Plato often observes that the ignorant prefer to remain as they are (Symposium 204a), but this perverse turn toward ignorance is different.
Like most children, my taste was perverse; I gravitated toward impish protagonists who played mischievous tricks, threw fits, and caused general mayhem.
But it can also be easily twisted toward perverse ends.
The Aldens, unlike most of that company, have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the operatic repertory, and even when their ideas drift toward the perverse or puzzling you have the sense that lively intellects are grappling with the stuff of the score.
Published in 1990 as a chapbook by a small North Carolina press, it brought Gurganus toward the commercially perverse, neither-this-nor-that form of the novella, in which he went on to do his best work.
But consider the facts: this scandal is not merely the sexual abuse of children by a handful of pedophiles within the church; it is also the systematic cover-up of this abuse, the hypocrisy of condemning homosexuality while maintaining a heavily gay priesthood, the sexism inherent in an all-male hierarchy and the perverse attitude of the church toward all things sexual.
President Obama's self-imposed rule against lobbyists in his administration, and the method whereby he is now implementing his progressive agenda, hews toward a rather perverse irony, if not hypocrisy.
A major driving force being that perverse incentives altered physicians' behavior toward self-interest at the expense of patients, even where professional ethics dictated otherwise [ 23].
Although planned apparently in detail, over a substantial period of time, the assault on Charlie Hebdo by Islamist fanatics could be seen as a perverse response to the positive initiatives toward Muslim immigrants taken by Merkel and other non-Muslims.
The other is the perverse system of incentives that nudges doctors and patients toward expensive tests and procedures when cheaper preventive measures might actually produce better results.
