the safest institutional strategy, with the perverse side effect of actually reducing student opportunities.

What I did do is challenge myself to rise to the occasion and offer a full spectrum of my affinity for women, and not just the perverse side.

It creates a bond of mutual knowingness and sophistication between writer and reader, who become brothers and sisters in this extended appreciation of the perverse side of human nature, refusing ever to be so hokey as to actually be shocked.

Then there were performance targets: lots of them too, but they were often resented and sometimes had perverse side-effects.

Although the index briefly dropped below that milestone in early 2000, that decline didn't really count -- it was a perverse side-effect of truly irrational exuberance, as investors deserted the boring old Dow for the Nasdaq.

But there is a perverse flip side to this greater scrutiny.

"You do get to love the perverse, grumpy side of Stephen".

That perverse flip side of the creative process is an eternal puzzlement, an anomaly of potential unrealized, of the right things gone wrong.