Sentence examples for perverse values from inspiring English sources

The film stresses how societies at war nurture perverse values and dubious heroes.

Arguably, the hate placards serve an educative purpose concerning the perverse values of those behind them.

The NFL's inherently perverse values are perhaps best represented by the punishment it decides to mete out to players.

However, for this approach to work with ISIS, these children need to be separated from a community that upholds perverse values that placed them in harm's way.

The States demonstrated the same perverse values with petitions to protect their MSA payments when an Illinois court threatened Altria with a US$12 billion bond [ 55].

Maybe there's some perverse value in an extreme event such as this, in that it will awaken us to the real underlying issues concerning what we're doing to the natural systems that keep us alive.

While the bigoted tripe of Rush Limbaugh deserves nothing more than dismissal, it can have the perverse value of actually encouraging more people to read what the Pope actually wrote, and the other source documents that set forth the Church's teachings on economic and social justice.

And if those are the criteria – how can a state with such perverse, debased values have any role on an eminent council set up to protect human rights?

In "Harvest," a tale of prejudice and perverse cultural values, Laura, a blond college suite-mate, sells her eggs to finance a designer wardrobe while the narrator, Angel, watches with disgust and envy.

While there was "no justification at all, and never will be" for what happened in the summer, he said there was a familiar context to the riots in the shape of rising underclass characterised by "chaos and dysfunctionality … and governed by a perverse set of values".

It is my personal experience that each action that is accomplished, even if well targeted, may determine unforeseen outcomes, some of which can assume a negative value, "perverse effects", not only negative in themselves but also contrary to all expectations and forecasts.