| 单词 | perverse |
| 例句 | Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The notion that we must understand the past in its own terms, though, can place historians under a perverse pressure to find someone in the past who can act as spokesperson for their own views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The country simply will not accept a prince of his proclivities. I am sorry, dear, but to them, it’s perverse.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I am not proud to say it gives me a perverse kind of joy to see Jackson take a few licks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Will had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited perverse virtues, and never let his jealousy go wandering. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His voice sounded sympathetic, kind, in spite of some perverse attempt to make it sound matter-of-fact. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As a perverse and incredibly boring experiment, I am now trying to prove that I can get by without the drugs and the drinking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The kind ones recognize, somewhere deep inside their starched uniforms, that there is something perverse about what they're doing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z To begin with, some researchers—many but not all from an older generation—deride the new theories as fantasies arising from an almost willful misinterpretation of data and a perverse kind of political correctness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One day in a fit of desperation, or maybe it was just perverse frustration, I put in an application at the Dollar Store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z How ridiculous, how perverse I would feel presenting that painted Capitol mask to these people. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Frankie had once mused about sending us into the wealthier Reform shuls over in Kenwood and South Shore, taking an almost perverse satisfaction in the idea of robbing people in prayer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Brooke, with that perverse streak of humor, the sleek yellow hair and seal-like body. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Buried in textbooks and scientific papers, these insights would be ignored by powerful political forces that would soon embark on the most perverse forms of human genetic manipulations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was greed and power that excited him in a perverse way. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Wickham’s society was of material service in dispelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z And I was perverse enough to be bothered by the ease. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "Are you utterly ignorant or simply perverse? You know as well as I that die Martells have no cause to love us." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Dyed flowers are unnatural and perverse and, I suspect, obscene also. I can see that I am going to have my hands full with you people.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, not only in astronomy but in other realms of inquiry, notably mechanical technology and medicine, the ancients seem almost perverse in their aversion to stumbling on the truth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Out of some perverse pride, Uncle had told them to use those sheets for the tent. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A perverse benefit of birth in the camp was a complete absence of expectations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It is, however, generally understood that a party has a pathology, that it is a kind of an individual and that it is likely to be a very perverse individual. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, there is a strong tendency to brand as fanatics or cultists all who are so perverse as to demand that their food be free of insect poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She had been entertaining everyone with her perverse rhymes since the fourth grade. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I had found all sorts of ways to incite a quarrel between Phil and Gay, which gave me a perverse satisfaction—until Phil lost his usual cool and stormed out to his workshop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Neglectful parents,” quoted Merlyn, who was in a scholarly mood, “and saucy, perverse children.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind I invented snmyhymns, as I call them, my own perverse hymns that can be sung equally well forward or backward: Evil, all its sin is still alive! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Lewis “told me facetiously that he is going to have the Radiation Laboratory declared a public nuisance,” Lawrence wrote Poillon, not without a certain perverse pride. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Something perverse made him not want to hand the whole score to his friend on a platter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, though, his threats are the only reason I have to fight—the sheer perverse glory of not backing down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Flowever, the true atrocities, the most frightening, incorporate a perverse psychological twist designed to terrify the victim. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z At first glance the Babylonian system seems perverse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I tried to keep a small part of me dry and warm, around my chest, where I had placed the survival manual, but the wetness spread with perverse determination. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to have fallen from the sky, they seemed filled with a wonder that was almost perverse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I felt a perverse pleasure in these pains, for they distracted me from my misery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It probably shows a perverse element of my personality that even though I was finally inside the Archives, surrounded by endless secrets, that I was drawn to the one locked door I had found. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The voyage by boat, however, would probably enervate me, and I am certainly not perverse enough to attempt air travel even if I were able to afford it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The first trial, of a Los Alamos device code-named Bravo, was a fiasco, though one that brought a sort of perverse credit to the Los Alamos lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Beside the refrigerator, arranged with perverse neatness, stood a row of empty Scotch bottles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Does she think that I’m one of these perverse Mark Twain characters?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The situation was perverse but not without irony: a few months before, Audrey had said that Shawn should be supervised around children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Still there was something perverse in his searching. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The newly minted “human geneticist,” Josef Mengele, would soon rise to become the most epically perverse of Nazi researchers, whose experiments on prisoners would earn him the title Angel of Death. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes I thought I heard Edmond’s voice in my head but it always turned out to be my subconscious replaying old tapes out of some perverse kind of nostalgia. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to believe she was no longer worthy of their attention or maybe that it was wrong to look at her now, that there was something perverse about it, and they averted their gaze. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A woman who took an almost perverse pleasure in flaunting the normal order. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Jo March, you are perverse enough to provoke a saint! You don’t intend to make calls in that state, I hope,” cried Amy, surveying her with amazement. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Bragg was in for a moment, but neither of us wanted the perverse joy of informing him that the English labs were again about to be humiliated by the Americans. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I am sure this man was one of the ones who roamed the camp shooting people, either following Goeth's orders or just for his own perverse entertainment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Regardless, it remains a richly, often brutally well-observed wonder, perverse and compelling throughout. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 4 Phantom Thread 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It's evidence of Plant's appealingly perverse attitude to his back catalogue. Robert Plant 2010-09-03T21:01:00Z Seen today they are tremendously entertaining: witty, perverse and gleefully malevolent. On DVD, ‘Three Wicked Melodramas From Gainsborough Pictures’ 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z "Almost all the many perverse behaviours in the UK housing market stem from the artificial shortage of land for development in this country" Lyons said. Labour: let cities grow by lifting the cap on councils' borrowing 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The effect is initially startling, but ultimately disrespectful and perverse. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z The material here is so extensive and the subject so important that it might seem perverse to complain. Museum Review: New Holocaust Museums Must Make Hard Choices 2011-03-23T12:37:55Z So just to recap, "Stalker" will be pretentiously moralizing about the grim realities of stalking while exploiting the crime's most perverse and gruesome aspects in an effort to be psychologically thrilling. In violent 'Stalker' on CBS, depravity seems to be the point 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The yarn is a real corker, a polymorphously perverse tale of baffling motives and strangely poignant psychology. Billy Crudup in 'Harry Clarke': A deviously brilliant performance is reborn as an audiobook 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z In a perverse sense, the latter may actually serve the WGA’s cause. If late-night comedy goes on strike: What happens if Jimmy Fallon has to write his own jokes? 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Most taxidermy stories hold their animals at a remove, framing them as either pedagogical—fodder for exhibition—or perverse. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z But the movie’s commitment to the blandest possible presentation of its central problem starts to seem perverse after a while. Movie Review: ?The Vow,? With Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum 2012-02-09T22:50:56Z The perverse effect, Mr. Kiwan said, is to desensitize viewers to suffering. Syrian Film Collective Offers View of Life Behind a Conflict 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The idea that for a second I would want to do that or the film would do that is perverse. Benedict Cumberbatch: fanboy, photobomber, award-circuit rider 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z And some of his observations are just willfully perverse. Books Of the Times: ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012-12-17T05:15:19Z That much has been plain about Logan, particularly within the perverse glee he takes in curbing Kendall. "Succession" presents the "Chiantishire" dog show, starring the well-bred Roys 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z In some profound or perverse way, I see a subtle kinship between the watershed premiere of “Fresh Off the Boat” in February 2015 and the recent revival of “Roseanne” in March 2018. ‘Roseanne’: When a Punch Line Feels Like a Gut Punch 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Known for its often brutal subject matter and perverse sense of humor, Preacher won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for best continuing series in 1999. Steve Dillon, Comic Artist Who Helped Create ‘Preacher,’ Dies at 54 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z There is something to admire about Michaux, his perverse integrity in refusing the consolation of metaphor and ignoring the hunger of his readers for meaning. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It shows that perverse 9/11 imagery featuring Kryptonian eye lasers definitely melting steel beams is so omnipresent in these movies that they aren’t even special enough to save for the third act. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z In that hothouse of talent, awash in rich kids and titled aristocrats, students from lesser backgrounds enjoy a perverse cachet. ‘Black Chalk’ review: A school game turns deadly 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Those years feel now like a perverse captivity in which I was jailer as well as prisoner. How I came out to my three kids 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The former “Arrested Development” star is a perverse delight as Cora Wolf, a scientist who may or may not have a cure for Sheila’s condition. Portia de Rossi is the secret weapon of “Santa Clarita Diet” 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z McDermott treats all of this as mysterious antiquated ritual, perverse Victorian rite and lusty variety show. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z When your world — or, as it often seems these days, the world — is falling apart, there’s perverse comfort in watching things go smash in a safe, contained environment. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z They share his perverse and unfounded anxieties and fears of white obsolescence and white oppression. Roseanne and America’s white victim complex: Why canceling her show isn’t enough 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z This perverse favouritism has produced some disasters – such as Jean Nouvel's One New Change shopping centre. The Cheesegrater: Richard Rogers sprinkles the Square Mile 2013-06-16T17:00:01Z Some such thinkers blame the "Downton Abbey syndrome", that is, the perverse attraction of the trappings of poshness for the downtrodden victims of capitalist excess. What's The King's Speech's secret weapon of mass adulation? 2011-02-22T16:45:41Z Equally pleasurable, if at a deeper, more perverse register, is “The Blue Room,” the latest from the actor and director Mathieu Amalric. ‘Red Army’ Is Among the Notables at Festival 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z This intense documentary shows a driven creator walking the walk, so to speak, in the most perverse fashion possible. Review: ‘Shadowman’ Traces the Rise and Fall of an ’80s Artist 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Conversely his art at its best bears witness to the often perverse machinations of the state. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey Lands at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-04-17T21:00:53Z As digital video media become all the more universally ubiquitous, so it seems artists throughout the world are increasingly re-embracing the primal potencies of drawing with an almost perverse timeliness. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z They sort of have a whole new level of thrill between them in this perverse way, I guess. "Only Murders in the Building" boss on the killer, who's back next season and a case for rewatching 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z I liked its perverse combination of expensiveness and pseudo-blue-collarness, for both good and wrong reasons. | Reed Krakoff: Bulletproof Clothing: Take Your Best Shot 2010-09-21T21:46:00Z Q: You're often accused of being cruel and perverse to your characters - how do you plead? Director Todd Solondz looks for lightness in new "Dark Horse" 2012-07-26T18:21:08Z The perverse and the pathological, though, don’t come through strongly enough in this staging, directed by Ms. Lupica with a naturalism that diminishes any sense of menace, revolutionary or otherwise. Theater Review: Ferdinand Bruckner’s ‘Pains of Youth,’ by Cake Shop Theater 2014-02-19T22:39:34Z By combining Medicare Part A and B as I described above, it eliminates some of the perverse incentives around hospitalization. Burr-Coburn: The Best Medicare Reform Proposal Yet 2012-02-16T16:01:02Z Footage of her being forced to dance alongside a 6ft kangaroo on a German children's TV show in 1985 suggests her decision to retreat from the limelight was eminently sensible rather than perverse. Abba's Agnetha Fältskög returns – and unravels the mystery of her silence 2013-03-13T17:33:45Z I get that wealthy people use tax advisors, but this suggestion struck me as perverse; surely if anyone could afford to pay their taxes, it was finance professionals earning high salaries? Watching Lehman Brothers collapse from the inside: A 2008 recruit on the bank’s final days 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z On the face of it, embracing evil seems a little perverse. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z It might have been more compelling, in a perverse, Banksy-an way, to create a version of “Bandersnatch” that ran exactly once for every viewer and then deleted itself. ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “Is that really perverse? I don’t think it’s perverse.” Jeremy Shamos Prepares for ‘The Qualms’ 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z She seemed, he said in explaining the choice, “like a Lolita, but more perverse.” Maria Schneider, Actress in ?Last Tango,? Dies at 58 2011-02-04T05:13:01Z They were highly stylized pictures with off-kilter set designs, innovative cinematography and chiaroscuro lighting that highlighted the nightmarish, dark and often perverse subject matters. LACMA spotlights '20s German Expressionist films 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Like jeans and other trousers cut into a deep V at the front so they seemed perennially unzipped, worn over a variety of bodysuits, like some form of perverse chaps. From Plagues to Floods to Black Tuesday, Fashion Goes On 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z As C.I.A. analysts well knew, this assertion was false; in retrospect, it would also have the perverse effect of turning Mr. Zarqawi into “an international celebrity and the toast of the Islamist movement.” Review: ‘Black Flags,’ Tracing the Birth of ISIS 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z But there was also a perverse plainness to his method. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But the Nature Theater of Oklahoma takes this aesthetic appreciation of everyday discourse to fascinating, funny, even perverse new extremes. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Rough Beauty of Everyday Speech 2013-01-31T22:05:32Z That's what they'll call it one day, the moment Chicago landed a perverse cultural honor and joined an exclusive club for which membership itself serves as a loud, international reminder that your city matters. Trash our city, please! 2011-04-06T23:41:00Z There is a certain perverse pleasure in imagining the world going down in flames. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z If it weren’t so perverse, it wouldn’t be true. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z It held your attention, and when it was perverse, it was just perverse enough. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz and Royal Room Collective at the Stone 2013-05-22T21:46:01Z This creates its own perverse flavor of climate denial: We acknowledge the science but do not truly accept it, at least not enough to urgently act. Apocalypse When? Global Warming’s Endless Scroll 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z So it tops my list of plays of eternal confinement that provide perverse satisfaction when you’re in the right mood. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z This dynamic made satanic sexploitation a doubly perverse genre—“perverse” in its appetites and its effects. Sex at the Satan Club 2014-03-08T00:00:00Z “What’s so perverse,” Mr. George said, is that the houses conceal “the very information necessary to know whether a royalty is due.” Artists File Suit Against Sotheby?s, Christie?s and eBay 2011-11-01T12:00:00Z These passages sometimes devolve into labored imitations of Céline — so willfully perverse and repetitious that they gradually lose their shock value, becoming gratuitously stomach-turning. Review: In ‘More,’ Dispatches From Hell by a Human Trafficker 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Overlooking Seehorn’s subtly devastating performance in the “Breaking Bad” prequel has become a kind of perverse awards show tradition. ‘I May Destroy You’ Is Shut Out by Golden Globes 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z It is possible to appreciate Mr. Zulawski’s perverse ingenuity, and to miss his eye and voice, without quite succumbing to the strenuous charms and overcooked provocations of “Cosmos.” Review: ‘Cosmos’ Is a Madcap Plunge Into Retro Avant-Gardism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The director described how the film, his first with a female lead, allowed him to “live out my perverse dream of being a 16-year old girl, which I think every man has inside them”. As Cannes closes, a new breed of female lead emerges: empowered, careerist –and 'gender-neutral' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But provincial ignorance remains with many white Southerners seeming to take a perverse sort of pride in their lack of knowledge about the wider world. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps this legal sabre-rattling exists as a kind of perverse promotional puff, designed to emphasise the album's magnitude and significance: here is something of such monumental importance it requires a police escort. Goldfrapp: Head First | CD review 2010-03-18T03:30:00Z A new friend of Sam’s is MH, a fierce, super-fit agitator bent on “potential optimization” and “perverse celebration” protesting in expensive togs while dwelling in tony real estate, a designer pose. Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z With Rossini’s radiant late operas receiving ever more respect and attention, it seems increasingly perverse that Stendhal, his first biographer, loudly preferred his early comic works. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z But I suspect it would be a very discerning elementary or middle-school student—or a willfully perverse one—who would chose the old version over the Percy Jackson retelling. The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z In addition to being both gross and quite funny, the movie has a lived-in artisanal charm; although perhaps perverse, there's something truly admirable and creative about the craft applied to such grotesquerie. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Then there is the guy who sends me perverse messages on Twitter. I’m tweeting “The Great Gatsby” 2013-05-10T23:43:00Z But, like the perverse instincts that lurk in the palaces of our minds, this is an appetite that ought to be resisted. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Close's fascination with faces was partly in perverse reaction to a contemporary critic who asserted that an artist could not paint portraits and consider himself modern. 'Chuck Close: Life': The Northwest native painter who brought the portrait back to modern art 2010-05-26T23:49:00Z The historical Cromwell, Mr. Herrin said, is a man “full of brilliant contradictions. He’s incredibly capable, devious, charming, playful, occasionally perverse, sometimes honorable.” Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z They had a gift for perverse double bills. The East Village, Home of Punks and Poets: Here’s a Tour 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z In it, he defined perverse actions as those undertaken when our normal desire for the good—perhaps the moral good, or maybe just the narrower good of self-interest—is reversed. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The other editors warned me, saying their boss took perverse pleasure from smashing the hopes of naive reporters. From ministry to muckraking: The biblical basis for investigative reporting 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The intimate scenes in Weekend and Keep the Lights On highlight how perverse it is that most films about couples neglect this aspect of relationships. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z But the most perverse judgments arise from an unholy hybrid of antiquated British rules and Islamic law: the law against blasphemy. Flowers from the muck 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It would seem perverse to measure the health of a culture by the behaviour of 11 men and a ball. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z He feels a “perverse admiration” for his presentation and admits to himself that Walker’s “powers of rhetoric and invention were dismayingly impressive.” Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z There’s something ironic, if not perverse, in the fact that “Downhill” arrives in theaters just a few days after “Parasite” won the Oscar for best picture. Perspective | On the heels of ‘Parasite’s’ Oscars win for best picture, can we finally jettison the dreaded American remake? 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z What follows is a wonderful, perverse romantic comedy acted out by Mr. Replogle. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z That, too, is a really perverse and interesting film. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z It may seem a little perverse, however, to hand the keys right back over to the person who just totaled the car, so to speak. Ways to Save in 2018 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The righteously perverse individual appreciates the value of rationality, morality, and the good life—and then, chafing against them, chooses another path. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Wright argues that the Gothic offers “unambiguous representations of good and evil” and expresses the “spiritual dissatisfaction with contemporary life … and a slightly perverse nostalgia for a time when mankind knew less and dreamed more.” Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Kit is even more sunnily superficial, a perverse throwback to that standard Western-movie hero, “the affable man with the gun.” Review | Films that offer a surprising reflection of U.S. foreign policy 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In some perverse judiciousness, the magazine gave Kael half a year and had someone else do the rest. The warrior critic: in praise of Pauline Kael 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Earth Wind and Fire When? 1969-1983, 1987-present Claim to greatness: the biggest funk band of all time It seems almost perverse to suggest that Earth Wind and Fire haven't been given their dues. Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z Viewers' horror and repulsion may hide a perverse envy. 2010-01-12T22:25:00Z The pace, which picks up and slows down throughout, is not some kind of perverse challenge to the audience. Review: Jacques Rivette’s 1971 Film, ‘Out 1: Noli Me Tangere’ 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Owing to these elements — as well as the show’s almost perverse determination to soften any sense of conflict — this seems to be a musical better suited to fifth-graders than to anyone older. Review | ‘Snow Child’ at Arena Stage fails to melt hearts 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z He criticized RAD as a “perverse kind of privatization” and recounted a history of failures by the housing authority. A Rebirth in the Bronx: Is This How to Save Public Housing? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s more perverse than that: we prefer not finding women credible. Deadly silence: what happens when we don't believe women 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z This “you” generalizes the experience of an eating disorder until it’s trite, a perverse teenage milestone. Pretending to Play the Violin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Sunday’s ceremony arrived as the cloudy skies over Los Angeles vaguely threatened rain — a perverse break in the sunshine that prevailed in the last week and was scheduled to return on Monday. ?The Artist? and ?The Descendants? Win Golden Globes 2012-01-16T05:19:04Z But that's Readers Recommend for you – always diverting and surprising, even when maddeningly perverse. Readers recommend: songs about mirrors – results 2012-08-16T09:11:32Z Given what happened to the coast of Louisiana, that call seems less plucky than perverse. Television Review: ‘The Newsroom,’ an HBO Series From Aaron Sorkin 2012-06-21T21:29:12Z It is one of the perverse conditions of the business – the majority of them are “tied”, in other words obliged to buy beer through the unchecked middlemanship of whoever owns them. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z That perverse dystopia is brought faithfully to life by director Gary Ross. New DVDs | 'The Hunger Games,' 'The Raid' 2012-08-13T21:28:04Z Brutal and perverse, the clips, some infused with music and subtitles, carry a primeval message stylized for a world wired to social media and hypnotized by an endless pulse of competing images. ISIS and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I have many friends who like this product and happily slather it on their food, and who am I to criticize their perverse palates? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Celebrating the columns you love to hate 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In a perverse way, the old-fashioned leak of a blockbuster album seemed to fit the throwback theme of “Renaissance,” which throbs with the sound of dance music from across the decades. Beyoncé’ Unveils ‘Renaissance,’ the First of Three New Projects 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z His thought experiments, starring the bright youngsters and their perverse master, are dramatized for us at length. Movie Review: ‘After the Dark,’ Directed by John Huddles 2014-02-06T22:15:57Z "It is perverse, for example in Haiti, that there are people sleeping outside in the streets and aid workers step over them to enter the clubs." Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z Is it possible that he was, in some perverse way, flattered by your attentions? Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The perverse depths of their bond remains a tantalizing mystery. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Weird Couple of Days 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Having experienced her share of loss, Hazel takes perverse pleasure in watching people leave. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The hearings have her riveted out of perverse curiosity, mixed with a dash of hope. Meet the fans who follow the Jan. 6 hearings as must-see TV 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z “That it’s also a perverse fantasy about men, women, love and sacrifice makes it all the better.” What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z And then, obviously, because I am perverse, I was put off it by its ubiquity and other people's enthusiasm. JK Rowling should remember that less means more in the Potterverse 2011-08-20T23:05:38Z In a perverse way, the brutal efficiency of these sites could strip illicit drugs of any remaining allure or mystique. Dark net markets: the eBay of drug dealing 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z While stories of mad men feasting on human flesh hold perverse allure, the reality of cannibalism is rarely so pathological. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z It sounds perverse to say it's fun, but it's so interesting. Keira Knightley details her hysteria in "Dangerous Method" 2011-11-22T13:04:52Z Yet there’s a sickly beauty, a perverse toxic uplift, to some of them. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z That seems like such a perverse impulse to me. On ‘Prodigal Son,’ Michael Sheen’s Father Knows, and Kills, Best 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The wealthy collector in “Minor Watt” turns vandalism and destruction into a perverse performance art. Short story collections dive in to this fall Whether easy or extreme, angry reactions may be perverse, but they can feel exhilarating. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The production’s program refers to Wagner’s lifetime as a golden age of experimentation — sometimes world changing, sometimes perverse. Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The book works well despite her decision to adopt an apparently gratuitously perverse approach. The road ahead 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z In his favor: From his unlikely camera setups to the perverse deadpan tone, you can identify a Yorgos Lanthimos film in a matter of seconds. Who Will Be Nominated for Best Director? 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z People broaden Cootie's education, including letting him taste the truth behind perverse commercials for a fast-food joint called Bing Bang Burger, with its sandwiches drooling unappealing sauce. "I'm a Virgo": Boots Riley's incredible, ungentle giant swing at late capitalism 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Even as Olivia emerges as a complicated character — an accomplished novelist with sympathy for her students as well as a surprisingly perverse imagination — she never quite sheds her remote cosmopolitan sheen. Review: ‘The Workshop’ Plunges Into a Class Divided 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s a little perverse, seeing the great ballerina do this, but for her to channel her dramatic powers into these spare, considered gestures feels like real growth. Review: The Virtuoso Sara Mearns Considers Other Virtuosities 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Frank Lawler mugs both sides of the two-faced Tartuffe, but he misses some openings for expressions of perverse slyness. Taproot's 'Tartuffe' has 17th-century setting but a story that resonates today 2012-02-16T21:40:06Z It's perverse to say this about something so bloody, but it goes down like cinematic comfort food. Review: Ben Affleck Goes to Town 2010-09-16T22:10:00Z Pavitt conceded it might "seem strange or perhaps perverse, foolhardy even," for the V&A to put on a big postmodernism show. Postmodernism? London's V&A museum attempts a definition 2011-02-28T17:58:57Z “It creates this perverse lower version of intimacy,” she said. Therapists Are ?Seeing? Patients Online 2011-09-23T21:30:00Z There are also others who revel in a perverse type of glee when police commit acts of thuggery and violence against people of color. Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children, there will be no racial justice in the U.S. 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z “In a perverse way, it gave me a new life.” The Many Layers of Lari Pittman 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Now, in the perverse logic of Russ’s wounded ego, he considers Marion “inseparable from an identity that had proved to be humiliating.” Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s so clumsily told — such a mishmash of allusions, filched plot points and hurried developments — that it’s never even convincing as a perverse buddy movie/on-the-road tale. Denis Johnson’s New Novel, ‘The Laughing Monsters’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z But it wasn’t the tally that gave Jack his perverse immortality. More than 125 years after his last crime, Jack the Ripper remains a mystery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But after the hardly less dense and even more sober Fourth on Saturday, the Prelude to Act III of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” seemed an almost perverse choice, doing little to refresh the palate. Review: Vienna Philharmonic’s Familiar and Fierce Show of Brahms 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Medicare doesn’t cover catastrophic costs, forcing many seniors to buy supplemental Medigap plans for their own protection, and giving providers perverse incentives to favor expensive hospitalizations over more efficient outpatient care. Burr-Coburn: The Best Medicare Reform Proposal Yet 2012-02-16T16:01:02Z When Negan meets Rick and a group of his allies, he plays a perverse game of “duck, duck, goose” which ends fatally for Glenn. 'The Walking Dead': Who Is Negan? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z That it's probably all done with guitars, heavily treated, just reminds you what a perverse talent Shields is. My Bloody Valentine: m b v – review 2013-02-10T00:05:03Z It is not a heritage act running through a hardened iconography; it’s a good rush, but perverse, wriggly and hard to reduce. Mark E. Smith Shows His Staying Power 2010-04-30T19:55:00Z She is particularly awesome in the film’s torture scenes, in which Sue Ann makes perverse use of skills she might have learned in home economics. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In “Spiral,” his catchphrase — “I want to play a game” — is delivered in a digitally distorted voice that sounds like what a perverse and unforgiving psycho would sound like. What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z His 1963 thriller, “Shock Corridor” — strictly speaking perhaps more of a loony-bin picture than a newspaper picture — turns a reporter’s investigative zeal into a perverse cautionary tale. Film: The Newspaper Picture: A Genre Explored at Film Forum 2010-04-08T21:41:00Z This, DeRisi said, removes the “perverse incentive” for scientists to become risk-averse, as researchers look to meet goal posts for their next round of funding. Ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to combat disease is about to be tested 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Many critics, on the other hand, find such moralising fanatical and perverse. The lives of moral saints 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Jacobs has done something perverse with a symbol of professionalism, conservatism, and get-ahead careerism. On the Runway Blog: Marc Jacobs: Sex Talk in a Straight Package 2012-09-11T03:30:21Z He is no longer just the arch mannerist, the etiolated epigone of Michelangelo, perverse and stylised in equal measure. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z My excerpts from Steve Toltz’s second novel could have the perverse effect of encouraging readers to acquire “Quicksand” at once, when — spoiler alert — this is a tepid review. ‘Quicksand’ review: A zany, and trying, tale of a man who can’t catch a break 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z She’s been through that mill, and it was only perverse doggedness that prevented her from being ground to powder. Review | Raised in a cult, Lauren Hough’s salvation was the discovery of her own inimitable voice 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Taken with a perverse impulse, D’Ardelo suddenly lets on, quite untruthfully, that he is suffering from cancer and probably has only months to live. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Wilson’s play is a window into the ways our country’s perverse economics make even one’s trauma psychologically too pricey to keep. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z And that may be why, in some mildly perverse way, one might enjoy pining for the types of concerns that obsess these creatures of the night. "What We Do In the Shadows" was a vampire comedy. Now it's a feel-good show about quarantine life 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Something perverse has taken hold in recent years in mainstream attitudes about support for the arts: a sense among many, and especially those in national policymaking circles, that the arts are a luxury. Arts workers are building a labor movement to save a creative economy in peril 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s hard to explain, scientifically, what Edgar Allen Poe described as “the imp of the perverse.” The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Growing up in rural Ohio outside Coshocton, population 11,000, Loveless says feeling like an outcast was inspiring in a perverse kind of way. Lydia Loveless: Defiance on the farm 2011-11-22T17:10:00Z Milking our collective cultural memory — while demonstrating a perverse selective memory of his own — constitutes stratospheric cynicism, or perhaps, a professional death rattle. How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z And the perverse affliction of homicidal celebrity hasn’t gone away in the quarter-century since Stone mounted his demented satire. Natural Born Killers at 25: the problem with Oliver Stone's hit film 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z At its best, that’s the sort of vivid, perverse political imagery that “Describe the Night” feasts on. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z What she goes on to describe is, if you think about it, a perverse variation of Theseus’ paradox. In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Those opposing forces made the music perverse sometimes, but not incoherent, especially with all the consonance and resolution Mr. Allison wrote into the songs and the binding grooves he made with Ms. Miller. Music Review: Ben Allison’s Band Performs at Joe’s Pub 2013-12-05T23:36:58Z Perhaps some such voters are simply too perverse to really be intelligible. Review | Let’s face it, we all have the capacity to be mean. ‘Spite’ explores why that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z “He’s kind of perverse, he’s kind of a creep, he’s somewhat amoral,” Mr. Parnell said. Television: Chris Gethard Carries Comedy Central?s ?Big Lake? 2010-08-13T17:38:00Z So, add perverse shoes among all that innocence — the heel like a nail piercing the foot — or transparent plastic boots. Hermès: Gentle End to Hectic Week 2014-03-05T18:19:30Z It’s by far his most generous and perverse gesture of the night. Everyday Zen: On the road with Willie Nelson at 81 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The dancers stopped dead still, only to start up again in perverse leaping. Jan Martens Brings Cheeky Dances to the Abrons Arts Center 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z “We tend to think of racism and slavery as something that’s appropriate only for black artists to engage with, and there’s something troubling and perverse about that.” In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z In this panoramic vista of humans, animals, birds, near-humans and strawberries, a gastronomical delicacy of the time, the pleasures depicted are often perverse, humiliating and painful, as befits the human condition. Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z It might just be a cry for attention from someone with a warped, perverse sense of humor. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “I’m bored and willful and perverse,” she says ruefully, “at least according to Wikipedia.” Must she die? In Victory Theatre's funny 'Resolving Hedda,' an Ibsen character tries to defy fate 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The joke was an inside one: a perverse metaphor for the miseries of genre writers who want to be taken seriously. ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Given that he’s a fixture of hip-hop radio, making an album this outré demonstrates a perverse sense of confidence, and also ignores the received wisdom about consistency and incremental change. Music: Drake?s ?Take Care? Goes to Moody Places 2011-11-16T15:30:13Z No such spirit of generosity informs “West of Zanzibar,” one of Browning’s most deliriously perverse works. Lon Chaney DVDs: ‘The Blackbird,’ ‘Tell It to the Marines’ 2012-06-01T21:55:22Z Like many of Ms. Huppert’s screen characters, Maud is an imperious, willful woman with a perverse drive to play with fire. ‘Abuse of Weakness’ Stars Isabelle Huppert and Kool Shen 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z That almost sounds reasonable until you realize that it adds up to 18 hours, and the notation — without meter, without key signature and with a needlessly fussy use of accidentals — is simply perverse. Make Music New York: ‘Vexations’ at Make Music New York 2012-06-23T00:17:00Z The press notes for “House” state that the story originated from the “eccentric musings” of his 11-year-old daughter, a nice, perverse touch. 2010-01-15T04:07:00Z Amid such tragedies, it may seem perverse, not to say tasteless, to talk of comedy. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It sounds rather perverse and archaic today to call a child born by IVF a “test-tube baby”. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z But casting real, live actors in these roles almost seemed a perverse touch. 'Clash of the Titans': Fantasy without wings 2010-04-01T06:37:00Z It would fun to look for a perverse joke in here, but we’ve covered that already. Review | Taylor Swift really can’t help herself 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z There’s something perverse about this, I thought when I found Achilles and Patroclus preparing for battle a few minutes in. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The enduring mystery of “Island of Lost Souls” is how these variously perverse elements were so well and suggestively blended together by Erle C. Kenton, a director known mainly for comedies. DVD: New on Blu-ray: Erle C. Kenton?s ?Island of Lost Souls? 2011-10-22T02:53:02Z So there’s a perverse charm to the increasing number of music festivals that provide live streams, which turn a festival into its opposite: a private, casual, controlled, perhaps even quiet experience. What to Do This Weekend 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Another guest confides a smutty sexual quirk, and then his disgusted wife is introduced to the childlike female playmate who meets her spouse’s perverse needs. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z These set pieces carry a perverse kick, and the three actors come shockingly close to making it all seem plausible. Theater Review: ?Botanica,? a Drama Directed by Jim Findlay 2012-02-15T21:56:25Z A perverse psychological fable of unchecked ego and unhinged desire. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z At City Opera, her Xerxes, so bewitching at first appearance, whipped around to deliver an up-against-the-wall tirade in "You are spiteful, perverse, and insulting." Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z "I got a perverse enjoyment from it," he says. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z Certainly — one of the perverse pleasures of this novel is watching Franzen defend himself without overtly defending himself. In 'Purity,' Jonathan Franzen confronts his — and our — demons 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Their efforts to help him, though rooted in charity, dovetail with a perverse brand of narcissism, which Osborne captures with a sharp eye. New in Paperback: ‘Priestdaddy,’ ‘The Golden Legend’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Then there are instances where it would be perverse to translate a term which has become familiar in its foreign form. Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z In a perverse way, covering conflict allows Barker to escape her problems. 'The Taliban Shuffle': Kim Barker's unforgettable memoir of journalism in Afghanistan 2011-04-21T21:48:04Z This perverse twist on “transparency” is a core theme of “The Circle.” How ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘The Circle’ help explain our love-hate-can’t-live-without relationship with technology 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z This is a place, governed by the playful and perverse sensibility of the dramatist and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, where the picturesque and the profane intermingle, where jaunty humor keeps company with gruesome violence. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z But the information Jones disperses has a tangibly pernicious effect, making it feel all the more perverse that the whole thing would be Jones’ attempt at art. Could Alex Jones possibly be a brilliant artist? 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The more deep-green eco-catastrophists of our time even seem to take a certain perverse pleasure in predicting that, one day, wise old Gaia will find a way to rid herself entirely of the human infection. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z The perverse narrative function of the menace stalking Angela is to swoop in like a deus ex machina, attempting in vain to rescue the play. Review: In ‘Natural Shocks,’ a Storm Is Coming 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Well, “Elastic Heart” is even more emotional and perhaps even more perverse. Watch Shia LaBeouf in a Nude Leotard in the New Sia Video for 'Elastic Heart' 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Mosher, who oversaw the superb revival of Arthur Miller’s “View From the Bridge” last season, isn’t about to undermine this drama’s perverse comfort factor. | 'That Championship Season': The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation?s Scars 2011-03-07T03:01:04Z “There’s a perverse satisfaction in taking a tiny moment and blowing it up to the size of a movie screen and making people watch it.” O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z No one finds comedy in the perverse with more ingenuity. Review: Louis C.K., Performing His Best Stand-Up Since 2010 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Part of the thrill of rewatching Lyne’s old movies is that the sexual politics are the most perverse thing about them. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z True, in 60-plus episodes, it has featured many shocking scenes of perverse predilections, inappropriate liaisons and degrading outcomes. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent' 2013-01-10T19:00:00Z Stephen E. Strom’s eloquent “Bears Ears: Views From a Sacred Land” is perhaps a more palatable picture book — if not also in its own way a perverse bummer, another chronicling of territory taken by force. Three Volumes of Nature Photography Take Us Back to Earth’s Innocent Roots 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z And that would be a shame, as well as perverse. I stood up for the national anthem by sitting down for it 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z But then again the whole point of the movie is the scaling down of expectations to arrive at something like an accurate sense of scale, and disappointment may be a perverse sign of success. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z That sex is chaotic, mad, perverse, risible, enlivening and inspiring, and that in its awkwardness and self-consciousness there might be more real contact than in the simple following of positions, doesn't occur to the author. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z If one were forced to name Oldman’s greatest contribution to cinema, it would not be perverse to pick this film, in which he is vividly present without once showing his face. Gary Oldman: will Churchill prove to be his finest hour? | The Observer profile 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z In looking back on his earlier self, growing up in poverty in the Bronx, Hart captured the desperation, egotism, self-consciousness, illusionism and perverse certainty that made his escape possible. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z It contains perverse passages in which the artist has digitally “corrected” the floor, chair and curtains to create visual jokes reminiscent of how Cubists hijacked painting’s system of illusionism a century ago. Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Like his recent masterpiece, “The Overstory,” which won a Pulitzer Prize, “Bewilderment” deplores humanity’s destruction of the environment and the perverse incentives that make our descent toward universal suicide so difficult to stop. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The collars alone, with their bold curlicues in white lace, marked the difference between last season’s perverse play on maids and the dainty dresses for spring/summer 2012. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs and the Louis Vuitton Merry-Go-Round 2011-10-05T18:17:17Z He also made a radical, even perverse, suggestion of how the Port Authority might save money. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Still, “Assassins” finds a gallows humor that’s almost charming — I told you it’s perverse — in this creepy cabaret of the dispossessed. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The character is prickly, slightly perverse and definitely an oddball, which puts him pretty squarely in Hart's wheelhouse. Kevin Hart: Five movie roles you probably forgot about 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Also one of the most confounding – perverse and hard to fathom. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z That’s all fine, and smart, and perverse in a good way. Music Review: Dawn of Midi Plays New Songs at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-09-04T21:30:43Z I'd rather say that Caravaggio was homicidal, psychotic and perverse – and artistically at least he was all the better for it. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z But in a perverse twist, a growing number of male celebrities are finding that stripping may be a solid way to resuscitate a career as well. Noticed: Male Stripping Hits the Mainstream 2012-05-23T22:28:53Z There could be more slyly perverse fare where that came from. 'I Am Number Four': Smart, funny actioner tracks teenage alien runaways 2011-02-16T19:10:04Z Attending a final performance is less of a problem, if a bit perverse. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: from preview to last night 2012-10-29T17:11:40Z In “The Nether” she constructs a perverse electronic underworld of the future, rendered even more unsettlingly because it’s a destination of perceptible serenity and beauty. “The Nether”: A clever, strange and scary look at online morality 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z This series grafted corporeal, sexualised imagery on to the machinery of war, but like the Codex Artaud it played a perverse game with conventional gender roles. Nancy Spero: no pity 2011-02-26T00:07:34Z It was also a perverse display of commitment made by determined political activists. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Notes on a Scandal While many dismissed it as a lurid potboiler, there’s something commendably mean-spirited about this perverse thriller. Cate Blanchett: five best moments 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z He’s exploring the perverse necessity of anti-Semitism in human culture. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future In a perverse way, the narrower social circles we inhabited might be more instinctively human than our promiscuous networks of “friends” fueled by social media. We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?) 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Hays, stationed beside a rocky outcrop, was playing a Wurlitzer electric piano — refreshingly, given the day’s preponderance of battery-powered synthesizers — with an introspective focus that bordered on the perverse. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z Each one that I did not find attractive seemed to be proof that I was not gay, which I knew was a perverse test, but one that was easy to buy into. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Walker Percy described Ignatius as a “slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.” Patricia Lockwood Is a Priest’s Child (Really), but ‘From the Devil’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z I hope you don’t find this perverse, but I kind of missed Saul. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Only her husband's unconsciousness allows for a perverse intimacy, since she has never before kissed him on the lips. The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z Big Star’s “Third” was a dark, estranged album, very much a product of the studio and Mr. Chilton’s mood: cynical, druggy, perverse but also yearning. Music Review: A Musician?s Musician Receives His Tribute 2011-03-28T00:51:23Z In a perverse twist made believable by the surrealism of war and by the persuasiveness of the lead performances, Danijel takes Ajla as his lover. | 'In the Land of Blood and Honey': Angelina Jolie?s ?In the Land of Blood and Honey? - Review 2011-12-22T23:54:23Z We are never allowed a moment of perverse awe for the murderer. These Gay Men Frequented Manhattan Piano Bars. So Did Their Killer. 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z This sort of perverse preference might seem like a contrived philosophical scenario. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Indeed, the most perverse effect of the extreme rarefaction of good art is that consignors count on it to achieve quick mark-ups and obtain extravagant prices. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z They are perverse in their complications, their studied theatricality. Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck 2011-07-22T00:34:23Z Since you can probably catch somewhere around the world any time of the year, it is perverse to think of it as a seasonal opera. La bohème; Koyaanisqatsi/Britten Sinfonia; Der fliegende Holländer – review 2012-12-23T00:09:28Z That town is Cleveland, which was wearing its haplessness on the athletic field as a perverse badge of honor long before LeBron James stabbed the city in the heart on live television. | Comic Book Theater Festival: It?s a Convention of Superheroes, Taking Over a Stage and a Nearby Van 2011-06-21T21:30:35Z “The inside was a labyrinth,” says Ferruccio Ferragamo, noting a perverse stroke of preservationist’s luck: “Buildings untouched for 100 years are easier to restore.” Ferruccio Ferragamo 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z Do you get a perverse pleasure when people tell you they hate your music? Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z It would be perverse to say this was one of the highlights of the residency. The world's best orchestra 2011-02-27T00:04:15Z He thinks Mr Thiel did something wrong that is how perverse the British mindset is. ‘The Crown’ Episodes 1 and 2: Stiff Lips, Warm Heart 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He sets out to make a series of “perverse pilgrimages” to places where the end “could be glimpsed.” ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But the FDA faces a set of perverse incentives. Two Ideas That Will Turbocharge the FDA, Part I 2011-11-09T13:21:40Z "He was conceptualised variously, or in combination, as obsessional, hysterical, paranoid and schizoid; a malingerer, manipulator and fantasist; highly neurotic; dissociated and confused; perverse and phobic." The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z In many ways, some of them perverse, Birdsong is a story of intimacy. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-22T21:55:12Z The way that the end of the theatre so neatly coincided with the death of Dan has made the entire experience seem emotionally perverse. The Shuttered Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Is a Cultural Crime Scene 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Demand’s film choices are just as inspired, ranging from Tacita Dean’s meditative sequences of pears fermenting in a glass jar and magpies rustling bare tree branches, to Ger Van Elk’s wonderfully perverse “Well-Shaven Cactus.” Art Review: Out-Magritting Magritte, or at Least Coming Close 2011-08-11T21:37:51Z What distinguishes "Troll 2" and its ignominious ilk from run-of-the-mill failures is the sheer scale of their awfulness, a level of misconception and malexecution so profound that it inspires a perverse kind of awe. "Best Worst Movie": The cult of the truly bad film 2010-05-14T20:12:00Z Eklof subsequently inverts revenge conventions in a way that dares the audience to call it perverse. ‘Holiday’ Review: Sun and Fun on the Turkish Riviera, Then a Lot Less Fun 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The whole thing seemed brilliant one moment, perverse the next: to capitalize on one’s own offense, to critique the state of performance by performing mostly for other performers in a room inside a room. ‘Ann Liv Young in Jail’ for Crimes Against Performance 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z His spare, meticulous sentences lend a perverse beauty to even the most brutal passages of the novel and give immediacy and emotional heft to the ordeals of its characters. Slavery’s Repercussions Unspool in a Dark Southern Tale 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Lowery turns the moral and dramatic heat down to the faintest simmer, as if conducting a perverse genre experiment. Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z In her work, she brings a perverse sensibility to the baroque kitsch fantasy-land where she grew up, along with an historian’s fascination with various art forms. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z Next to those iterations of familiar formulas, the Ted-Talk-on-Red-Bull approach of “Vice” and perverse power plays of “The Favourite” are like so many tart, anarchic apples bumping up against satisfying but familiar oranges. Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Early on, Wake strips — as if to bathe in the lighthouse’s radiance — and the story takes a turn for the amusingly perverse as trouble starts creeping around the edges. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z While it would be perverse to romanticise a world of homosexual abjection, I'll always be grateful for Maurice's ode to the greenwood. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z The approach is a seemingly perverse anomaly in this day and age. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z But mainly these pieces build on the vocabularies of body-oriented Surrealist types — young Dali, Yves Tanguy, Hans Bellmer and Balthus — abstracting them into suggestive three-dimensional shapes that seem both benign and perverse. Tunga: ‘From “La Voie Humide” ’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z But Ms. Wade’s research, drawn from data she personally collected and a range of supplementary sources, does convey exceptionally well the perverse callousness of hookup culture. Review: ‘American Hookup’ Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z His hour of rigorously insensitive, finely crafted comedy feels like penance for a betrayal of a perverse artistic conscience. Political Correctness Isn’t Ruining Comedy. It’s Helping. 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The quips literally add insult to injury, defaming the victim immediately after their demise, emblazoning the death with a caption, like a perverse eulogy. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z But even after I left the party behind, I nursed a perverse appetite for Republican media personalities and the ideological struggles of the American right. QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z There is a “perverse beauty of the dead”, he writes. Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z Skewing strongly toward American and British animators — and with death and decline as persistent motifs — the collection embraces ideas both silly and surreal, poignant and perverse. Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Is he a person sent by a perverse universe to torment and humiliate Simon, or is he a projection of Simon’s own desperate and disordered mind? Movie Review: ‘The Double,’ a Brainteaser From Richard Ayoade 2014-05-08T21:07:49Z I see her as quietly, and quiet willfully, reckless, perhaps as a perverse provocation to the world around her. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z The Frog Prince A poor girl weds a frog who’s a prince, how perverse, Since what usually what happens in life’s the reverse. Style Invitational Week 1436: Haven’t seen it — new plots for movie titles 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s a little perverse that there’s so little dancing in “Crowd.” ‘Crowd’ Review: A Slow-Motion Rave, With Glints of Violence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Jude’s tribulations do seem to have been gratuitously inflicted on him by a perverse intelligence. Hanya Yanagihara’s “Sex and the City” 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z There was also something perverse about the way the student was portrayed, simultaneously, as a sneaky anonymous online force and also an attention-seeker eager to go on live TV. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Instead, the story shifts and lumbers toward redemption that Earl doesn’t earn and that sentimentalizes a movie that is never especially good and often teasingly offensive but also fitfully entertaining and willfully perverse. ‘The Mule’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Very Strange Drug Trip 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But this fate is a theatrical device to reveal the perverse inner working of ambition and the prospects of power. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z In a perverse way, I did care about her peace of mind, but only because it was a kind of motion sensor stopping me going to the fridge as often as I wanted. 'I quit my job. Drink gushed into the space I left for it': confessions of an alcoholic 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z But “Marie and Bruce,” which is being revived at Brooklyn’s Jack, is considerably more perverse than most stories. Review: In ‘Marie and Bruce,’ It Takes Two to Do This Nihilistic Tango 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z With our media consumption habits and obsession with sex, we still have a perverse, tortured relationship with accepting that. While sexual attitudes change, society's objectification of famous young women remains 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Within that possibility is the most perverse fantasy I have ever read. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “They were so extreme and so perverse,” Lunch said with awe. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z It is an easy target, a perverse distillation of all the self-regard and self-absorption ascribed to what’s often called the millennial generation. The Year of the Imaginary College Student 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z But it's a calculated artistic decision that makes unsettling, perverse sense. 'The Devil's Double' captures horror of Hussein son's look-alike 2011-08-04T20:00:06Z Especially against the backdrop of this election, Mr. Thompson said, the project made a kind of perverse sense in 2016, the centennial of the birth of the Dada art movement. ‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Rather they are another awkward element in this disappointing and often perverse novel. Books of The Times: Yann Martel?s ?Beatrice and Virgil,? a Holocaust Allegory 2010-04-12T21:20:00Z All are fine choices, but it would be perverse to eat food cooked with mezcal, or at least with mezcal in mind, and not drink any. Smoke in the Mexican Food and Fire in the Mezcal 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The offshoot thread’s ultimate offense was its perverse privacy, which tried to warp a public pleasure into a restrictive, hateful privilege. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Juggling Primal Conflicts of Innocence and Sin Mesmerizing, mysterious, willfully perverse, the Mexican movie “Post Tenebras Lux” opens with two scenes, one realistic, the other fantastical. Movie Review: ‘Post Tenebras Lux,’ Directed by Carlos Reygadas 2013-04-30T21:31:18Z The work springs from what the two men once called a kind of perverse post-Enlightenment desire, particularly European, “to attempt the encyclopedic and at the same time run it aground.” Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Is it perfect timing or merely perverse to release a documentary promoting the design philosophy “Less, but better” during the holiday season? What We’ve Learned from Dieter Rams, and What We’ve Ignored 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Indeed we do this as instinctively as we meet the eyes of a stranger when they walk into the room; not to do so strikes me as perverse, and denies a sound human instinct. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Two summers later, with the #MeToo movement having exploded in the interim, it seemed time to say that “Shrew,” for all its perverse pleasures, should be left alone, in either of that phrase’s meanings. Review: Taming ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Under a Tent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Before the bodies start piling up, they act as if they’re in a dark, perverse comedy about parenthood. ‘Brightburn’ Review: What if He Doesn’t Use His Powers for Good? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Serial killers who rely on especially perverse or eccentric techniques tend to fascinate the public the most. A True-Crime Veteran on Our Fascination with Serial Killers 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The fellow from “The Gift of the Magi” gets a perverse kick out of his wife’s newly androgynous hairdo. | 'Looking at Christmas': Holiday Windows Dress Up a Romance 2010-12-07T16:48:00Z From this program and the others in the company’s City Center run, a viewer new to Taylor might not realize how dark, perverse and radical he could be. Review: The Paul Taylor Company Returns With a New Voice 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Visitors with a stake in art-as-uplift will find the story it tells mystifying, if not perverse. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z “What principle could justify such an obviously perverse situation?” The pandemic is testing the generosity of billionaires, according to a Washington Post survey of the 50 richest Americans 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z While it might seem odd for people who are already terrified to choose to relax watching more horror, there's a perverse logic to it. At New York Comic Con, horror TV shows strength and stamina 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z In another notable, almost perverse breach of their repressed familial dynamics, Sultan recounts that he once sneaked into his parents’ bedroom while his mother was sleeping and began to photograph the underside of her foot. How Larry Sultan Made His Father a Metaphor for Dashed American Dreams 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Over the decades, though, I realized is that one of 2001’s perverse strengths is its demonstration that not every movie needs to snuggle up to viewers, or kick them in the gut. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z And it feels politically disingenuous, like yet another blandly perverse attempt to envision inhabitants of the world's dominant military power as scrappy underdogs, valiantly fighting for freedom against technologically superior foes. Close encounters of a tired kind 2011-06-19T21:20:00Z Kells goes on a quest through the oddly perverse world of booksellers and bibliographers, in search of Shakespeare’s own tomes. That Man From Stratford 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z “It was spectacular, perverse, uplifting, beautifully horrifying and deeply transgressive,” Mr. Deitch said of that particular evening, in a New Yorker profile. A Risk-Taker?s Debut 2011-04-22T22:34:11Z In many ways it was a perverse program choice for the occasion. Music Review: A Celebration of Orchestral Excellence at Spring for Music 2014-05-06T09:39:39Z In essence, this was a demand that justice for Liang required that a perverse and very powerful type of white privilege be fully extended to Asian-Americans as well. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z They seem to get a perverse thrill from mortifying you. On a Shockingly Casual Case of Sexual Assault 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z There’s something cosmically perverse about the fact that a president whose reading habits, by all accounts, are practically nonexistent has inspired a deluge of books about his tenure in the White House. How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z This particular perverse continuity is a feature of the Trump era. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But there's also a commentary on society's perverse fascination with reality television. Amnesty teen takeover: Sara Grant's top 10 books that entertain and inspire 2012-08-22T11:19:10Z However, as Bergen shows, the transformation of domestic jihadism has not only dispersed the Islamist terrorist threat but in a perverse process of cultural intermingling has partly Americanized jihad itself. What drives Americans to join the jihad? The book 'United States of Jihad' explains 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z His focus, too, on the West seems perverse in our globalized era, when we all have become more conscious of the complexity of interactions between cultures throughout history. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Like many Shepard plays, “Simpatico” operates according to what might be called a perverse buddy system, in which twinned, seemingly dissimilar characters gradually change places and roles. Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Simpatico,’ Cut Loose and Roaming Wild 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “It was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly,” she writes. This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Over the course of her great film and theatrical career, the distinctive star never met a perverse character she couldn’t wrench into believable shape and substance. Isabelle Huppert's rape non-victim makes Elle a perversely compulsive film 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He takes perverse pride in a rare failure: an article on army slang that he sent to George Orwell at Tribune magazine was turned down flat. Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z This slim volume is fresh, perverse and disconcerting. Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by Frank Wedekind 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z “Nekrotzar’s head decoration is taken from here,” Ms. Zuber added, pointing to spiky vegetation in the polymorphously perverse “Garden of Earthly Delights.” Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z Syllable by syllable, it transported me back to the city where I spent my 20s and developed a perverse love for the broad “a” and the tough-sounding transmutation of “the” into “duh.” A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z It would have looked perverse amid the kitsch excesses of The Greatest Showman, where Ferguson played the opera singer Jenny Lind. Rebecca Ferguson on Mission: Impossible – ‘Tom says he makes the films for the audience. I don’t’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “There are these passages where they are squeezing the whale blubber that are so perverse,” she said recently in Zurich, where she lives. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Sure; taken as a group, they have something to say about the perverse, warping incentives of the modern economy. On TV, the Truth Hurts 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Katie Hopkins personifies the perverse pride the narcissist takes in not caring for others. Me! Me! Me! Are we living through a narcissism epidemic? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But it's equally worthy to grasp the extent of the perverse trickle-down effect corruption has in this world, and for some of us, that takes a pause for discussion and a hard think. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z This could in itself become something of a bore, an act of perverse self-aggrandisement, like one of Monty Python's Yorkshiremen, but Harrison's eloquence is itself so master-craftsmanlike that all objections are blown away. Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z I admire young people who set out to live in concert with their feelings and inspiration, with their immediate responses to our culture, which can be deadening and perverse. What is punk? 2013-05-10T00:00:00Z The book, “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho,’ ” is a fast, diverting read that, true to its title, tracks how the master of suspense, sometimes with surprising effort, made his influential, perverse shocker. Movie Review: ‘Hitchcock,’ With Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren 2012-11-22T22:23:25Z It is a global disease of our time – the idea of consumerism, this perverse thing. On the Runway: Q & A: Christophe Lemaire of Herm?s 2011-03-07T18:56:16Z For that reason and so many others, it’s always been perverse to think of rock musicians as gods — yet sonic acts of godly power were in abundance at this festival. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Which, in some perverse way, makes Draper the most upright man there is, a brave independent surrounded by stuffed shirts and yes-men. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z It's typically perverse that, at the time of his death, Ruiz wasn't working on a small chamber piece but a full-blown epic. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z In Alison Anderson’s brisk, colloquial translation from the French, “Life Form” fuses the sincere with the subversive to tell a story as winning as it is perverse. ‘Life Form’: a fan’s notes to a novelist 2013-02-06T23:32:45Z No other culture has anything like it and many people in non-Western countries still find it strange and perverse. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The perverse ideal of the perfect victim pervades the book. The Irrepressibly Political Survivorship of Chanel Miller 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z To be between greatness and inarticulacy, and to not care either way, takes a perverse sort of courage. Edvard Munch: a head for horror 2012-06-25T17:30:01Z "Nero was in power, probably the worst of the Caesars. He became progressively bloodthirsty and took perverse pleasure in torturing and murdering followers of Jesus Christ." Want to know what happiness is? Pastor Greg Laurie shares one key secret 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s as perverse as a parent harshly grounding a misbehaving teen before tossing her out of the house. Reggae star Buju Banton’s long walk to freedom 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z For me that weakness provides a perverse sort of hope: Ruscha remains an elusive artist and Los Angeles an elusive city, each of them slippery to the last. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z This is one of the more perverse strands of arrogance. Patrick Melrose captures heroin addiction perfectly – my memories flooded back | John Crace 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z This painting is closely related to the church’s architecture, designed by Andrea Palladio, and is a “site-specific installation” in today’s art lingo, making its translation to the Gardens seems somewhat perverse. Art: Venice Biennale Thrives Despite Tough Economic Times 2011-06-06T12:30:05Z Picasso’s blocky nudes of around 1906 respond, clearly enough, to the physical awkwardness and perverse sensuality of Degas’s crouched bathers. Art Review: Who?s the Voyeur Now, Picasso? 2010-08-26T22:37:00Z It is the perverse, insistent, matter-of-factness of male sexual predation and assault — of men’s power over women — that haunts the revelations about Mr. Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z “Olive” is her answer to an industry and a society that she finds perverse in their fixation on youth. Frances McDormand, True to Herself in HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z At the end of any physical, after being told my lungs sounded pink, I derived perverse delight from admitting I smoked weed 20 times a day. Confessions of a pot addict 2013-02-18T02:00:00Z This is what American culture does: It normalizes that which is perverse and perverts that which is normal. "Neighbors From Hell": The perversion of the suburbs, unleashed! 2010-05-29T23:01:00Z It’s somehow perverse that an artist this prime for discussion is given nothing but monotonous praise, while his work is treated as an afterthought. Review: ‘Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait’ Puts Praise Above Art 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The Newhalls found his photos and philosophy "perverse" and in bad taste. 'American Grotesque' resurrects William Mortensen's photos 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z We learn about the perverse phenomenon wherein people spend weeks texting or messaging potential partners and then just stop texting altogether, “without actually going on a date.” Review: Aziz Ansari’s ‘Modern Romance’ Explores Dating in the Digital Age 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Trump’s insistence on vilifying immigrants has, in some perverse ways, only shown how dependent we are on each other. The Sriracha Argument for Immigration 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z All the same, in ambiguous times, there’s a perverse ecstasy in watching the vagueness and vagaries of others embodied with such triumphant precision by a theater-drunk playwright and his players. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In addition to the prevalence of what she called “in-jokes” about the art world, Mr. Waters’s taste in art tends, unsurprisingly, toward the perverse, the ironic and the cheerfully nihilistic. John Waters, Droll Bard of Baltimore, Promises Art to Hometown Museum 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “With the merciful You are merciful, with the upright You are upright. / With the pure You are pure, and with the perverse You are subtle.” Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Movies are a constant topic of conversation, with the techniques and fashion tips of Hollywood's outlaw icons providing perverse inspiration for hustlers whose mantra is that "gangster" means "free man". The Act of Killing – review 2013-06-29T23:05:24Z Three songs into the show, the house lights still on, the time had come for “Dire Wolf,” but with a perverse twist no one had anticipated. “I won’t see the end of the year”: Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead’s final shows 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z This may be a perverse response, but I enjoyed “Age of Ultron” more than its predecessor, despite the fact that it’s almost exactly the same thing. Joss Whedon’s doomed struggle: “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and superhero cinema’s decadent phase 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s a fun-with-physics show with a perverse streak: Each episode validates a scientific principle by putting the host, Todd Sampson, in a situation that seems as if it might kill him. Review: ‘Outrageous Acts of Danger’ Makes Science Life-Threatening 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable – not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way. Privacy settings engaged 2010-10-14T21:00:00Z In an act of perverse alchemy, Griff managed to make one of the most vibrant cities in the world look dead. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z The pursuit of virtue seems almost perverse, given how well other series have done by focusing on the underbelly of politics. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z She’ll keep you watching and interested as you follow her through this perverse, provocative story about women, their appetites and a world that barbarically tries to control them both. ‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z As humanity shambles on, the artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas takes up the question again, but from a perverse angle: a tech start-up spun off a defeated revolution. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Josh Trank knew what was coming — and, in a slightly perverse way, he welcomed it. Josh Trank works to defy 'Fantastic Four's' doomsayers 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z There was something perverse about the cult of virility. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z They played Merriweather for the first time two years later, though in typically perverse Animal Collective fashion, few songs from that album actually made it into their set. From Jimi and Janis to assorted festivals, 50 years at Merriweather Post 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z It's no secret at this point that reality TV is a genre built on the perverse pageantry of degradation. "Real Housewives'" child exploitation 2010-05-31T18:01:00Z The audacious idea of decorating a techno fabric like neoprene showed a perverse sensibility, as did panne velvet with pleating. Dark Opulence and Red Carpet 2014-03-03T20:19:27Z A few are so ungainly or candidly perverse they may be better suited for coffee table display. Art’s New Perch: Your Neck, Not Your Wall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Those details can make “Ema” play at times like a perverse horror movie. ‘Ema’ Review: Maternal Flame 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Krasinski had a perverse and absurd approach to living and performing the role of the artist that doesn't come across here. A Bigger Splash: did performance art change painting? 2012-11-12T19:00:05Z Such perverse situations, according to Polman, stem from the issue of neutrality. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z While stories mad men feasting on human flesh hold perverse allure, the reality of cannibalism is rarely so pathological. Our cannibalism obsession 2012-06-06T03:59:00Z In a rally of wisdom and courage, his turnabout of boyhood triumph is spot on in bringing about a jubilantly perverse Christmas miracle. 'Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale': Better watch out, evil Santa is coming to this town 2010-12-09T20:41:00Z I felt absurd and slightly ashamed – as if I was doing something perverse that shouldn’t be seen. How running cured my anxiety – and a broken heart 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z But what gets banned in China is perverse and unpredictable—and rarely explained, which leads to executives struggling to avoid subjects for which there are no easy rules. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z “It’s perverse on the one hand; he could sit with something for 20 years.” Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z But the result is “ironically, what conservatives have consistently accused Facebook of doing to them,” Jeffery wrote, “with the perverse but entirely intended effect of causing it to bend over backwards for them instead.” Perspective | Pro-Trump voices have Mark Zuckerberg’s ear. Is that why Facebook undermines liberal news sites? 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Muslims are not a monolithic, Borg-like collective, who possess a shared consciousness, specializing in counter-terrorism knowledge with a telepathic understanding of the perverse mindset of radicals in their “community.” I am not the Tsarnaevs 2013-04-22T15:19:00Z But this is Hitchcock, connoisseur of the perverse, and the film ended up saying the opposite of what I thought it should. My favourite Hitchcock: Rear Window 2012-07-25T08:40:01Z The playfully perverse vignettes include a skulking villain in a cape and a swooning ingénue. Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds 2011-03-06T00:26:18Z The book opens in the aftermath of those crimes, as Polo rehearses a perverse confession that is both an admission of complicity and a denial of culpability. Inside a Gated Paradise, Evil Breeds and Strikes 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s an amusingly perverse choice for Valentine’s Day, given that it is, after all, a film about a man first seen in a clinic recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,’ Explores Time and Memory 2014-02-13T23:06:59Z But Ava’s narrated recollection about not shedding a tear over dad’s death makes sense: in later flashbacks it’s clear Lang’s character was quite perverse in the way he trained her to be a lethal weapon. ‘In the Blood’: Heroine punches up underdeveloped thriller 2014-04-03T21:25:26Z They have the money to buy just the right politicians, something that the perverse Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions by the U.S. The college admissions scandal is just the tip of the inequality iceberg 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Lately, she's turned even more perverse by retelling children's fables with — no, no nudity — just an impishly clinical humor. Toronto Film Festival: 10 Films to Talk About 2010-09-19T13:55:00Z Despite their perverse attitude to proselytising, it is impossible not to conclude that the Phelpsites love publicity of any description. I'd rather see Rowan Williams meet the Phelps family 2011-04-06T13:59:00Z Most of the series' supers parody famous heroes from the Marvel and DC Universes, and Termite, as the moniker suggests, is the show's perverse answer to Ant-Man, minus the goodness and charm. How "The Boys" measures up with regard to TV's full frontal assault 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Which may be the biggest shock of all, and also a perverse source of comfort. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z That attitude is invariably dark, moody, anomic, unsettling, disturbing, often violent and perverse — something that is likely to be far beyond our ordinary experience or ordinary entertainment. A race to the finish in the age of edge 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s not the craziness, the looniness of the idea that’s most distinctive, though elsewhere Taylor could be plenty whimsical or willfully perverse. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Indeed it was one of the escape routes for me growing up in a perverse and crazy situation. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z We see this lot of pretentious literary folks through the eyes of regular-guy Strike, who, after reading some of Quine’s perverse work, wonders if the novelist was mentally unwell. J. K. Rowling’s New Crime Novel, ‘The Silkworm’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z She rages against her mother and sisters, denounces old friends, and takes perverse, schadenfreude-like interest in the woes of others — including the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Books of The Times: America?s Health Care Crisis Visits Families, and Stays 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z What follows is an intensely perverse game of hide-and-seek, with Joan and her son finding sanctuary in spots of varying ingenuity. Hunted at the Zoo in ‘Fierce Kingdom’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The rise of slow games on mobile has allowed us to “play games about waiting while we’re waiting,” he said, adding, “It’s kind of perverse: Slow games aestheticize the experience of waiting.” The Slow-Game App Is the New Smoke Break 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z She called the British decision “as perverse as it is bewildering” and said that “it would be ridiculous for Mr. Depp not to appeal.” Johnny Depp Loses Court Case Against Newspaper That Called Him a ‘Wife Beater’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Time anxiety induces a perverse reaction to recommendations. The tyranny of cultural choice is making my brain gasp 2012-10-28T20:00:13Z It’s this, the tendency to hate women when they’re up and love them when they’re down, which is the most perverse feature of trainwreck culture and our aversion to female success. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Even if they realise where things are headed, there's a perverse incentive for marketers to plough more money into a lemon: that way, they can force some sales and preserve their dignity. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z The Sackler show, organized by Debra Diamond, associate curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, provides visual equivalents for yoga’s complex, often perverse and paradoxical ideas. Art Review: ‘Yoga: The Art of Transformation’ at Sackler Gallery 2014-01-02T22:01:19Z Technical problems, temperament, nerves — or could it be some perverse genius calculation? Mariah Carey Smiles and Glitters Through a Television Fiasco 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z It’s that shiver of proximity that provides the perverse pleasure; ask anyone who saw Contagion. Review of Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z But as Robert De Niro, a frequent star of those movies, recently noted: The mobsters he played had a fundamental, if perverse, sense of character. Perspective | Trump’s bizarre post-election behavior isn’t a tantrum or a coup. It’s fan service. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z One Raymond – Good Raymond, I suppose – would get on to a master's programme, or find a decent job, and the other Raymond, the perverse, malevolent one, would somehow conspire to mess it up. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z “But the film was very successful because people are perverse.” Ridley Scott: aliens are out there and one day they'll come for us 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Kempf theorized that homosexual panic emerged from “the pressure of uncontrollable perverse sexual cravings,” that is, from the frustration of homosexual urges that typically arose in same-sex environments, such as prison or the military. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z In the series’ wittily perverse take on the circle of life, these machines keep human bodies — Anderson’s included — imprisoned in goo-filled vats, using the energy from these meat puppets to power the Matrix. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z In a perverse way, Thundercat’s new album feels particularly suited for this moment — filled with both celestial, futuristic escapism and plaintive grief, the strength of human resilience and an unstinting sense of frustration. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Reichardt’s plots are blessedly austere, and it is a little too perverse to say that the problem with this modestly scaled movie is that too much happens. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Whether Franklin’s perverse, spiritually corrosive journey from simple ambition into coarse and ultimately ruinous greed is fascinating or depressive is in the eye of the beholder. What to watch after "Stranger Things" season 3: Start with "Harlots" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The episode “Magic Tree of Nowhere,” one of the most heartbreaking of the series, shows a perverse version of Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree.” Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z His dedication in conjuring what he calls this "ultra-labor- intensive" illusion is almost perverse. Get out to 'Uprising' ? but try to be there alone 2012-01-26T21:23:10Z I find Mr. Tower’s advice here to be diabolically perverse, a platinum thumb up the nose of the rule formerly known as golden. Review: ‘Table Manners,’ Chef Jeremiah Tower’s Guide for All Dining Challenges 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Initially, it seems almost perverse that Mr. Hardy is bearded in “Locke,” if only because it suggests that all that fuzz might get in the way of his expressiveness. Movie Review: ‘Locke’ Centers on a Fateful Night’s Journey 2014-04-24T21:57:58Z “The teens will save us,” we like to say of the Parkland generation, who know these perverse rituals more intimately than any of us. School Shootings and the Heroes Who Shouldn’t Be 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z If ever proof was needed that fate is perverse, consider this timing. | Fashion Diary: Drug-Fueled Fantasies (Without the Drugs) 2011-03-07T22:08:44Z For such people, anything I might say is going to be self-serving, perverse and just plain wrong. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z Ephraim Ngatane was 32 years old, though it seems perverse to say that such a body of work represents promise unfulfilled. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z My relationship with the Web site, which has, for years now, been the platform most deeply embedded in my daily—hourly, minutely—routine, has come to feel increasingly perverse. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z In “Palindromes” — perhaps Solondz’s most perverse and inscrutable work — the naive runaway protagonist is played by numerous different actors, varying in age, race, gender and size. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Lambkin got into acrylic tape and plastic bags, ripping and sticking and scrunching, slow and deliberative and a little perverse. Music Review: Keith Rowe With Graham Lambkin and Michael Pisaro at Temp 2013-01-17T21:33:05Z It's perverse, because these are the children who are often even less supported. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z I would be sympathetic to the theories, now circulating on Twitter, that the First Lady’s perverse choice to wear this coat constitutes a deliberate attempt to derail conversations and to bait denigrations. Interrogating Melania Trump’s Statement Jacket and its Fast-Fashion Fascism 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z A classic example of a perverse desire appears in Augustine’s “Confessions,” written around the year 400. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z They have skin and stubble so convincing it feels perverse, and hematomas that glisten like puddles after rain. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Neither ironic nor straightforward, Currin’s oils on canvas are curdled and perverse, both timely and twisted. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z A perverse, hilarious essay on the nature of art in the form of a fantastical tale about food, passion, flatulence and funny hats. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The break with tradition may seem jarring, even perverse at times, but it eventually justifies itself and becomes a vital part of the filmmakers' ripe approach to a familiar story. 'Elena': Second wife plans sabotage in impressive Russian film noir 2012-07-12T18:14:03Z Because his work ethic is sincere and his heart is pure, Delgado gives Riley an honest run for the money and even challenges our perverse impulse to root for the bad guy. Marilyn Stasio Finds Herself Rooting for the Bad Guy 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z That movie, which opened in New York a few weeks ago, might be described as a perverse folk tale set in the present day. Review: ‘Aferim!’ Traverses an Unforgiving Romania in the 1800s 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Jacobs has done something perverse with the straight office suit, a symbol of conservatism and get-ahead careerism. Fashion Review: Marc Jacobs, Chado Ralph Rucci, Donna Karan, Phillip Lim, Rodarte, Vera Wang and Wes Gordon — Fashion Review 2012-09-11T23:34:31Z Some, of course, will be familiar to American readers — but it still seems a perverse way of going about things. Ir?ne N?mirovsky: the life of and new work by the author of 'Suite Fran?aise' 2010-05-05T22:07:00Z Gene has done him a perverse favor, killing him the second he offers to turn himself in — and in the process, eliminating the one person who might have cleared Gene’s name. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But once he's got his protagonists identified and in place, "Watergate" becomes a pleasurably perverse and darkly comedic thriller. 'Watergate': Thomas Mallon's novel of Nixon's downfall 2012-02-22T22:01:06Z There are several visual echoes, including Goya’s “The Disasters of War” and the elegantly perverse beings of Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist paintings. 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z I take a perverse pride in pushing through long stretches, often waiting until I see the light before I consider filling up. Don’t make these travel mistakes: 7 writers share stories about blunders on the road 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z With nothing onstage, this production, however, becomes a perverse study in claustrophobia, further enhanced by Joachim Klein's stark lighting. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z With my timid suburban appetites only nascently aroused, I hadn’t yet overcome my deep and, for a New Englander, perverse aversion to seafood, so I ordered the sorrel soup and the roast chicken. Why American gastronomy owes so much to France 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z These are not the perks of ordinary corruption, but rather signs of Max’s perverse and terrifying zeal. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z Perhaps for inscrutably perverse reasons, though more likely a fault in the balance between speech and Hans Zimmer's hyper-percussive score, much of the dialogue is unintelligible. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-21T23:05:32Z "You do get to love the perverse, grumpy side of Stephen." Cheers for Frears 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Stargazing in New York is a little perverse, like surfing in Connecticut. No Red Carpet, but the Stars Are Out 2013-05-09T21:20:33Z That dog represents a real character who’s just as rascally and perverse as the book’s humans. Review: Richard Russo Returns Upstate in ‘Everybody’s Fool’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Only the most perverse forms of moral relativism would brush off their gaping character flaws as a product of their times. Donald Trump, FDR and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson problem: Here’s how we stop defending historical racism and move forward 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of "manic depression". Strictly Bipolar by Darian Leader – review 2013-05-06T07:00:01Z Upon first glance, the only semblance Marina bears to her office-dwelling predecessor is her penchant for Post-its, which now testify to a to-do list decidedly more perverse: From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z The more you think about Alice in Wonderland, the more morbid and perverse it becomes. Summer Voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster 2013-07-17T09:16:27Z Tessa’s daughterly dissatisfaction — “You’re the worst mom ever, and I’m not the only one who thinks so” — has had the perverse effect of motivating Gini to give herself another shot at motherhood. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Everywhere You Look, Love Triangles 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z One way to think about the “Real Housewives” shows is as a kind of perverse, televised postfeminist-feminine-status Olympics. Riff: ?Housewives,? Rebranded 2011-11-18T23:36:00Z “Road to Nowhere,” the latest from the 77-year-old Mr. Hellman, isn’t “MASH,” but it is enigmatic, elliptical, defiant of formula and possesses his almost perverse aversion to commerciality. Arts & Leisure Preview: Monte Hellman to Release a New Film, ?Road to Nowhere? 2010-05-15T02:25:00Z It seems perverse to suggest watching a show about delicious food on the occasion of this nation’s most intense eating holiday. Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z “This perverse moral mathematics,” he explains, “is part of the reason why governments and individuals care more about a little girl stuck in a well than about events that will affect millions.” Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Well, it was a deep and perverse stupidity. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z "Archetypes" is designed to obliquely speak to these perverse obsessions, establishing its mission as diving "into the labels that try to hold women back." "Archetypes": Meghan Markle would like to have a word, but the media circus won't hear it 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z And in our current moment, it has taken on an even more perverse valence — as a veil thrown over a deadly pandemic. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z As Colm's home burns, revenge is not just done and seen to be done, but is the perverse measure of Pádraic's newfound resilience. "The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z It was a perverse hitch in the schedules that led the Royal Ballet to open the most sophisticated triple bill of the season on a matinee. Royal Ballet triple bill 2010-05-25T21:40:00Z And while that seems highly unlikely, a perverse part of me almost doesn't want the show to come back so the ending can be preserved forever. Sherlock finale 2010-08-08T21:30:00Z Each, with its peculiar, hard, perverse beauty, is a complete narrative, a perfection. Previously Unseen Arbus, Unearthed Years After Her Death 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Their destruction was carried out with a rare and perverse vim. The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z Lurid and titillating, the film is full of perverse details of heinous crimes and marked by a seductively ambiguous bond that forms between the young agent-to-be, Clarice Starling, and the brilliant monster Lecter. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z This was a perverse triumph for the law of supply and demand in an era infatuated with the charms of the free market. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z To praise Northern Broadsides's production for being drab, dreary and dispiriting might seem perverse; but the fact that 1984 is all of those things is not just good, it is "double good". 1984 2010-10-12T23:05:00Z And though there was something appealingly perverse about its harsh treatment of this sun-dazed crowd, the group's attack went on about 45 minutes too long. Bruno Mars closes out Rock in Rio festival with a bang 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z This inexplicable hatred gave them, to me, a perverse allure: in daydreams, I imagined holding them at gunpoint—before falling dead, they’d acknowledge my beauty and power. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z To many modern eyes, the situation is perverse. Books of The Times: ‘Holding On Upside Down,’ a Biography of Marianne Moore 2014-02-12T22:41:42Z In his recent “Arena,” he staged a playful and perverse three-hour pageant at the Brooklyn performance space Jack, swathing himself and his dancers in ribbon, foil and fabrics. Your Week in Culture: Jay-Z, Eugene O’Neill and ‘Princess Bride’ in Theaters Nationwide 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Whatever this perverse hallucination might signify is left to the reader's imagination. Tea at the Midland by David Constantine – review 2012-12-14T22:55:03Z If you made these two friends when you were messy, then it might be, perverse as it sounds, part of what they liked about you. Perspective | When relatives act like turkeys, it’s okay to skip out on family Thanksgiving 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z However, perverse as this may sound, December is the perfect month to pick up “Sorry for Your Loss.” “Sorry for Your Loss,” an honest and real show about grief, actually uses Facebook for good 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The playfully perverse vignettes include a skulking villain in a cape and a swooning ingenue. Edward Gorey's sensibility is growing like nightshade 2011-03-05T03:09:56Z “The movie’s success lies in its heart, which is that many of us grew up in a home where a nanny became part of the family in a very perverse way.” Oscar contender Roma stirs up nostalgia and guilt in Mexico’s middle class 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s a perverse idea for a frugal traveler, but the Miami area abounds with courses, from chichi country clubs to public links. Snow Boots to Sockless, Briefly 2010-03-03T03:00:00Z Mr. Waters said he hoped the result is “even more perverse than the original, because it’s transforming innocence into a whole new kind of joyous, G-rated obscenity.” It's 'Pink Flamingos,' But, You Know, for Kids 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z African folklore is just as rich, and just as perverse,” he said. Author Says New Book Will Be the 'African Games of Thrones' 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Even by my family’s standards, this was perverse. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Now, “Keep It in the Closet” feels sinister and perverse. Perspective | Every Michael Jackson song sounds different today 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z "I think anyone watching this film saying this in some way supports or encourages violence is just watching the film in a very perverse way." Winterbottom defends graphic violence in new film 2010-02-19T15:13:00Z His friends deemed it a waste of energies: a “perverse, solitary” indulgence, not unlike Saint Anthony’s wrestling with demons, alone in a cave in the desert. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z On the 1995 western Dead Man, he took a perverse delight in finding the most humdrum locations in Oregon and Arizona. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z It's that shiver of proximity that provides the perverse pleasure; ask anyone who saw . Review of Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman 2011-10-07T15:30:00Z The combination of director and subject material in “Venus in Fur” is wickedly perverse, just as it should be. Review: Polanski and ‘Venus in Fur’ are a match 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say that their friendly chats eventually evolve into a business proposition, one that is its own perverse sort of master-slave relationship. Review: A Scalding Take on Race in ‘White Guy on the Bus’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Individuals in the agencies did not take bribes — it was the perverse incentives that corrupted the institutions. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Once at a lunch at a large bookseller's, the imp of the perverse seized me and I had the temerity to disagree with Gore. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z That intense or potent solitude is abnormal and even perverse. I Will Die in This Beautiful Place 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The Tsarnaev brothers’ criminal and perverse actions do not speak for me or the overwhelming majority of Muslims. I am not the Tsarnaevs 2013-04-22T15:19:00Z It’s like you’re telling somebody your dirtiest, rottenest, most perverse secrets. Rob Delaney meets Sally Wainwright: ‘People say, God, you’ve got a sick mind’ 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z That doesn’t stop her from being playful, hedonistic or perverse when she chooses. Beauty Confronts Doom on Grimes’s ‘Miss Anthropocene’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The first episode is a slightly perverse twist on those "Star Trek" inspired episodes that stranded the crew on hostile worlds run by decadent, gambling monsters. The sci-fi vaudeville charm of "Futurama" 2011-06-23T18:24:00Z Several commentators have defended The Iron Lady star, calling it perverse that women should be faulted for men’s alleged predations. Rightwing artist put up Meryl Streep 'she knew' posters as revenge for Trump 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z That perverse thought seems to have inspired a recent series by another photography great, Lee Friedlander. Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy 2010-09-02T22:45:00Z She had grown up feeling alienated and confused by her desires, and this played a major part in her love of all things considered “perverse.” The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Rather, it uses the circumstances of these athletes to underscore the perverse lengths German officials went to in maintaining the fiction of Aryan supremacy and humiliating or manipulating those the Third Reich deemed inferior. 2010-01-11T02:52:00Z I find it perverse that Labour is shying away from its own legacy. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z Taking little trips into corners of Toronto with her binoculars, Maclear examines “the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.” Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z But as the banalities pile up, Mr. Dinklage’s affectless delivery as a small, floating robot begins to make a perverse kind of sense. Destiny Is a New Shooter Game From Activision and Bungie 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Instead, difficult emotions are registered in close-ups of individual human faces, and a perverse, persuasive idea rises to the surface. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z But either way, before too long, your mood will creep back to its set point because of a really powerful and perverse phenomenon referred to in science as “hedonic adaptation.” Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z I think I'd always found a certain perverse satisfaction in telling myself I was only practising because someone else had made me. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Spero's guns, bombs and helicopters are polymorphous and perverse: male and female by turns. Nancy Spero: no pity 2011-02-26T00:07:34Z Wearing her suffragist white to give her address at the Republican National Convention, in an ode to whatever perverse feminism she’d worked out in her own head. Perspective | Farewell to Kellyanne Conway, the ultimate Woman for Trump 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z It always struck me as perverse that the nationalist government would have regarded the destruction of a church or a mosque as sacrilegious while ruthlessly destroying the houses of real people. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z For the choreographers, it’s another chapter in a journey that’s both productive and perverse: the potential for failure lurks around every corner. Review: Interpreting the Works of a Master From Another Culture 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z She wasn't finished: "So it seems perverse we are telling men to step up and be involved, while running them down in the media." Homer Simpson isn't a positive role model for kids? Eat my shorts… 2013-06-15T23:05:26Z His more perverse inclinations led him to an expertise in the particular grotesqueries of carnival sideshows; he can swallow swords and eat glass. I?m Not Really a Corpse. I Just Played One Onstage. 2011-03-04T00:24:08Z And yet, perverse though his approach may seem, Mr. Sellars has succeeded in making a familiar play newly strange, and strangely new. Beyond Shakespeare’s Wildest Dreams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Joan takes a perverse pleasure in exposing the ugliest parts of herself. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Yet the film is refreshingly perverse, refusing neat moral or narrative explanations. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z But, while Stephens admirably embodies Danton's anti-heroic aspect, there is a perverse grandeur to the man whom Carlyle dubbed the "Titan of the Revolution" which subtly eludes him. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z We think of her, however, primarily in terms of Mozart, Strauss and the excesses of Baroque opera, so the choice of Bach seems perverse. Bach: Cantatas and Arias ? review 2011-03-10T21:30:00Z But surely some members of the audience, perverse creatures that we are, might find the “wrong” option more interesting. Review: In ‘Right Now, Wrong Then,’ a Double Take and Its Choices 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It would be the most perverse kind of fandom for any Potterphile to argue against an actress using the reasoning of a Malfoy. Casting a Black Hermione Underscores a Key ‘Harry Potter’ Theme 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z If I specify these themes, it’s going to sound like a bloodbath, or like some kind of Grand Guignol or extremely perverse set of stories. Peter Straub’s childhood horror: “I knew more about fear and its first cousin terror, and pain, than children are normally expected to know” 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Like Watching Paint Thrive Painting is a lot of things: resilient, vampiric, perverse, increasingly elastic, infinitely absorptive and, in one form or another, nearly as old as humankind. Art Review: In Five Chelsea Galleries, the State of Painting 2012-06-28T22:03:04Z His work was as calm as it was obsessive, as perverse as it was innocent. The Outsider Fair Made Art ‘Big’ Again 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Imperious, perverse, remote and radiant, Catherine Deneuve is a monument to French poise and pulchritude. This Star Burns Brighter 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z This perverse parallelism operates in Mr. Lurie’s “Straw Dogs” too, but Peckinpah had a special genius for messing with his viewers’ heads. Rod Lurie Remakes Peckinpah?s ?Straw Dogs? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z She was also guided by her “perverse” love of a challenge. Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But the perverse gothic gusto of “Wuthering Heights” finds no counterpart or echo here. ‘The Lost Child’: an homage (of sorts) to ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It is a tumultuous, exuberant performance, sometimes comic, sometimes perverse. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z Trump is using that energy as a perverse mandate to continue his assault on American democracy and the rule of law. Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z And I think that made her, in a perverse way, very appealing, because who in the world doesn’t deal with issues? Jenna Lyons, the Woman Who Dresses America 2013-01-18T22:17:58Z In hindsight, that's perverse, yet it could be because her role was not fully defined in the story. David Thomson on Annette Bening 2010-10-27T22:40:00Z And this defiantly perverse new set, whose jokes come with so much baggage they threaten to obscure the performer, will inspire heated, divisive reactions. Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Dancers with their backs to the audience — already it’s a little perverse — inch ahead in tiny steps as their bodies lean quietly from side to side. Review: In New Batsheva Work, Dance It Once. Then Repeat With Variations. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Booking Ms. Keys and Mr. Legend appeared almost perverse from a distance — the comedian Hannibal Burress, in an interlude, suggested the festival was arranged by a shuffle feature. Chance the Rapper Honors Chicago, His Hometown, With Magnificent Coloring Day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z At the same time, it takes a perverse effort of will to love “Maps to the Stars.” Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I, for one, took the book’s message to heart, and in my younger years regarded gefilte fish with a mixture of revulsion and perverse curiosity. The Great Gefilte-Fish Lie 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “What people call perverse and outside the margins, it has nothing to do with perversity,” Ms. Huppert said. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z And in the opening scenes, I worried that a perverse preciousness might dominate. Review: In ‘Inanimate,’ a Forbidden Love Dares to Speak Its Name 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z But the package is classy, even classical; the performances are good; and the attitude is just perverse enough for the show to be genuinely surprising and even shocking at times. TV Picks: 'Helix,' 'Shakespeare,' 'Parks and Rec,' 'Greenville' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z His life and work suggest a perverse revision of the James Joyce formula for making it as an Irish writer — “silence, exile and cunning.” T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z Or rather he is, but in ways that unexpectedly complement the perverse spirit of this grisly, twisty tragedy. | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z “It’s inexplicably perverse that the movie retcons Mercury’s HIV diagnosis as the band’s motivation for Live Aid,” IndieWire’s own David Ehrlich added in his review. “Bohemian Rhapsody” called out for inaccuracies, including handling of Mercury’s HIV diagnosis 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z But the members of the Swedish Academy display an almost perverse tendency to get things wrong. Perspective | The Swedish Academy took a year off to fix the Nobel Prize in literature. It’s still broken. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Orwell assumed that Gulliver reflected his creator’s morose character and claimed that Swift suffered from a “general hatred of humanity” stoked by a perverse obsession with mankind’s sins and weaknesses. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The protagonists of both films are apolitical, undistinguished men afforded perverse opportunities by the political turmoil around them. Movie Review: ?Post Mortem,? Directed by Pablo Larra?n and Set in Chile 2012-04-10T22:36:47Z Found after his death in 1973, these compelling and perverse pictures suggest private games between artist and model, and disclose how design can be an erotic enterprise. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Lynch is not being willfully perverse with work like “Polish Night Music” – which is a wonderful record, by the way, ethereal yet precise slices of musical meditation that are both haunting and calming. David Lynch, liberated: The “Twin Peaks” creator’s swerve into obscurity isn’t about being artsy or pretentious 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “But I’m pretty desensitized to everything. I’ve lived inside me for a long time, so I don’t think I’m especially perverse. Maybe I’m just used to me.” Will Forte Is Still Waiting for ‘MacGruber’ to Blow Up 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The whole premise of the series is that Walter’s entrance into the drug trade is a wild anomaly, albeit one with a certain perverse logic. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z These questions are at the root of why actual history and imagined futures fascinate us, or at least those of us who find a perverse sort of joy in forcing ourselves to imagine dreadful scenarios. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Smoke on the Water 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Visually, the production is a perverse wonderland, at once austere and flamboyant, campy and menacing. 'An Invasion of Decency!': A wild pop-up performance in search of meaning 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z There’s also Kubozuka’s anguished ne’er-do-well Kichijiro, who wears an unblinking mask that combines treachery and innocence in a kind of perverse purity. Review: Scorsese's 'Silence' Gorgeous and Haunting 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Meticulously arranged and undeniably gorgeous, the work of this Brooklyn photographer requires an almost perverse amount of preparation. Bright Prospects: Daniel Gordon 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z And occasionally the actors play the text too loud, so to speak, but it’s forgivable, especially given the language’s perverse gambols — who wouldn’t be carried away by these lines? In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The imp of the perverse plagues social interactions, too, as anyone who has ever laughed in recognition at an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” will know all too well. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z You may get sleepy as Stein keeps circling back to reiterate the same ideas, but the perverse byways of her thought also feel strangely cozy and appealing. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z The fact that convicted murderers and rapists go free after serving only years or months in jail makes the cruel and draconian punishment for nonviolent crimes all the more absurd and perverse. Meet the real Walter White: This man sold meth to save his son’s life 2013-12-16T01:00:00Z But it was Bieber who truly defined the night -- a talented teen megastar, now unsure of his audience as he wrestles with the imp of the perverse. Justin Bieber, Kanye West take the Wango Tango stage with urgency 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Unlike other movies about jihad, “Horses of God,” doesn’t concentrate on the terrorists’ grandiose indoctrination and the rituals of their final meals, prayers and preparations, which can attach a perverse glamour to suicide. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z But, he added, the first inklings of Mr. Warlikowski’s mature style were already clear in those 1990s shows, particularly an enduring fascination with “perverse, unobvious, not straightforward situations, where one person inflicts pain on another.” A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z This has the perverse result of making most of the scenes play the same. Review: ‘Sojourners,’ About Nigerians Assimilating to Life in the U.S. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z It might seem counterintuitive — or a perverse form of escapism — to turn from the dystopia of reality to that of fiction. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z While the academy’s voters have become more adventurous in the past decade or so, “May December” seems too perverse and, frankly, too intellectually sophisticated and playful to secure a best picture nod. At a Particularly Strong Cannes Film Festival, Women’s Desires Pull Focus 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z I loved Don Hillary, the requisite alcoholic professor, who once wrote cowboy poetry and now appears to be “slowly embalming himself as a source of perverse patrician fun.” What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z It would appear to be a perverse quirk of the modern human condition that compels us to seek out media foregrounding that which upsets us, but this has been hardwired into our pathology for millennia. Exposure therapy: why we're obsessed with watching virus movies 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z We don’t want to hear how the suicide of a loved one elicits suicidal thoughts in those left behind, either from despair or from a desire to achieve a perverse intimacy with the dead. On Writing About Suicide and Not Finding Catharsis 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z But what was uniquely perverse for us was the community’s collective, blue-ribbon ability to ignore the elephant in the classroom. My one black friend 2012-07-04T16:00:00Z Placing an upscale sushi restaurant in a huge aquarium may sound perverse — like plunking down a burger joint in a field of grazing cattle. Choice Tables: Museum Restaurants: Where Art and Haute Cuisine Meet in Paris 2010-03-12T17:06:00Z The Hunger Games: 'a commentary on society's perverse fascination with reality television'. Amnesty teen takeover: Sara Grant's top 10 books that entertain and inspire 2012-08-22T11:19:10Z But the action is often confused and occasionally perverse, its rewrites weakening the narrative.In rep until 2 July. Don Giovanni – review 2012-06-05T17:01:01Z This has the perverse effect of making us feel much more at ease. Theater Review: ‘A Celebration of Harold Pinter,’ Directed by John Malkovich 2012-10-17T02:00:10Z Because he is following his "perverse love for the periphery, for the provincial" in countries that do not "pine for the rest of the world". On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:08Z Her narrator, Linda, may be a bit perverse and amoral; she may be your averagely narcissistic teenager, prone to casual brutality and blind to the hardships and hurts of those around her. Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z A user might select a favorite charity or — for perverse added incentive — a charity they would never support. I Resolve. World, Don?t Fail Me Now. 2011-01-21T20:40:10Z Catnip for me is still the dark, the claustrophobic, the perverse. MJ Hyland: why I had to write about my MS 2012-08-11T23:27:00Z As she wrote to her uncle at the time, "publishers are very perverse" in their demands and "so my little women must grow up & be married off in a very stupid style." How both "Hustlers" and "Little Women" anticipated their own Oscar snubs 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But the human heart under investigation here doesn't seem all that perverse. 'The Way You Look Tonight' at the Odyssey Theatre 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Todd was a weird kid, and full of perverse surprises, especially since adolescence had kicked in, but… Christian rock? Saved by Christian rock 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z In “Earth,” the area’s continued expansion is bleakly expressed by a parade of bulldozers and backhoes that, from a distance, appear to be engaged in a perverse, choreographed dance. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Kelly’s lawyers must find ways to counter testimony from accusers alleging an array of perverse misconduct spanning three decades. Prosecutors wrap up as R Kelly trial moves into next stage 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z MacPhisto was the embodiment of the imp of the perverse, phoning world leaders, sports figures, and unfortunate taxi dispatchers. U2 isn’t radical now: On tour, Bono calls for justice too softly — and safely — for 2018 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Things turn really perverse in the final scene, when Daland's crew tries to rouse the ghostly sailors aboard the Dutchman's ship. Review: Terfel shines in Zurich's odd 'Dutchman' 2012-12-10T11:31:05Z The Seventh is the least neurotic of Mahler's symphonies, and for those who see him primarily as psychodramatic, it is consequently his most problematic and perverse. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-04-26T21:30:00Z “He suddenly grabbed me and put his hands on me. It was sexual, it was perverse and it was ugly,” she writes. Tippi Hedren: Alfred Hitchcock sexually assaulted me 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Here’s a welcome chance to read stories that have appeared in publications from The New Yorker to Prairie Schooner, and his perverse short narratives do not disappoint. Books to Breeze Through This Summer 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z For reasons that are both obvious and deeply perverse, people in small Northeastern towns celebrate the Rebel flag their own ancestors shed blood to defeat. Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past, and it’s poisoning our future 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z You always wonder about Willy’s perverse pride, trying to cling to this old salesman’s job when his carefree neighbor, Charley, offers him work. Review | Willy Loman still dreams big in Miller’s ‘Salesman’ at Ford’s 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z People have long struggled to describe its perverse genius. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Given the emphasis on paring down, it feels all the more perverse that this album ends with Mr. Drew on an acoustic guitar, warbling an ode called “Me and My Hand.” Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z But there was something more perverse than enticing about the nude colors, blushing to darker shades, and the sense of willful bodily exposure. Playing the Fame Game 2012-09-13T17:31:40Z And there is a perverse anti-musical streak in sternly declining to dance to this rousing music ever, even as the vibrant Shug revs up the juke joint. Review | This ‘Color Purple’ may have won a Tony, but it’s cut to the bone 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z A day after the festival’s board of directors declared him persona non grata, Mr. von Trier chalked up his remarks to, of all things, his perverse need to please. Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z Typical for Kubrick, who had great love for the blackly comic, they settled on a mash-up that brought an air of perverse gentility to the menacing young hooligan played by McDowell. McDowell's cricket gear inspired `Clockwork' thug 2011-05-19T16:21:11Z To keep things spontaneous, Mr. Mass came up with perverse new door policies. The Gritty Club at the Heart of ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “The things they put the women through are horrible, at times. It’s kind of nice to watch, in a perverse way.” Turning Reality TV Trash Into Art 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Though it is dark to consider, this is also one of the richest and most perverse joys of Metallica. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z He said that he was getting a little “perverse pleasure” from playing “Palais de Mari” in a piano festival, since it is almost “an anti-piano piece.” Conor Hanick Plays Contemporary Work at Keyboard Institute 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z I’ve also heeded criticism of it from those who find its vision of racial reconciliation perverse. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Ordinarily, I’d find this lack of history or commentary disturbing, perverse. 3 Knockout Art Shows to See in Los Angeles Right Now 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z This is to say nothing of the perverse ways people speak to themselves. In Stories From an Argentine Surrealist, Circles of Madness and Violence 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The perverse achievement of “Melancholia” is how difficult it is to argue with her conclusion. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z She is a doctor who becomes involved in a perverse love triangle with a vampire couple, played by David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve. Susan Sarandon: five best moments 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In these painstaking sheets, capricious or perverse, steeped in powder blue and misty rose, Lequeu proved that architecture can be an erotic art, in which buildings get confused for bodies and vice versa. 14 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But everything leads back to Abramović's mother, a perverse figure who actually wants to kill those she is supposed to protect. Manchester international festival: Room with no view 2011-07-11T20:30:01Z The closest parallel in the opera to contemporary technical wizardry is Klingsor’s false garden; it feels rather perverse to extend those artificial seductions to the rest of a piece that’s condemning them. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Andy Warhol was the executive producer of Bad, a perverse black comedy which gained Tyrrell cult status as a frumpy, raunchy social parasite. Susan Tyrrell 2012-06-27T14:41:00Z To deliberately draw oneself into boredom seems counterproductive, almost perverse. Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s interminably dull 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Stalker” is the movie we need right now 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z That would be insufferably snobbish and wilfully perverse, like a music critic bragging that they’ve never listened to the Beatles. I've never seen ... Titanic 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z These are the forbidden, perverse pleasures gestured at in this enjoyably hammy, stagey two-hander from , daring in its verbose and middle-aged way. Cannes 2013: Venus in Fur - first look review 2013-05-25T10:04:14Z Over the past two weeks, the text messages have been rolling in like a perverse countdown to 2022. America slouches into a new pandemic year 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z They give us a kind of perverse pleasure in reverse: not of seeing the worst come true, but of seeing the worst without it coming true. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z |
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