On the air one day, he marked the occasion in typically perverse fashion: by thinking of all the listeners who stuck around, and all the ones who didn't.
We don't really think about gender when we're writing though; we just write characters…" "I got a perverse pleasure in thinking of specific things I'd experienced that I could then use in the script".
The fact that the landscape in the 1995 part of the story is Alaskan white is meant to portray the dark good-ole-boys Old South history, in which the degenerate, perverse way of thinking led to unspeakable crimes, as manifested in the cult of child molesters and murderers.
"Some kind of Surrealist exercise meant to inspire me, but also prevent me from thinking the perverse, looping thoughts that come unbidden: I am hideous.
A combination of perverse priorities and flawed thinking.
I first read Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure when I was 17, and I was captivated by his portrait of this perverse, free-thinking, vacillating, highly emotional, highly intelligent and ill-fated woman.
You don't always understand what Michèle is doing and thinking, but you cannot help but believe her, every delectably perverse step of the way.
"I was thinking of trying to destroy bebop," he said in an offhandedly perverse way, stifling a laugh.
As awful as it often was, thinking back on it now, I'm filled with a sort of perverse pride in her.
