Sentence examples for to perversity from inspiring English sources

"Violette Nozière will remain in our memories a sad and lovely ode to perversity," said a writer in Paris-Midi.

Bertolucci's romantic exuberance leads inevitably to excess, to perversity and decadence, which he views not morally, as criminal, but aesthetically, as the fiercest, most beautiful expression of desire.

"The Dark Knight," which was directed by Christopher Nolan (who also made "Batman Begins") and written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, is devoted to perversity. Bruce Wayne, attempting to bring order to Gotham City, has instead provoked the thugs.

This apparent eccentricity is due not to perversity, but because, as a publicly quoted company, they cannot tell all until the end of their accounting year, and meanwhile can only acknowledge the Bookscan gleanings, which are ineluctable.

"Malcolm" (1959), Mr. Purdy's first full-scale novel, further explored one of his cherished themes, innocence on the loose, this time in a picaresque tale whose Candide-like hero trips lightly from absurdity to perversity.

That attraction to perversity helps explain Dominik's bond with Cave, a longtime friend whom he hired along with another Bad Seed, Warren Ellis, to score his Oscar-nominated 2007 picture, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford".

Revealing that ideas of sexuality during the Romantic era were much more fluid and undecided than they are often characterized in the existing scholarship, Sha's innovative study complicates received claims concerning the shift from perversity to perversion in the nineteenth century.

His later work might want to be an attack on the puritanism of a certain sort of highbrow taste, or it might be pandering to the vulgarity of super-rich collectors, or to the perversity of the art market and the place he has come to occupy in it.

President Falwell's anxiety, unchecked, will give rise to a perversity on his campus: students forbidden to hang out with the opposite sex at off-campus residences and forbidden to attend a dance, but encouraged, as a sacred obligation, to stroll the campus green prepared at a moment's notice to unleash upon others their own personal weapon of mass destruction.

Rachel and Peter's stupefying, protracted breakup, which dominated the finale, called attention to the perversity of this formula.

This might not even be due to moral perversity; they might be so beyond us that they were incapable of recognizing us as objects of moral concern.