It was characteristic of his perversity that he left his name upon nothing that he made, with one exception. |
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To assume perversity unworthily discredits an integral and honourable part of the justice system. |
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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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That is the way of human perversity, a perversity especially characteristic among intellectuals. |
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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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We therefore do him the injustice of mistaking his infirmity for perversity. |
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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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The real enemies in this film are the US Generals, who are displayed in all their war-mongering 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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The real perversity is the fact that democratically elected leaders now inhabit a different space from those who elected them. |
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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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If ever there were any doubt about the perversity of human nature, our present system of taxation is the proof! |
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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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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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In keeping with the cosmic perversity principle, it is the hardest cases that we find most interesting. |
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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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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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The basic intimation of his book is a profound sense of loss animating every artificiality and perversity. |
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But insane libertarians and promoters of polymorphous perversity have no answer. |
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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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When they fell into disuse I kept them out of perversity more than anything else, resisting change. |
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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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It deals frankly, openly, and graphically with sexual perversity and fetishism. |
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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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La vie Nouvelle is one powerful and uncompromising film as it searches the dark world of 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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With good British perversity, Sutherland is of course in the far NORTH of Scotland. |
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The Father knew already of the pain and trials that would bow humanity, and of the degree of perversity that men would reach. |
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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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Criminals are mutilated by surgery, magic or engineering in a manner that reflects their crime, or merely the perversity of the sentencing Magister. |
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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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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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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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Overall, however, the sexual activity in Christmas on Earth seems to fall not into the categories of gay or straight but into a kind of polymorphous perversity. |
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The man smiles back, resigned to his place in this brave new world of polymorphous perversity, where girls prefer girls and men are good for getting the drinks in. |
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The Commissioners ' error was not borne of dishonesty or perversity. |
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One day, Eugenia discovers the true character of her father: who he is a sadist of devilish perversity. |
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Are you sure that the lasciviousness and perversity that you see in that woman does not exist within your interior? |
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Hearst's life was so full of knavery and perversity that Mankiewicz simply sorted out the plums. |
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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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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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But their anger is justified: the coalition government is ruining Britain for reasons of ideological perversity. |
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Sooner or later, the system, in all its perversity, will have bitter consequences for humankind as a whole. |
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The perversity of a government investment system which is similar to subsidies must also be mentioned. |
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What is the perversity in the human soul that causes people to resist so obvious a good? |
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The horror and perversity of war is immensely magnified by the addition of scientific weapons. |
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A new flood will become unleashed that will cleanse the earth of human perversity. |
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On the surface, crimes motivated by profit are different from those driven by passion, peer pressure or simple perversity of human nature. |
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Behind every blowhard there's a sordid tale of sexual perversity. |
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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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It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy. |
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Meanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity. |
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This is not based on a perversity or a dislike or fear of women. |
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Time, circumstances, and agent have all conspired as by some cruel perversity to increase the mischief and the horror of an act which at any moment, or under any circumstances, would have been most mischievous and horrible. |
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Do you see how I cannot take sin, imperfections, or the perversity of men as offenses against the Father, knowing that the evil done by men is to themselves? |
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People, do not learn more about perversity, but combat it without boasting of your purity, nor should you be scandalized by the faults of your brothers. |
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But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is not clear, seeking discord, and searching for hidden meanings in it, but no one knows its interpretation except Allah. |
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The Union must speak with one voice and condemn the perversity of actions that increase the escalation of violence and undermine an already fragile peace process. |
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Most intriguing is a streak of perversity that runs through the stories, with Mr Franco especially potent on the subject of sexuality and human anatomy. |
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In the hereafter, the spirit can also find worlds of darkness, of perversity, of hatred and vengeance, according to the spirit's degree of confusion, low passions, and desires. |
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And despite the reliable perversity of a first-past-the-post electoral system in a multiparty democracy, there's never any easy way to tell whom it may favour. |
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It's all in bad humor, and for sheer, teeming perversity, it's a delight. |
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But a Pandoran perversity draws me to prize open what is forbidden. |
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We must not lose sight of the sacred character of each person. There are, however, those who seek to awaken the wickedness, villainy and perversity that lie within each individual, and those people must not go unpunished. |
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There is a strangeness and a perversity in the motion, that actually pretends to talk about principle, not even to mention the promises they made while they were in government. |
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And though perseverance can be an admirable trait and is essential for all success in life, when taken too far it becomes perseveration — uncontrollable repetition — or simple perversity. |
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And effective cynicism will mow down renegade perversity every time. |
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The project introduced a kind of perversity by placing the source of the disruption right in the centre of the town, breaking the system, producing a blemish. |
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The novel becomes a comic celebration of polymorphous perversity, and of literature. |
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They smile for the camera as they spew their phony message of tolerance, diversity and perversity. |
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Walt's polymorphous perversity breaks down societal codes and replaces them with a structure in which the characters relate happily, guiltlessly, and selflessly. |
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