Sentence examples for principle of perversity from inspiring English sources

"I believe the responsibility or onus of the poet," he once wrote, "is to assert and affirm the human principle of perversity..

If you want more perversity, follow Rob Delaney; for more familiar perversity, go to Sarah Silverman; and for a melancholy blend of perversity and directness, there's Lena Dunham.

What streak of perversity makes it seem the sexiest?

The Vorrh is a miracle of perversity.

The Prince of Perversity even smiled.

Some kinds of perversity are so bizarre that one despairs of ever understanding them.

Quite apart from taking pride in the show, Butterworth is pleased with "The River" for reasons of perversity.

Such "extreme reading" requires special personal traits: grit, stamina, a penchant for self-improvement, and a dash of perversity.

But as the models walked out, any sly Prada suggestion of perversity or sexuality was left at home.

He's into soft and loud, earnest craft and a bit of perversity, new sounds and old sounds.

"I was really surprised that people read any kind of perversity into it.