And here's the perverse bit: to be successful, most of the time you won't want to hit the ball at all.
He asked Congolese soldiers and police to "protect citizens and not to obey perverse orders aimed at killing defenceless men and women".
The British film industry may be occasionally ambivalent about the Guardian, but they probably love us deep down, and not giving the prize to Laura Poitras's Snowden film would be perverse.
Children are kept away from the corpse handlers, who are believed to chew garlic to hide the stench of death and take perverse pleasure in their line of work.
However, Murray is the most perverse of athletes.
The Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents the majority of Scotland Yard's 30,000 officers, criticised the IPCC for what it called the police watchdog's "catalogue of inappropriate comments and perverse actions".
The Met's move had been condemned by all Britain's major newspapers, including the Times and Sunday Times, and the Daily Mail's columnist Richard Littlejohn.Isabella Sankey, director of policy for Liberty, said: " "It would have been perverse in the extreme for early prosecutions in the phone-hacking scandal to be against those who blew it open rather than those who covered it up.
"Gangs of this nature must not be allowed to abuse members of this community and deliver their perverse concept of justice," he said.
The nature of theatre means that to aspire to do so is slightly perverse.
Labor, exhausted by the marathon, by the perverse acceleration of time that had aged a still youthful government, fundamentally worn down by the rolling moral panics and the instant referendums of the social media age, was simply trying to move on past the debacles of the Rudd/Gillard civil war, including the debacle of an election campaign that began to make sense only in its closing week.
