Sentence examples for perverse with from inspiring English sources

The French fantastical tradition often disguises the strange and perverse with a deceptive lightness of touch.

Mr. Jacobs has done something perverse with a symbol of professionalism, conservatism, and get-ahead careerism.

The family dynamic was perverse, with sister Cora reproducing the raging violence of the absent father while her mother made mild objections but never challenged her.

But the eccentricity of his performances, some of which seem wilfully perverse, with their mannered phrasing and exaggeratedly slow or fast tempos, was less easy to take.

Things get complicated (and perverse) with the appearance of Franz's discarded girlfriend, Anna (Ludivine Sagnier), and Leopold's abject transsexual ex-lover, Vera Anna Thomsonn).

There's something lacking, a touch of the bizarre or the perverse, with just one particularly nasty death to serve as a reminder that you're watching a Ben Wheatley film.

But McCarthy proved the first star able to out-disgust the perverse creature with her own obscene dialogue.

This series grafted corporeal, sexualised imagery on to the machinery of war, but like the Codex Artaud it played a perverse game with conventional gender roles.

Lang strips his already spare style of symbol and shadow to render this perverse tale with a cold, swift, logical perfection.

He seems to get most things wrong, but I have a perverse fascination with his logic, largely because it is so unsound.

It was in his late adolescence that Cheever's relationship — by his own account perverse — deepened with his elder brother, Fred.