Sentence examples for perverted for from inspiring English sources

And I felt perverted for prying.

But this is not explicit in Mr. Treichel's poem, and the savage irony of nature perverted for the purpose of execution is understated.

But the trashing of property rights ultimately means less economic progress and is a threat to our basic freedoms because it gives governments untrammeled powers that inevitably will be perverted for political favorites.

On the other hand, why is religious faith so often perverted for purposes of separation, oppression, and/or domination?

For too long, the only groups offering a future, albeit perverted, for young Muslim men and women have been groups like ISIL.

She concludes about Ovid and his version of Myrrha that: "What is perverted, for Ovid, is the use of sex as a power tool and the blind acceptance of sexual male power as a cultural norm".

Phelps and company directed their protests a few summers back in my home state of Iowa against "the Jews... [who] arrested, falsely accused, prosecuted and then sentenced [Jesus] to death...," and against the state of Iowa itself, because "God hates Iowa" for being "the first to begin giving $ to little [homosexual] perverts for no other reason than they brag about being little perverts".

"I guess they perverted it for reasons of comedy".

In 1946, Orwell published his influential essay, Politics and the English Language, in which he shivered over the frightening ease with which dark forces can exploit perverted rhetoric for malign ends.

The guns rights lobby has perverted this pledge for their own use – to advocate against stricter gun safety laws.

As he absorbed their anguishedly detailed requests, he realized that the purest perverts longed for a species of the poetic, for the incarnation of the impossible.