Sentence examples for perverse triumph from inspiring English sources
It is a perverse triumph.
Yes, more with him than with Jacqueline Bisset or Valentina Cortese or Jean-Pierre Aumont in the same film: a director's perverse triumph, you could call it.
This was a perverse triumph for the law of supply and demand in an era infatuated with the charms of the free market.
The most favourable responses to the anthology were those of Auden and John Betjeman, while the most hostile was that of Donald Davie, who accused Larkin of "positive cynicism" and of encouraging "the perverse triumph of philistinism, the cult of the amateur... [and] the weakest kind of Englishry".
And here you thought that "The Shining" was a movie, as in a dazzling aesthetic object, a cultural touchstone, a showcase for Jack Nicholson, a perverse family drama, a fiendishly clever horror story, a triumph of personal vision and yet another Kubrickian technical tour de force — all or none of the above.
It wasn't until I was older and had learned to drive that I realized the old man took a sort of perverse pleasure in regaling us with tales of his triumph over all of the lousy drivers out there.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The Nineties Afghan Civil War on Steroids: Even if the international community gave up on Afghanistan and withdrew, as it did from Somalia during the early nineties, it is inconceivable that the Taliban could triumph in the country completely and provide a regime (however perverse) of stability.
My scenarios here are intended analytically, as a first-draft straw-man forecast: The Nineties Afghan Civil War on Steroids: Even if the international community gave up on Afghanistan and withdrew, as it did from Somalia during the early nineties, it is inconceivable that the Taliban could triumph in the country completely and provide a regime (however perverse) of stability.
The Nineties Afghan Civil War on Steroids: Even if the international community gave up on Afghanistan and withdrew, as it did from Somalia during the early nineties, it is inconceivable that the Taliban could triumph in the country completely and provide a regime (however perverse) of stability.
Triumph followed triumph.
