These people have what I'd consider perverse sexual tendencies.
Arguably even more perverse is a tendency to then let them off the hook.
Rather it feels as if Gauguin, irrepressible, cannot help his perverse and rebellious tendencies.
Arnold's aversion to wannabe stars – she used the unknown Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank – is commendable but it is also a perverse and possibly self-destructive tendency.
In a perverse way, climate change is reinforcing nationalistic tendencies to erect walls and barriers to threats; to block out, in effect, such bad news.
After all, the mere fact that we have managed to characterize consumer shock as frugality chic offers a perverse form of hope: That whatever happens, we'll never lose our tendency toward optimism — even, it turns out, about our pessimism.
Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons.
In an interview with the Observer, Ed Davey describes a "Tea Party tendency" among Conservative MPs who question climate change and green investment as "perverse", and says it is creating deep uncertainty for an industry that could do much to help lift the country out of the economic doldrums.
We discuss four specific types of bad incentive systems that can arise from these psychological tendencies in managers: those that over-emphasize compensation, generate weak motivation, offer perverse motivation, or are misaligned with organizational culture.
