Sentence examples for perverted version from inspiring English sources

I heard and saw nothing that made me feel I was seeing a diluted or perverted version of tradition (as often happens with folk forms).

They are glued down in strict typological arrangements, like a perverted version of Gerhard Richter's Atlas.

A literalist, Phelps believed that contemporary Christianity, with its emphasis on God's love, preached a perverted version of the Bible.

An untitled 1939 canvas by Frank Runacres shows a kind of perverted version of Dürer's famous print Melancholia.

The rude waiter, the dismissive sales clerk, the low-ranking bureaucrat who demands still another obscure document are all playing a perverted version of a seduction game that glorifies lingering.

Some perverted version of that impulse is fulfilled in "It Can't Happen Here," which imagines the improbable election of an authoritarian named Buzz Windrip over Roosevelt to the Presidency of the United States.

To counter perverted versions of their religion portrayed by extremist groups such as IS, Obama urged regular Muslims to "let your light shine," a Christian expression.

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".

There are lots of different versions of this lie: Homosexuality is disordered, perverted, contrary to natural law, immoral.

Warren's version was narrow: the laws shaping the economy had been perverted so that the country was congenial for the rich and brutal for the poor.

The reason for his turnabout, he writes in his book Conservatives Without Conscience, is that true conservatism has been perverted by politicians and thinkers -- primarily the religious right -- who embrace an extreme version of authoritarianism, in both philosophy and policy.