How To Use Perversity In A Sentence
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I became a Marxist out of sheer perversity.
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Acts which may in themselves be regarded as either perverse or bordering upon perversity may be considered permissible if they produce better reproductive sex between married couples.
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I can nowise explain what sort of whim, prank, or perversity it was, that, after all these leave-takings, induced me to go to the pig-stye and take leave of the swine!
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By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness, I felt the more strongly for my creed when I saw it despised among men.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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… He [Praxeas] was the first to import into Rome this sort of perversity, a man of restless disposition in other respects, and above all inflated with the pride of martyrdom [confessorship] simply and solely because of a short annoyance in prison; when, even if he had given his body to be burned, it would have profited him nothing, not having the love of God, whose very gifts he resisted and destroyed.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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It would be irresponsible to write his mobile-phone number on the wall of a public lavatory, along with an expression of enthusiasm for some barely legal perversity.
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There is a gorgeous perversity in the idea of a woman forced to a blush by the reality of her own naked body.
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With good British perversity, Sutherland is of course in the far NORTH of Scotland.
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La vie Nouvelle is one powerful and uncompromising film as it searches the dark world of perversity.
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The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them.
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This is not based on a perversity or a dislike or fear of women.
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I hadn't realised it was told in an interwoven structure of sections, some straight fiction, some fake factive -- excerpts from encyclopaedias and such -- so it was a pleasant surprise to find it doing the sort of things I particularly like, even apart from the groovily weird but sensitively treated perversity of the subject matter.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Capitalism, colonialism, neocolonialism, Marxism, literary ignorance, cultural arrogance, fear, and just about every other form of human perversity become the enemy.
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He refused to attend out of sheer perversity.
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He was vilified by the press as a monster of perversity.
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They use perversity to create a false impression of profundity.
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Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design —
Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2
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It was not the words of the ass (for it merely deprecated his beating it), but the miraculous fact of its speaking at all, which withstood Balaam's perversity in desiring to go after God had forbidden him in the first instance.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Certainly, it is common xenophobic practice to attribute sexual perversity or illness to another nation or people.
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The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity.
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Its mix of rational deduction and wild credulity, coupled with recklessness and topped with a dollop of sheer perversity, captivated her.
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The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances that other heartbreaking power, the perversity of inanimate things.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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And while most people are happy to keep a sensitive condition under wraps, some delight in the perversity of its exploitation.
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Nor is even the first heroine of the name destitute of a certain strange beauty in her fierceness, or of honesty in the midst of perverted passion and passionate perversity.
Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells
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If some perversity sends you in quest of these, you should be looking in sections of old Christian books.
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By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness,
Eothen
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In both movies, there's sexual perversity and violence - although here is where the crucial differences between these two great filmmakers start to show.
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She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.
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If ever there were any doubt about the perversity of human nature, our present system of taxation is the proof!
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The ultimate end of the relentless pursuit of perversity is probably something like the world of Charles Stross's Glasshouse, a novel depicting a post-singularity society that must be one of the most miserable and monotonous places I have ever read about.
Personal Update and News of Sorts
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Inspirational Quote: The hag Sedition was your mother, and Perversity begot you.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Overall, however, the sexual activity in the play seems to fall not into the categories of gay or straight but into a kind of polymorphous perversity.
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There is, as Yeats reminded us, a certain perversity here: People who actually know something are more likely to be fairly tentative and circumspect, while people ill-informed enough to think everything is quite simple will be confident they know all they need to.
Perils of pop philosophy
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Multi - narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft - Ebing's notorious medico - forensic study of sexual perversity.
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From my psychotherapeutic activity, I know too well how much vileness and perversity are gently covered by the term flirtation nowadays in the circle of those who have learned early to conceal the traces.
Psychology and Social Sanity
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To assume perversity unworthily discredits an integral and honourable part of the justice system.
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It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
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This about not loving her, physically, bodily, was a mere perversity on his part.
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Yet I keep doing it, entirely for the perversity.
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The author of the book seems to be obsessed with sexual perversity and death.
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The birds whose very element is the air, in which they are never at rest, yet show a steady sagacity, which God's people do not. times -- namely, of migrating, and of returning. my people -- This honorable title aggravates the unnatural perversity of the Jews towards their God. know not, &c.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Leonardo Di Caprio, who at one point was going to star, would have added an extra level of baby-faced perversity.
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Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.
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It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism.
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When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change.
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We grieved at that robust and shrewd land's fatal weakness for making right, then wrong decisions, and standing by the latter beyond all reason and with puritanic perversity…
Archive 2009-06-01
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He refused to attend out of sheer perversity.
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John Barth is known as the procreator of sacred monsters ” strange hybrid creatures endowed with attributes that display his erudition, gift for mimicry, and perversity, in almost equal proportions.
Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic
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Turning from his comedic work at Britain's Ealing Studios to direct this noirish, all-American masterpiece about greed, ambition, and the perversity of power, Alexander MacKendrick relied on estimable playwright Clifford Odets and writer Ernest Lehman for their scripting talent.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
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there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism
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In the logic of the play, Iona is cast as a politically dangerous figure because of her perverse erotic engagements, although Shelley wisely never particularizes the full range of Iona's so-called perversity; and the ultimate crime that all of Iona's transgressions metaphorizeSwellfoot's "castration" is punished even before it is committed, since Swellfoot calls for the beheading of the Queen before she confronts him directly with her own demands for political power.
Shelley
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Arthur took a second sip out of sheer perversity, swallowed.
BEHINDLINGS
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It was like the perversity of fate that death could not leave her alone once it had begun.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The author of the book seems to be obsessed with sexual perversity and death.
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In keeping with the cosmic perversity principle, it is the hardest cases that we find most interesting.
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We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity.
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Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.
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There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity.
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This is a perversity born of moral vanity.
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The perversity of his relationship with Busch, whom he patronises and desires, and her feelings for him - oscillating between hatred and tenderness - come into focus here too - powerfully but too late.
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Perversity — or would-be originality — alone could declare Jonson's tragedy preferable to his comedy.
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His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.
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What perversity would inspire a busy corporate spokesman to lavish devotion on such an inert and - let's face it - steadfastly unlovable personage for more than two decades?
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The other seems to him only an unrighteous actuality or a case of human obstinacy or perversity.
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Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works!
Archive 2009-04-26
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To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare of the very beings whose present existence they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Thus it is that the weakness of our intellect and the perversity of our will lend each other mutual support; and that, generally, a disputant fights not for truth, but for his proposition, as though it were a battle pro aris et focis.
The Art of Controversy
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That Chiltern which she called her Viking, and which, with a woman's perversity, she had perhaps loved most of all, was but one expression of the other man of days gone by.
A Modern Chronicle — Complete
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His ability seemed to spring from perversity; perhaps even from unhappiness.
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But the perversity is not limited to developing economies.
Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green
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The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
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If, again, it is permitted to pretend that the passage has another meaning, and was written as it is from some reason unknown to us, this is no less than a complete subversal of the Bible; for every absurd and evil invention of human perversity could thus, without detriment to Scriptural authority, be defended and fostered.
Theologico-Political Treatise
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This is an eruption of postadolescent, you know, perversity, which found its voice in unions and in the media.
President Gingrich?
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It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
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It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
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He tried to see the face of this maid, who showed a perversity that was unequalled in an experience by no means limited, but she stood in the duskiest part of the dim hall, and he failed.
The Candidate A Political Romance
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It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception.
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THE number of sins a person may commit is well-nigh incalculable, which is only one way of saying that the malice of man has invented innumerable means of offending the Almighty -- a compliment to our ingenuity and the refinement of our natural perversity.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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The real enemies in this film are the US Generals, who are displayed in all their war-mongering perversity.
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Aside from the perversity of putting the government in charge of teaching the next generation of voters, it distorts housing markets beyond recognition.
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Max refused the money out of sheer perversity.
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I mean I've had no problems with showing a bit of skin, but this sort of fetish strikes me as a disturbing perversity never before attempted.
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The Commissioners ' error was not borne of dishonesty or perversity.
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All we urge in these matters is some sense of balance, some deference to the unregimented perversity of the human spirit.
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Libertarians are also naïve about the range and perversity of human desires they propose to unleash.
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It doesn't take long for the scab of small-town wholesomeness to be picked off, revealing the perversity festering underneath.
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No one really knew the depths of perversity in MacDougal's heart.
BARN BLIND
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That is the way of human perversity, a perversity especially characteristic among intellectuals.
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In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
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Many of their performances testify to organizational stupidity; a few testify only to the perversity of fate.
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The Brasserie was of particular interest because of the perversity of its location: in the windowless basement of the premier glass-and-steel building of the modernist era.
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A troubled narrative of fear, laughter and perversity, the work questions where real life ends and art begins.
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Or worse: lest we fall afoul of future generations of scholars who may claim not only error, but even perversity, in our work.
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Guilt's malignancy stalks a gas-lit shadow-dance upon the walls, perversity arouses oestrus in the embers of our trance; magic moments muted in taut breath are crushed in weighted consequence, discretion flees the night to heighten senses steeped in self-pity, drowned in self-indulgence.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Vaslav Nijinsky rose to stardom as the golden slave in Diaghilev’s ballet, Scheherazade, appearing “in brown body paint, and grinning, and wound with pearls — not so much as a sex object but as sex itself, with all the accouterments of perversity that the fin-de-siècle imagination could supply: exotism, androgyny, enslavement, violence.”
Scheherazade Goes West
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The installation delights in its own perversity and lo fi production values and challenges the viewer to come up with a formula to explain it.
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It frequently comments on what it sees as the 'lightness of sentencing', the perversity of jury decisions and the hedonistic life led by prisoners.
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With the usual perversity also, the common standard "peseta," in which small bargains are struck on the coast, was omitted, the nearest coin, the quarter-dollar, being nominally worth ptas.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
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Critics might think it indulgence in willful perversity.
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It’s sheer thumbing-your-nose perversity that the neocons are greeting him as a hero after wasting our taxpayer dollars buying his ‘Curveball’ misintelligence that BushCo used to get us into a war that didn’t need to be fought.
Think Progress » Durbin: Don’t Be Surprised If “The Chalabi Motorcade Speeds Up When They Pass the Department of Justice”
