Sentence examples for there are perverse from inspiring English sources

"It's indicative of how there are perverse incentives that make it difficult to accomplish what everybody agrees should happen".

Not only is the law open to abuse, human rights workers claim there are perverse incentives for institutions to admit people unnecessarily.

There are people who think of sightseeing by luxury liner as a rung on the ladder to heaven, and then there are perverse others -- like us -- who find those tours too confining and cut off from the sights.

Along the way, too, there are perverse innovations in executions: attempts to hang multiple murderers simultaneously, scaffolds designed with trap doors, for easy execution, and hanging machines patented for their ability to lurch upward instead of dropping downward.

There are perverse reveries about nameless women who are half Virgin Mary, half Belle Dame Sans Merci: "You are the only form that does not radiate tedium, because you change with our feelings, because, in kissing our joy, you cradle our grief and tedium, you are the opium that comforts and the sleep that brings rest, and the death that gently folds our hands on our breast".

The bottom line is that although it's never been easier to search online, it's getting harder and harder to find exactly what we're looking for because there are perverse incentives to not only create, but also promote, keyword-optimized content.

"There is perverse irony when it comes to water poverty," Northover said.

There is perverse beauty in marital breakdown, and writers who show us this, from Henry James to John Updike, are worth celebrating.

During "Go On," one of the only songs that threatened to cause more than a mild stir, there were perverse close-up shots on the video screen overhead — which had been displaying images of waves and birds and color splotches — of Mr. Johnson patting his guitar strings as if they were an old, indolent dog.

Looking left and right down Hammamet's vacant coastline, there's perverse reassurance in the reality that there is hardly anyone here to target.

There could be perverse results, too.