Her arms remained tightly by her side throughout; her choice of attire, an un-moveably close-fitting pencil skirt impossible for perverse up-shots to penetrate.
Ramsay, too, sees it as "essentially a love story: a perverse, fucked-up love story between a mother who has conflicted feelings about motherhood and a son who despises her phoniness but longs for her attention".
During "Go On," one of the only songs that threatened to cause more than a mild stir, there were perverse close-up shots on the video screen overhead — which had been displaying images of waves and birds and color splotches — of Mr. Johnson patting his guitar strings as if they were an old, indolent dog.
"Strangers" was a harsh parody of an Afterschool Special, but it also made you fall in love with the perverse, screwed-up ignorance of Jerri Blank: her urge to embrace, and sometimes molest, a world that mostly glared at her in alarm.
He did his best work in his hundred-odd little picture books, nearly all of which consisted of whimsically perverse send-ups of Victorian primers, cautionary tales and "penny-dreadful" true-crime gazettes, often told in deader-than-deadpan verse.
Of course, it may seem perverse to set up everything from scratch when you can easily establish a presence on existing global marketplaces, such as Ebay, Amazon, Etsy and Rakuten, and let the customers come to you.
The two-tier labour market debars outsiders, notably the young, and sets up perverse incentives.
The pattern sets up perverse incentives: Want to maximize your pay?
A flaw is that the Baucus plan, like its chief rivals, does too little to fix the perverse incentives driving up health costs in the first place.
"There was an almost perverse momentum building up for Ed Miliband after the polls closed," said Will Straw, editor of the Left Foot Forward blog.
There are longueurs, and snippets of loveliness that drift away too soon, but Blunt's music – perverse, beguiling – creeps up on you and doesn't let go.
