Sentence examples for perverse turn from inspiring English sources

Plato often observes that the ignorant prefer to remain as they are (Symposium 204a), but this perverse turn toward ignorance is different.

In what is quite literally a perverse turn on Ann Landers and Dear Abby but a page right out of Dr. Ruth the central premise of the book is that the animals of the world, experiencing problems in their love lives, or perhaps simply bewildered by the sexual behavior of their own species, write letters requesting advice from Dr. Tatiana, an expert in the evolutionary biology of sex.

But in a perverse turn of events, its "web presence" has never been better.

Anyone reading this reluctantly knows the perverse turn of events that followed: instead of a lesson on the holiday season, these young students were attacked and killed.

An exploration of an American genius whose life and career took many perverse turns.

At first, it seemed perverse to turn vivid human characters into dolls.

Is it a little perverse to turn that into something recorded and written?

Though it seems perverse to turn your back on the Great Barrier Reef, divert inland at Mackay for Eungella National Park.

In a perverse twist to the idea of a consumer economy, it turns out most of our consumption is taken up with buying pensions and insurance.

This was gingham feminism at its most perverse; it turned men into happy masochists, an assembly line of replaceable Darrins, yet left them with the illusion of command.

But Kuusisto and Stefanovich's self-indulgent performance seemed a perverse attempt to turn the sonata into a succession of slow movements, in which the latter's sparing use of vibrato made a tendency to play on the sharp side of the piano's pitch distracting.