Sentence examples for perverse whim from inspiring English sources

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What he does not say is that Israel's preoccupation with security is not the perverse whim of a hardline Government.

One site visited by Khan's work crew sounds like the abandoned home of Larry Hillblom, the runaway billionaire who indulged his every perverse whim on Saipan until he disappeared in a small plane that took off from there.

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The most popular picture gallery was our ' Banned' list of films - an article that ironically enough proved so controversial that we had to make a second list simply to satisfy the perverse whims of our readership.

They range from the merely perverse — Uday, on a whim, ordering guests at a birthday party to strip naked and dance — to more chilling incidents like cruising a Baghdad street in one of his many sports cars preying on schoolgirls, or snatching a bride away from her wedding celebration.

She has a whim of iron, an almost perverse attraction to sentimentality in its most risible forms.

Mr. Chomet's ravishingly weird animated feature unfolds in a universe of sheer impossibility, where size, proportion and balance are ruled by the whims of the director's perverse pen and his peculiar imagination.

And of course the method by which Oberon punishes Titania for her refusal to grant his whim — by bewitching her into making love to an ass — is peculiarly perverse and humiliating (albeit, of course, very funny).

How perverse.

This was her whim.

Not exactly a whim.

Very perverse.

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