Sentence examples for sort of perverse from inspiring English sources

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But if it's true, then maybe junk-food-branded vegetables make some sort of perverse sense.

So putting lime slices, which are almost liquid, on it seemed sort of perverse".

As a teenager, when the drama was really high, I took some sort of perverse pride in it".

Yet it seems increasingly clear that party officialdom regards him as something of an albatross.So is this a sort of perverse conspiracy?

That the label still sticks is a sort of perverse compliment, a comment on the resilience of the theater before unceasing predictions of its demise.

In a way, they are a form of validation for their subject, said Mr. Riley, a sort of perverse Mount Rushmore.

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Worse still, perhaps, he will trigger all sorts of perverse behaviour by the companies – none of which is likely to be in the interests of the consumer.

In America, where 30% of people in the public sector are unionised compared with just 7% in the private sector, public-sector workers enjoy better pension rights than private-sector workers, as well as higher average pay.The public sector is subjected to all sorts of perverse incentives.

It's sort of a perverse use of metaphor, one calculated to leave a distinctive taste or distaste in the mouth of the person reacting to it, sort of something between metaphor and petit four.

" "But as an actor, those scenes are the ones you really get to sink your teeth into, so there's sort of a perverse enjoyment in exploring those really dramatic moments as well".

It's kind of perverse".

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