Sentence examples for pictures Perverse from inspiring English sources

In some of the pictures, perverse self-portraits lunge towards cutouts of suburban women in court shoes and buttoned-up tweed coats, the shape of things to come.

In Pictures: Perverse Incentives.

To the ordinary voter, the picture seems perverse: the bankers and bosses who caused the crisis and were then bailed out by taxpayers are now reaping a disproportionate share of the rewards.

For instance, Sorolla's image of naked handicapped boys reminded the curator of the disturbing, figural, if slightly perverse, pictures by the present-day painter Eric Fischl.

Land is a global commodity in high demand, so biofuels policies need to be designed with consideration of the global picture to avoid perverse effects.

As soon as I saw it, I thought, that's a really strange, perverse picture, whereas a lot of the others seem quite sanitised.

"I always thought that it was a perverse picture," says Schorr, who has since made a documentary about Prince, and befriended Shields when she photographed the actor/model last year for Interview magazine.

I still find it difficult to reconcile those unreal magazine pictures of JonBenet (whose perverse celebrity includes first-name recognition), with the grim reality of a dead child, stashed under a blanket in a basement with the garrote that killed her around her neck.

His most financially successful film remains the perverse but decidedly unambiguous slasher picture "Single White Female" (1992).

You like that karma is fighting the good fight against their immune system; you like that it's the perfect amount of suffering for you to "like" it guilt-free; and most of all, you like the perverse satisfaction of picturing them assuming you're rallying behind them in their hour of need.

Only, this picture was complicated greatly by the perverse incentives within Serie A's parachute payment system.