Sentence examples for that a perverse from inspiring English sources

She felt that a perverse law of modern life was that the deeper the connection the more inevitable its breaking&that the relationships between men&women must be a special target of this law.

Although a mixed-race jury was expected to show impartiality, the coroner's instructions so confused it that a perverse contradictory verdict was returned, ie that an unarmed man could somehow be lawfully killed.

Researchers said the audit data and other memos, which had both been obtained from the government under the Freedom of Information Act, suggested that a "perverse quota system" within the I.R.S. may be pressuring auditors to focus on small and medium-size businesses and give less scrutiny to the largest corporations — those with $250 million or more in assets.

The Supreme Court's decision last week to consider a constitutional challenge to a key section of the act suggests that a perverse outcome of the 2012 campaign may be that President Obama's victory spells doom for the civil rights law most responsible for African-American enfranchisement.

Stringer's lawsuit against the N.F.L., which was filed in Federal District Court in Columbus, Ohio, argues that a "perverse, insidious and deadly culture has existed and continues to exist among N.F.L. coaches, which unreasonably subjects players to heat-related illness during practices".

In "The Holocaust in American Life" (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) the historian Peter Novick defended this view, arguing that a "perverse sacralization" of the Holocaust had taken place; he found it "deeply offensive" that the Holocaust had been regarded as a unique, Jewish event.

The Paris attacks, therefore, must be viewed amid the turbulence that grips the Middle East and the ideological fault lines that provide a perverse legitimacy to violence.

That's a perverse thing to say.

That's a perverse situation.

As crime prevention, that's a perverse outcome.

I suspect that's a perverse slap in the face of fashion.