Sentence examples for perverse wanting from inspiring English sources

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He added: "I don't say this in any particular spirit of perverse wanting to stick up for bankers, but it is very important that we defend an industry that generates huge sums of tax for this country".

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The egg is the conscientious but filthy id that is even more perverse for wanting to be there, knowing this desire is wrong.

The pattern sets up perverse incentives: Want to maximize your pay?

It may seem perverse to want more from a Conservative chancellor who became a byword for austerity and who outstayed his time at the Treasury.

As it turns out, her forbidden desire is so innocent it's perverse — she wants to have a baby, and she's even "picked out the church, all the schools, all the names".

But Plato is angry at Socrates and, out of perverse spite, wants to eat if and only if Socrates does not want to eat.

Indeed, according to then-South Dakota governor Richard Kneip, a Democrat, AIM activists were simply about "'creating a climate of fear, hatred, and reprisals.'" Nixon administration officials fully agreed, referring to AIM activists as "incendiary extremists," and as Indians who "in a perverse way, want a massacre".

It would be perverse to not want him, and his drive, in the world.

Then there is the perverse Carlos Danger who wants to be the first mayor who plastered pictures of his privates online.

Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said he did not "want perverse incentives [being created] for the leaders of the new consortiums to underspend.

It helps if the concept is so perverse that you want to scream, 'Why?'" With the major studios beginning to trot out their thoroughbred contenders for inspection on this year's awards circuit, competition at the other end of the spectrum has grown no less fierce.

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