Sentence examples for touch of perversity from inspiring English sources

The symphonies of the Danish composer Rued Langgaard suggest a third path: one of obstinacy and a touch of perversity.

With a touch of perversity, Roosevelt encouraged parallel lines of command, not only between departments, but within them.

Or, to add a touch of perversity, the coats were made in a colorful jellylike rubber that seemed a long way from wartime trenches.

The person on the cover obviously has a disease, but the straps and the way they are hung also give it a bondage feel and a touch of perversity.

The rigorous clothes, with that touch of priestly perversity, as in a Federico Fellini movie, made for a streamlined and sensual wardrobe for a modern woman.

Only occasionally in Mostow's movie do we get that hint of perversity.

It's an argument that would touch the edge of perversity if it were not so beautifully articulated, at length, as paradox.

There was more than a touch of eccentricity, even a deliberate musical perversity, which the mature Motian trafficked in, a calculated wrench-in-the-machinery ploy that kept his bandmates and his listeners on their feet.

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.

The Vorrh is a miracle of perversity.

The Prince of Perversity even smiled.