| 单词 | perversely |
| 例句 | He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contribute equal amounts of genetic material, even though the resulting analysis was perversely complex. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I bought a complete set of the Harvard Classics—chiefly because Bobby said we didn’t have room for them in our suite—and rather perversely read all fifty volumes. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Her fingers wrinkled from being immersed in water and, perversely, her mouth dried up with thirst. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I fancied that a malevolent Rumpelstiltskin crept into my room at night and undid my best work, turning the gold of my efforts into pathetic dross on a wheel perversely spinning backward. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I found myself unconsciously urging the spacecraft at least to stand on its tiptoes, as if this laboratory, designed for immobility, were perversely refusing to manage even a little hop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Helen has a bum foot, which Ted, in explaining her absence one day, blames on the cheap, ill-fitting shoes that, he implies, she perversely chooses to wear. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought he should write them in Chinese, then translate them, but when he sat down, he perversely found that he wanted to compose in English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn’t, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He delivered the news as if, perversely, it pleased him to be telling this. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Discovering him, seeing his surprise, and presented at once with choices, Winnie’s mind perversely went blank. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, listening to his classmates complain, he feels perversely responsible, as if his own work were being attacked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet, perversely, pressure is growing in some quarters to reduce the number of shelters to discourage what is seen—amazingly to me—as overuse of the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The age differences in the family always seemed to add unnecessarily and perversely to our problems. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His work began with making sure that Death Row inmates stayed healthy—not just for their own good but, perversely, so they couldn’t succeed in suicide and thereby “cheat the chair.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness their feet felt that they were going downhill, and each privately and perversely accused the other of taking, deliberately, a path they had followed together once before in happiness. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z And, perhaps perversely, it’s hard not to come away without some degree of admiration for Mr. Hussain, seen and heard only in the grainy videos shot in his car and living room. ‘The Newburgh Sting,’ on HBO, About Bronx Bomb Plot 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Somewhat perversely, the good-natured frenzy surrounding this epic fail can be viewed as evidence of its romance reality flagship's success. "Love Is Blind" promised a live reunion, only to stand us up. So, what did we learn? 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The result, he argues, is a new form of historical amnesia, one that, perversely, only further alienates us from the past. An Alarmed Architect?s Complaint: Preservation Distorts the Past 2011-05-23T12:01:01Z I like living here because the illusory nature of reality is perversely obvious. Coyotes, the Ultimate American Tricksters 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The deceptions and misunderstandings that occur here are as improbable, and perversely logical, as those of Feydeau’s paradigmatic sex farces. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z That the relationship never amounted to much is probably, perversely, why it’s endured so well in your fantasies. Social Q’s: Live and Love for Today 2014-04-17T20:01:03Z During last summer's riots, voices were heard suggesting the ongoing events might perversely be good for music. The Temper Trap: The Temper Trap ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:01Z Instead, what you get is a perversely hilarious performance, from the moment he takes the stage with an attitude of downbeat resignation that never really changes throughout the night. This week's new comedy 2011-01-08T00:06:34Z But it seems to take place in a perversely kinetic eternity, a twilight time when life seems to be moving both way too fast and too slow. Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh’s Fierce ‘Disco Pigs’ 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z And Ms. Parks and Mr. Vernon’s pastiche fusion musical numbers, choreographed with slashing wit by Jennifer Weber, are as synthetically sweet and perversely addictive as the real thing. Review: ‘KPOP’ Sings and Dances Its Way Through a Divided Culture 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Kliff and Oh theorize, however, that it’s just this increasing liberalism that is perversely leading to the jump in judgmental attitudes on this one narrow issue of divorce. Divorce is a good thing: Americans have become too judgmental about marital separation — you must accept that not all marriages work out 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z With a thoroughly vacant Lucia, the opera is imbalanced: the men, perversely, are the sympathetic ones here, down to the crisp conducting of Patrick Summers. Music Review: Dessay Is Pale in ?Lucia di Lammermoor? 2011-02-25T08:38:16Z But perversely, when income cutoffs were lowered, holding such jobs made tenants ineligible to remain. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z A nurse by training, she wavers perversely between imploring Charlie to check into a hospital and enabling his self-destruction by delivering piles of fast food. Theater Review: Shuler Hensley in ‘The Whale,’ by Samuel D. Hunter 2012-11-06T03:00:22Z As Barry weaves in and out of gridlocked traffic, gently singing to himself, each of his pursuers falls away in absurd accidents, the most ludicrous culminating in a perversely ridiculous stand-off at a car dealership. From beignet bites to a deadly dance, here are 2022's best TV episodes. Well, six of them, anyway 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z But “perversely,” he added, it may also “get at that deeper truth of how these things do hold together,” and maybe why we, as viewers, need them to cohere. In ‘There There,’ the Actors in the Room Are Far Far From Each Other 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Watching this cinematic sleight of hand is unquestionably an intense, perversely enjoyable cinematic experience. 2010-01-29T07:06:00Z And there's something perversely delightful about seeing a brash, hustling 80s pop record like Faith given this sort of reverent treatment. Be grateful to the Grateful Dead 2011-01-27T21:30:01Z It’s a world where words themselves become superfluous and seem almost perversely simplistic, and I am overjoyed to inhabit it every day. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z By withdrawing Fairstein’s name after it was criticized, the organization appeared both feckless and perversely ignorant of the career of the very person it, days earlier, presented to the public as deserving of its imprimatur. Perspective | Does Linda Fairstein deserve a literary honor? Critics say her past as a prosecutor sullies her art. 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z But coming post-Brexit and post-Trump, it feels almost perversely out of sync with the political moment, and nowhere near strong enough to define a moment of its own. Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See? 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s a social novel that positions idiomatic — rather than stock — characters in a messy world and then strips both down to perversely specific universals through a strong plot and the soul-level clarity of beautiful language. Literary realism is dead 2012-10-20T21:00:00Z I agree with what Zach just said, but it’s perversely made worse by the regulations the campaign reformers have put on campaigns. How the Clinton-Gingrich years became ‘the good old days’: Republicans revisit 1994 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z I felt perversely thrilled, afterward, that the treatment had only fogged my peripheral vision. My year without makeup 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z It is also, perhaps perversely, one of the most musically successful songs on the album, a shuddering alignment of rhythm and sentiment. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The ensuing bumps and scrapes are perversely entertaining. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z There’s something perversely ingenious about the writer and director Matt Ross’s independently produced feature “Captain Fantastic,” which opened in limited release a few weeks ago and is now playing nationwide. The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic” 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z And, inevitably, a few passages lack Wallace's usual high stylistic polish, though there's something perversely pleasant about the rough patches. Unfinished Business 2011-03-31T11:15:00Z Seeking therapy is considered to be a responsible act, and perversely this informs Sam's drastic actions. It's "difficult to curb his impulses": "The Patient" star Domnhall Gleeson on a killer in therapy 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s something about her Kimmy Gibbler grin and the knowing, the utter and complete knowing, that the tone of “Fuller House” is so insipidly wrong that it becomes, for certain viewers, perversely right. You already know ‘Fuller House’ is bad. But are you adult enough to resist it? 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Critics have often uneasily ignored his history, but he himself seems perversely intent on invoking it. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Not since Misery confined the famously hyperactive James Caan to a similar fate had an actor's boundless energy been contained so perversely. Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z Kooky and perversely compelling, as ever, his designs blended elements of monastic robes with bellhop uniforms, and also raccoon tails. Fashion Review: A Look That Doesn?t Need to Introduce Itself 2010-02-18T02:36:00Z As Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, Alexander Gemignani brings a rich baritone and ominous purpose to the show’s most lush-sounding and perversely beautiful number, “Molasses to Rum,” in defense of slavery. Review: ‘1776,’ a Musical Portrait of Squabbling Politicians 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Sheen: Yeah, I sort of perversely decided that I was going to try and play the most unlikeable character on TV and see if people could still empathize. From bingeing to unpleasant characters to Sharpie fumes, dramatic actors tell all 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z One of the most surefire bewitchers in Shakespeare, Puck, is perversely mannered, with much elocution and many rolls of the arms by Matthew Tennyson. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z Admittedly cleaner looking than other bakers’ frosting application, the piping on Ms. Hoecherl’s cakes, which she also decorates with maraschino cherries, gold hearts and sugar pearls, is almost perversely perfect. Let Them Eat (Wacky, Whimsical) Cake 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Six years ago I moved to Los Angeles, and, perversely, living in a place where women really are that skinny, and really do look that good, set me free. Hiding my freckles 2012-12-27T22:35:00Z Confessional comedy is one of the dominant forms of the moment, but sometimes it can feel too packaged and thus perversely inauthentic. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He’s done bald and bulky, blond and sleek; more perversely, he has masked his face with beard fuzz and appliances. Review: ‘Legend,’ Starring Tom Hardy as the Gangster Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z That it might have been, but here in the 21st century the style looks perversely profound and carries with it an art-historical gravitas. ‘3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980’ Review: A Celebration of the Weird 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z “Gemma Bovery” is almost perversely oblivious to the workings of Gemma’s mind. Review: ‘Gemma Bovery,’ a Modern Sex Comedy With a Nod to Flaubert 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the caustic satire “Swimming With Sharks,” Kevin Spacey played Buddy Ackerman, a perversely ruthless mogul who personified Hollywood’s most legendary belligerent jerks. Perspective | Scott Rudin’s bad behavior was just another Hollywood cliche until a new generation said time’s up 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z But his style is more perversely mercurial than any of those. OAE/Norrington ? review 2011-03-07T21:45:01Z Most independent labels lack the staff to vet and clear samples, and most of their artists lack the funds, so some choose to release the records anyway and, perversely, hope they don't become attention-grabbing hits. Harlem Shake: could it kill sampling? 2013-03-13T17:03:00Z Holland Cotter, writing in The Times, called that year’s Documenta “almost perversely esoteric.” One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z Because this sly trickster who operates under multiple identities is not in it for the money, he couldn’t be called a criminal, and his puncturing of the pretensions of curators is perversely satisfying. Critic’s Notebook: The Tribeca Film Festival Begins Its 13th Season 2014-04-15T16:18:57Z Confronted by great images, we too often recoil from their rhetoric, and perversely censor the creativity they stimulate in us. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The flip side is that Fleabag’s shamelessness is perversely empowering. Being ‘Fleabag,’ From Stage to TV and Back Again 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z What started out as an attempt to reform the filibuster and erode its power perversely became a facilitator of it. As the Georgia Runoffs Arrive, a New Book Says the Senate Is Broken 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Most of the songs are perversely casual, not dark but indifferent, moving at an unhurried pace. Critic's Notebook: Going Into the Haze in Their Debut Albums 2011-07-12T22:59:41Z It makes one yearn for the perversely witty chatter of Jigsaw. Review: 'Collection' a nastily efficient chiller 2012-11-29T15:31:12Z And while Russian efforts were thwarted, their campaign did result in the president resigning – proving that "Homeland," perversely enough, isn't merely a fantasy for conservative hawks. "Homeland" returns one last time for a final hope of ending an endless war 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z But it is also sly, daring, genuinely original and at times perversely brilliant. Movie Review: ?The Color Wheel,? Directed by Alex Ross Perry 2012-05-17T21:26:59Z "It is almost perversely impressive how Dahan misses almost every target and squanders almost every opportunity," the Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Dalton wrote. 'Grace of Monaco' under fire: Dreadful reviews at Cannes Film Festival 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Here, that fluidity has hardened into set postures, lines and deliveries, while throwaway humor has been exaggerated in ways that perversely shrink its impact. Review: ‘Fish in the Dark,’ Larry David’s Antic Broadway Debut 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Conversely, and perversely, was Thanos wrong about the universe being completely overpopulated and out of balance? In the end, "Peacemaker" is the villain-turned-hero worth crossing the TV galaxy for 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z There’s this, too, perversely: If your mistake was being born, then it wasn’t anything you did. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her sister-in-law has the starring role in a mean girls group chat 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Even the think pieces perversely noting that Trump’s supporters are about to reap what they sowed, potentially driving some of them back to the Democrats, are no consolation. Mourning Trump and the America We Could Have Been 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Delivering the anguished lines of the self-destructive egotist that Chaplin became, he perversely tends to fade into the gray. Theater Review: ‘Chaplin: The Musical’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theater 2012-09-11T02:00:17Z Meanwhile, doesn’t it seem so perversely true to form that “Mad Men” kills off Betty on Mother’s Day and then gives perhaps its happiest ending to the show’s most despised regular character? 'Mad Men' Recap: The Long and Winding Con 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Her actions seem unintelligible at times, her plucky asides almost perversely frivolous in the face of serious events. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z You don’t like 1 percenter Robert Miller, even if you admire his ability to get things done, and enjoy, perversely, his oblivion to the 99 percent. Richard Gere Is Ruthless and Ruthlessly Good in Arbitrage 2012-09-13T12:00:39Z And now that we have, The Killing and other European crime dramas have started to feel like a perversely English occupation – slightly eccentric, but pursued in private by a surprisingly large number of people. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z Compared with this year's other Glastonbury headliners, the Arctic Monkeys and Mumford and Sons, the Stones, perversely, have the real youthful, warrior edge. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z It leads into a song called “Pap Smear,” perversely one of the album’s peppier electro-disco tracks. Critics? Choice: CDs by Karen Elson, Crystal Castles, Keith Jarrett 2010-05-23T22:36:00Z The estimates, which proved to be laughably, almost perversely low, were apparently derived only from the intrinsic value of the metals and minerals involved. Auction Shows Elizabeth Taylor?s Star Still Shines 2011-12-16T23:29:38Z Director Franck Khalfoun handles the tricky logistics of the incessant killer's-POV shots with aplomb, a device that perversely succeeds in keeping leading man Elijah Wood off screen for most of the movie. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-06-29T23:05:44Z But mostly, he was lingering over my perversely skinny arms, which, despite my best efforts to bulk them up, have always looked like they belonged on a 15-year-old girl. My skinny arm complex 2012-12-16T01:00:00Z Given that it comes from the most perversely inventive mind in American movie fiction, Anomalisa might at first seem like no big deal. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z In a later interview, the Telegraph asked Phoenix if he was “worried that this film might perversely end up inspiring exactly the kind of people it’s about, with potentially tragic results?” ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z In other words, “Bloody Bloody” manages to be a goofy delight and a perversely affecting comment on the American temperament at the same time. 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson': Public Theater Stages a Populist Musical 2010-04-07T04:12:00Z Perhaps it is the production’s perversely dreary physical world that amplifies the leaden quality. Into the often drab woods with Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘As You Like It’ Best Actor: Jay O. Sanders in, perversely, a non-singing role in “Girl From the North Country.” Who Says You Can’t Give Tony Awards in an Abbreviated Season? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “I find this kind of perversely laughable that we turn to these kinds of figures for this. You can’t get that from being a disciplined violin player or an artist or a writer?” In vaccination battles, pro athletes become proxy players 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z He lived comfortably, financed by his merchant father, and led an almost perversely placid existence, once turning down travel because he was worried it would give him even more ideas. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Brazil’s ongoing scandal, known as Operação Lava Jato, or Operation Car Wash, is as perversely spectacular as the most extravagantly imagined crime novel or Machiavellian episode of “House of Cards.” Brazil’s Jaw-Dropping Corruption Scandal Comes to Netflix 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In summary, it might sound perversely counterintuitive of Hamid to use a fairy-tale-like device as a way to move his characters from their war-torn homeland to a new life in the West. Review: In ‘Exit West,’ Mohsin Hamid Mixes Global Trouble With a Bit of Magic 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z “Philomena” is the underdog, which is, perversely, exactly where Harvey wants to be. The Carpetbagger: Alfonso Cuarón May Be a DGA Favorite, but ‘Philomena’ Is Rising Fast 2014-01-24T18:43:51Z “Junk” — perversely, knowingly titled — expands somewhat on the strengths of “Hurry Up,” balancing Italo-disco chill-out atmospheres and calibrated buildups and releases. Review: ‘Junk’ Builds on M83’s Strengths 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Corbijn picturesquely frames the back story to the shoot, but his muffled retelling drifts with Dane DeHaan’s murmurous impersonation of Dean and Robert Pattinson’s almost perversely listless turn as Stock. Review: In ‘Life,’ Photographing James Dean, the Rising Star 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It gives her courage, putting her in touch with "a different side of me that's strong and braver and more powerful", which, perversely, allows her to be more vulnerable, too. 'Forces take you over' 2011-02-12T00:03:28Z But it's equally hard not be perversely charmed by his crowd-pleasing shamelessness. Why Glastonbury belonged to the Rolling Stones 2013-07-01T08:32:17Z But there was something perversely comforting about being there again: the sense that everything in life could be categorized as either comedy or drama, and of course there was the surly teenager behind the counter. Stealing from Blockbuster 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z For an act who seem to be stating an intention to quit, perversely it now all seems to be happening for maverick sketch trio Pappy's. This week's new live comedy 2013-04-06T05:00:17Z As fast as Hays, and other “uplifters” of Hollywood, could work, the power of the studios, and their executives, was perversely growing. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And the final shot, of two people seeing day break, feels perversely decadent. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z He took this anecdote about the shower, labeled it “The Unseen” and made it the “U” chapter in his fluky, perversely appealing encyclopedia-style volume. Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles?s ?Insectopedia? 2010-03-24T23:08:00Z It's true that Spartacus almost perversely cloaks its intelligence with glossy visuals and hysterical action but devotees know this is above all a show that loves language. Spartacus: Smarter than you think 2011-03-21T15:12:07Z Men are at war with the universe, perversely convinced that they have a chance of winning. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z As with the dire dating show Take Me Out, there is meant to be some sort of female empowerment inherent in the format, but this may be the most perversely sexist show on television. Horizon: Science Under Attack and Tool Academy 2011-01-25T08:00:10Z The horrid elegance he applies to agony is perversely enchanting. The Best Performances of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Though Goldberg’s heart has always been in theater, in her late 20s it became apparent that in order to earn a living — and, perversely, land more theater roles — screen acting was a necessity. On ‘Barry,’ Sarah Goldberg Has Learned to Love TV 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Collin asked Phoenix if he worries “Joker” might “perversely end up inspiring exactly the kind of people it’s about, with potentially tragic results.” Joaquin Phoenix walks off "Joker" interview after question about film inciting violence 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The motives may be dishonest but the technique is brazen honesty – to scream: "This is the catch!" so loudly at cynical consumers that they perversely ignore it. Truthfulness in advertising? Who knows ? it could just catch on 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z A lot of inspired creativity goes into crafting these deliberately unfunny yet perversely hilarious shows. This week's new live comedy 2011-08-26T23:06:02Z In comparison to the treats we're used to today, this seems perversely strange. The mythical history of mincemeat pies 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z For this, Davis selects a perversely difficult family saga by the writer Dag Solstad. Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The engine of his diatribes is rational argument taken to perversely logical or baroquely excessive conclusions. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z People think about the tunnels and obvious associations with war or the Holocaust, and there is something Germanic about these concrete bunkers that he perversely calls pavilions, the tunnels that resemble dug-out trenches. Following an Artist Into His Labyrinth 2011-08-05T15:37:13Z This, perversely and paradoxically, makes her eminently qualified to radically rethink the concert experience. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z He laughs so often as he says this that I can't tell if he finds the memory perversely comical or mortifyingly uncomfortable. Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick' 2013-03-28T14:03:56Z As the most stolid figure in Eilenberger’s book, Cassirer is also, somewhat perversely, the most enigmatic. How Wittgenstein and Other Thinkers Dealt With a Decade of Crisis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z All add up to an evening that’s bracing yet, perversely enough, enchanting. Carmina Slovenica Sings the Haunting ‘Toxic Psalms’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Yet this gloomy show is perversely glamorous and colorful, with so much there in it that we keep reviving it to try once again to penetrate that subtext. Is 'Hamilton' the top Broadway musical of all time? Not necessarily, this expert says 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z I found myself longing for the perversely joyous image of Slim Pickens riding the bucking bombshell at the end of “Dr. Strangelove.” Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z It happens, perversely, on “Talk Is Cheap,” a carpe-diem anthem on which Mr. Jackson seems to be stifling a yawn. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z But overwhelmingly the movie seems perversely intent on being “nice.” | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z Too ruthless, as his later career has born out, with classics that would have transformed his ’80s albums being killed off, deliberately, perversely. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the first-ever “Deploraball” started slowly and weirdly, its name a perversely proud tribute to Hillary Clinton’s disparagement of a certain ilk of Trump supporters. As inaugural balls get underway, lots of pomp regardless of circumstance 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Somewhat perversely, however, the biggest wildlife celebrities earn their fame for their role in life-and-death struggles. “Planet Earth II”: Celebrating nature’s majesty in an era of its endangerment 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z I sort of — perversely, I know — but I like the idea that to live is to be lost. Review: ‘A Delicate Ship’ Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The lights of the parking lot cast a perversely garish gloom on the crumbling brick side of the building next door. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The ending is undeniably tragic, but perversely unmoving, since most of the music Turnage provides for her never suggests or seems to look for sympathy. Anna Nicole - review 2011-02-18T01:07:14Z This third season of “Review” drives home the perversely comic sorrow of Forrest’s myopic existence, the result of gazing upon life from inside the world’s tiniest echo chamber. An unexamined life: “Review” returns for one last joke on its sadly hilarious host 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Vladimir is perversely tickled by her blasé attitude, and these soulless soul mates embrace, their rift mended. Movie Review: ?Elena,? by Andrei Zvyagintsev, Set In and Around Moscow 2012-05-15T22:34:55Z In a story that is repeating itself in other districts, subsequent city investment in urban renewal perversely led almost immediately to gentrification from around the turn of the century. Is hip Portland over? How the rent crisis is displacing the city's creative soul 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Honouring the local church's role in Gentry's musical education, Sermon shakes up the traditional spiritual Run On until the fire-and-brimstone message sounds perversely joyous. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z Almost all the research shows that children with a proper relationship with their father do better in all areas of their lives, a fact that our family courts perversely and doggedly continue to ignore. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z If these works aren’t made to agitate and challenge that audience, they end up merely — perversely — comforting it. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z I am perversely happy to use a popular expression I really dislike: You do you, Kerry! I’m Invited to the Wedding, Sort Of 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Directors invoke such comparisons at their peril, but in Edwards's case there's something perversely admirable about daring to aim so high, proving that he's not frightened of taking his subject matter seriously. Godzilla review – Gareth Edwards's reboot shows an appreciation of Ishiro Honda's original 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z A: At the time, the title of the film was "Arthur Newman Golf Pro" and I found it so off-putting, it perversely made me more intrigued. A Minute With: Colin Firth from royal to ordinary 'Arthur Newman' 2013-04-25T17:20:37Z But let’s return to “Mr. Turner,” anchored by a grunting, shambling, perversely charismatic performance by Timothy Spall, who was rewarded for his labor with the best actor prize at Cannes this spring. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Their dawning awareness of the trouble they’re all in is perversely entertaining to watch. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The movie almost perversely plays down the rigors of the journey, which could be a movie in itself. Review: ‘Mediterranea,’ African Migrants’ Perilous Trek to a Hostile Land 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It remains an all-time YouTube favourite, which perversely brings him close to despair. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z But when things go especially awry, they do so in perversely interesting ways. Be still, the unseemly beating of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps perversely, he blames the overwhelming success and technical excellence of the big spectacles that have become Hollywood’s bread and butter. Does Hollywood hate adults? 2012-07-07T22:00:00Z But the sedan made it through with nary a punctured tire, and there’s something perversely satisfying about taking an ill-equipped car into the sticks and returning it to an airport garage caked in dirt. At Basin and Range National Monument, Landscapes, Art and Aliens 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Its members stare into the audience with a perversely insinuating blankness. Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The book and my challenges to girlboss feminism focus on thinking of success and achievement in ways that are not perversely individualistic and capitalist. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z These oddball science fiction flops are original in sometimes perversely derivative ways. Follywood: how Valerian earns its place among film's strangest big budget flops 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z But Nolan's goal is to blend the two to produce smarter-than-average mass entertainment, while Refn erases the distinction in a fashion that seems perversely devoted to driving both constituencies out of the theater. "Valhalla Rising": What to see instead of "Inception" 2010-07-16T00:30:00Z You might think of this unsettling and imaginative production as a sort of perversely animated mixtape — a metaphor confirmed by the presence of a giant reel-to-reel recorder on the back wall of the set. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z And if you strip away the various questions and back stories involving the station’s strategy and just look at “Salem” as a television show, you’ve got to admit that it’s perversely entertaining. Television Review : ‘Salem,’ About You-Know-What, on WGN America 2014-04-17T23:24:42Z In her series “Alien Camp,” landscapes resemble the painted backdrops of old Westerns, while fake plants and taxidermied animals look almost real and, as Rothem put it, “perversely perfect.” “Alien Camp”: Marianna Rothen’s Polaroids 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Until that point, my closest relationships had been marked by uncertainty and loss, and they felt, perversely, safe. He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s legitimate to dislike this film, of course; one of the things I appreciated about “Bel Ami,” perhaps perversely, is how forcefully it resists easy enjoyment. Pick of the week: Robert Pattinson plays a real monster 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z The works themselves are almost perversely mannered fusions of those postmodern staples, set-up photography and rephotography that, on their own, render obsession opaque. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z Some of this is perversely comes from feminists too, which is weird to say. Why women lie about sex 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s the “It’s alive!” moment of the show, when the thin wall between comedy and horror crumbles and what emerges is a perversely funny and refreshingly rare hybrid genre stitched together with wonderfully weird parts. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z His lyrics are often callous but at times they’re perversely insightful, about both bad decisions and the psychological motivations that underpin them. Music Review: Too Short Brings Bay Area Rap to the Knitting Factory 2012-01-30T22:51:39Z The very fact that you want to work in social services means, perversely, that you’re likely to earn a lot less money than someone who wants to market pesticides. I’m Drowning in $100,000 of Debt. But Someone Wants to Help. 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Horst is an interesting case — forthright but also perversely myopic. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Pino Donaggio’s vivid, sensuous, perversely jaunty musical score emphasizes the almost campy artifice of the drama, which is played out by actors who rarely seem to believe what they are saying. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z It also yawns between the thrill of this production when it sings and its perversely melodramatic flatness when it’s behaving like a traditional play. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Less predictable than mere grown-up fairy tales, the curiously captivating stories in this collection map out a natural world that we perversely imagine ourselves to be outside. Beyond Angry Birds: great cellphone reads 2013-03-01T21:31:28Z But the other fantasy here is perversely quotidian: It’s about getting a job, one of 12 available, from cook to alchemist to tailor to mercenary. In Fantasy Life and Other Games, Jobs and To-Do Lists 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The upshot is that the audience feels perversely grateful when the house lights go down a mere 45 minutes after Guns N' Roses were billed to appear. Guns N' Roses - review 2010-10-14T20:30:00Z Simulated violence is, arguably and perversely, an efficient means to generating fun through interactivity. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Caring About Make-Believe Body Counts 2012-12-24T19:26:02Z And watching Spall’s Irving purr and snigger as he makes his case—he represented himself instead of securing counsel—is both maddening and perversely enjoyable. Review: Denial Takes on the Bullying Bluster of Liars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z I actually cooked so much during the last four months that perversely I started to like it more and more rather than less and less. Would You Like to Come Over for Dinner … in 10 Years? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It was unnerving, if also perversely captivating, to read this account of the Paradise disaster while in the midst of our current, slower-moving catastrophe. How Paradise Went Up in Flames 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It seems perversely, even tragically, appropriate that an institution founded in New York’s original Gilded Age may be foundering amid the financial pressures and preoccupations that characterize our freshly gilded Manhattan of today. The Cooper Union Tragedy 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z It's such a niche joke, but perversely that's why it has been so successful on Twitter. Trailer trash 2013-03-10T00:05:47Z It's a shame that a critic so perversely unable to access the near-universal joy and admiration of his fellow theater goers should be placed in such a powerful position. Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Mesh by knotted mesh, it’s a net we have woven, perversely, by unweaving the web of life. Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z The thing that killed my father, perversely, was something that could have killed a 30-year-old jogging enthusiast. My father, the smoker: John Jeremiah Sullivan book extract 2013-03-02T09:00:00Z Visually extremely striking, aurally distinctive, wonderfully acted, violent, mystifying, perversely inspirational. A Spaghetti Western Roundup at Film Forum 2012-06-02T15:03:01Z It is a lot uglier and also, perversely, a lot more fun. Movie Review: ‘Battle Royale,’ Directed by Kinji Fukasaku 2012-05-24T23:38:04Z But “Cosmopolis,” which some critics in Cannes faulted for being too static, is an almost perversely faithful rendition of the book. Film: ‘Cosmopolis,’ Cronenberg’s Take on Don DeLillo 2012-08-03T16:00:00Z Very funny, perversely touching, and way more thoughtful than anticipated. TV highlights 14/02/2013 2013-02-14T07:00:12Z Her death-obsessed character functions in the film as a kind of perversely adorable memento mori, deflecting the looming specter of sentimentality and providing a constant reminder that not all change is for the good. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z Yet still, perversely, he can touch the heart. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z But perversely, what I most wanted to see were photos of them together — and they were not in short supply. Facebook stalking his ex-girlfriend 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Man in the High Castle” may have been embraced by some as perversely inspirational tales of resistance to the Trumpian present. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Still, if you believe in the sanctity of marriage, then you might find the ending perversely heartwarming. Review: In ‘Monsoon Season,’ a Marital Squall Turns Ugly 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Peppers are so ubiquitous and versatile that they can, perversely, be easy to overlook. Yotam Ottolenghi’s pepper recipes 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Few words might be as open to misinterpretation as “consent,” from the Latin consentire — literally, and almost perversely, “to feel together.” Yes, No, Maybe So: A Generation of Thinkers Grapples With Notions of Consent 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z And, yes, when a man is as at odds with himself as Billy is, a kiss and a slap are perversely interchangeable. London Theater Journal: A 'Carousel' That Really Moves 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z After pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge for misleading regulators in 2007, the company perversely doubled down on opioids by developing a painkiller patch. In ‘Empire of Pain,’ the American Dynasty Behind OxyContin 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Historic Discrimination Some observers, including Native Americans themselves, wonder whether the historic discrimination against Native peoples has perversely spawned a culture that rejects modern values such as respect for women. Navajos’ bad medicine 2012-10-08T18:15:00Z But it reveals why the average person may not be paying as much attention to the Panama Papers’ revelations as they should, which is that Americans perversely lionize “Scarface” villain Tony Montana. “The system is rigged”: How the crimes of “The Panama Papers” affect us all 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Intelligent and substantial though Clegg may well be, the media excitement and amazement is still perversely, and perhaps even mischievously, centred on his no-hoper image. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z Mr. Murphy also finds his subject to be perversely, almost purposefully, ineffectual. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z A five-part epic on his bizarre relationship with a painting of a man he talks to achieves a perversely silly melancholy tone. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z He doesn't have a particularly large voice, but it's so well-focused and perversely beautiful in tone that we hang on his every word. A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage 2012-06-24T11:27:08Z A perversely dutiful banner at the bottom of the screen asks “Need Help Now?” and points viewers having suicidal thoughts to 13reasonswhy.info. “13 Reasons Why” Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Gilmartin takes this cliché seriously, creating a perversely safe place in which he and his guests talk about their fears, addictions and traumatic childhoods. Riff: Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy. 2012-02-03T22:00:07Z In 2002, he was active in defeating the attempted coup by a group of rightwing actors who were perversely convinced that Equity had been politicised by Labour members, to the disadvantage of ordinary performers. John Burgess obituary 2011-01-02T18:22:59Z In the show’s second half, Prudencia discovers the hypnotic, perversely sensual landscape of life after life and the respective powers of poetry and prose. Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z And the perversely uninformative album sleeve didn't help. Hidden treasures: Anthony Adverse – The Red Shoes 2013-01-17T12:53:54Z This leads to an “As You Like It” that perversely ignores the pleasure promised in its title, with little comedy and less poetry. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z If every director, at every level of ambition, were making commercially ambitious movies about women, The Boy Next Door wouldn’t feel so perversely refreshing. The Boy Next Door Is the Bad Movie Hollywood Needs Right Now 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The slightly stuffy ambience of these rooms is enlivened considerably by Copley’s perversely decorative paintings. Art In Review: ?INTERIORS?: Pierre Bonnard, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, William Copley, ?douard Vuillard 2012-01-19T23:50:04Z Even the perversely noble Satan of “Paradise Lost,” after nine days of torture by fire, knows only one purpose: “immortal hate” and “eternal War irreconcileable” against the power of heaven. Heinrich Himmler, family man: Why “The Decent One” is the most haunting documentary I’ve ever seen 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z It has already become a cliché to observe that the pandemic has been perversely kind to dogs: they are seldom home alone now, and they are walked almost more than they can bear. Who’s a good boy? The unbreakable bond between humans and dogs 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z What of the perversely distorted view of American chattel slavery where somehow it was "poor whites" who had it "worse" than black human property? Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s a perversely compelling moment — war personified, becoming a crusader for righteousness. What Would Wonder Woman Say About Justice Today? Ask G. Willow Wilson 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s the human factor, to borrow somewhat perversely a phrase from Graham Greene, who worked for Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6. Movie Review: ‘Skyfall,’ With Daniel Craig as James Bond 2012-11-07T19:59:51Z It is a hymn from a fan to an act that — miraculously and perversely — refuses to add up. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s especially painful to watch Ms. Faris, so perversely funny in films like “Smiley Face” and “The House Bunny,” reduced to big smiles and false heartiness. Jellystone Gets Animated 2010-12-17T11:04:39Z An odd little smile crosses the face of Bobby Smith as he relates the disordered thoughts of presidential killer Charles J. Guiteau in Signature Theatre’s perversely entertaining revival of “Assassins.” Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But to look the other way because of the scale of the problem would be to treat injustice, perversely, as too big to fail. Opinion: Why shouldn't elephants have rights? They're intelligent beings who can feel joy and sorrow 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z "Evidently, council budgets are tight. But elsewhere in the borough, Haringey Council is making great investments in parks. And perversely, this deal appears to deliver less money for Finsbury Park", the group said. Wireless Festival to be held at Finsbury Park for next five years 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z "Any current optimism about China is perversely premised on expectations of further and more emphatic stimulus to compensate for the shortfall in stimulus efforts thus far." Bears retreat on Asian FX, but ringgit and yuan stuck in tight grip: Reuters poll 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Trump's greatest asset, perversely, is his bottomless talent for scandal, corruption and crime which inevitably motivates the Republicans to circle the wagons around him. The legal dominoes finally start to fall against Trump 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z He sees all women as inherently dangerous and, perversely, as predators. How Trump may be coping with being caught 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z "The peer review process was so cruel, it was almost funny, but I treated it as a learning experience and, perversely, began to enjoy it." Cambridge University's Jason Arday becomes youngest black professor 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Waves 30 to 40 feet high are common in winter as river energy and ocean energy collide and then perversely recombine, swirling in complex patterns driven by tidal surges, winds and storms. In a Treacherous Corner of Washington, a Classroom With 40-Foot Waves 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The quarterback’s demise was perversely celebrated, each of Denver’s rare victories lamented. Russell Wilson gets a lifeline with Broncos’ hiring of Sean Payton 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z On several occasions, I found myself rooting, rather perversely, for both teams to stymie each other, to cap the total runs at, say, eight and protect my bet. Sports-Betting Apps Transform Clueless Spectators Into Rabid Fans. Trust Me. 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z He may be looking at a criminal indictment, and perversely enough, that might be exactly what he needs. Elon is the new Trump: But how long can he hold the No. 1 Troll title? 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Ohio State was discouraging for the high-achieving student but perversely nourishing to the young artist. At 91, Adrienne Kennedy Is Finally on Broadway. What Took So Long? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Others warn that the push for hydrogen might end up boosting the non-green kind as well, and therefore perversely increasing CO2 emissions. How the Hydrogen Revolution Can Help Save the Planet—and How It Can’t 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, the group’s mailers use an impressive amount of doublespeak and perversely call equity a “code word” for exclusion. Asian Americans: Resist racist rhetoric about affirmative action 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Hand rolls must be eaten quickly, or their nori perversely becomes both soft and tough. Restaurant review: A very sad lunch at Seattle’s Sugo Hand Roll Bar 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Yet media organizations, who have pumped tens of thousands of dollars into surveys, feel compelled to run their work — and outlandish results can, perversely, earn more clicks online. Pollsters still searching for fixes as 2022 voting nears 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “We the undersigned join together calling on members of Congress to prevent taxpayer funded properties from being perversely turned into abortion vendors,” the activist groups wrote. Pro-life groups urge Congress to spurn push for abortion clinics on federal land 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Somehow, this parade of appalling human behavior is perversely reassuring. Review | ‘Lost Illusions’ is Balzac for the 21st century 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Ukraine also benefits, perversely, from the experience it has gained in eight years of war against Russia and its proxies. Opinion | How Russia’s vaunted cyber capabilities were frustrated in Ukraine 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps most perversely, medical debt is blocking patients from care. 100 million people in America are saddled with health care debt 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Suicide, which accounts for two-thirds of gun deaths, does present a challenge for this approach, since paying liabilities to surviving family members could, perversely, incentivize such acts. Perspective | The case for mandatory gun-liability insurance 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Ethnographic sculpture was perversely complicated with a wild mix of objectives and motivations, and this exhibition does a good job of revealing that complexity. Review | One of history’s most seductive and troubling representations of race 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Authoritarian regimes always cast themselves as the guardians of morality, and cast all who oppose them as perversely evil, deserving the severest of punishments. Why is the right so obsessed with bathroom issues? Behind the new wave of anti-LGBTQ attacks 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z That willingness to be in the same room with Trump, perversely, only helped bolster her image as a "reasonable" person who had no intention of forcing her fundamentalism on the American public. Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In their paper’s Supplementary Information, they argue that the situation “perversely disincentivises open science, since the people who do most to make their data openly available could be least likely to merit recognition”. Your Brain Expands and Shrinks over Time: These Charts Show How 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z They accuse the document of perversely down-playing the fastest and cheapest ways of combating energy dependency - namely, energy efficiency, onshore wind and solar power. Why many experts aren't impressed with the UK's energy plans 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z In fact, a closed system for DSI will perversely impact scientists in developing countries the most. ‘It’s a thorny issue.’ Why a fight over DNA data imperils a global conservation pact 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z “Were this to happen, it would perversely have the same corrosive impact on our democracy as foreign interference itself.” An alleged Chinese interference plot stirs fears — and smears — ahead of Australian elections 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Quiet and Reserved: Everybody’s wrong, in fairly balanced distribution, which makes me kind of perversely happy. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Wife insists husband’s the reason her friends are leaving her out 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z That outcome would be perversely symmetrical with this: Opinion | Build Back Better would make Biden’s annus horribilis even worse 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z In this greatest of Mr. Sondheim’s works, which is, for many, the best American musical, we are forced to understand and, more perversely, root for some of the worst deeds ever imagined for the stage. The Essential Musical Dramatist Who Taught Us to Hear 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z This perversely means that in many respects small space rocks are harder to deal with than large ones, in which gravity’s heavy hand overwhelms most material properties. NASA’s DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And, perversely, Washington’s slow October also comes as many employers are still struggling to find enough workers. Job growth slows in Washington, even as it surges nationally 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Rauch points out that social media almost seem perversely designed to implement the opposite of those conventions. Steven Pinker: "I'm trying to resolve how we can be so rational and irrational at the same time" 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Convolutedly self-involved, he perversely embraces his “daily shame” as a way to connect with “the sufferings of Christ.” Jonathan Franzen kicks off a new trilogy with his brilliant latest novel, ‘Crossroads’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z "In the UK, we're almost halfway towards our target, as of last year, in part helped perversely by the Covid crisis," he said. TUC: Jobs at risk if UK fails to hit carbon emissions target 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z They were referring to states such as Florida that have perversely barred masks. The kids are all right; it’s the adults who have gone bonkers over the pandemic 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Although the cesarean backlash arose from an impulse to empower women, it has perversely also become another way to shame mothers, or make them feel inadequate, as soon as they’ve given birth. A Personal History of the C-Section 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Rather cultural and material exchanges that maintain local self-reliance and respect ecological sustainability would replace present-day globalization—which perversely allows goods and finances to flow freely but stops desperate humans at borders. These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The extremely public nature of Trump's incitement, however, perversely gave congressional Republicans the cover they needed to claim he didn't do the thing he obviously did. "Planned in plain sight": Why Donald Trump makes no attempt to hide his insurrectionist plots 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z It would be revolutionary if we didn’t reduce it to a hero said/she said conversation in which the accused perversely shares victimhood with the accusers. Perspective | The Deshaun Watson allegations are excruciating, but we must not look away 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z My efforts to understand how imaginary numbers map onto the real world have led me, perversely, in the opposite direction. I'm Agonizing over My Naive Realism 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z “There’s a rhetoric of reaction which seeks to claim that it’s defending these higher values, which, perversely, often are the very values it’s traducing,” he said. Opinion | The Campaign to Cancel Wokeness 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “That way, the choice becomes perversely easier because there are fewer options left.” Brinkmanship or Bluster? On Brexit and Pandemic, Boris Johnson Leaves It Late 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z But it is also entertaining as a TV product, and perversely authentic in some ways. Relentless Bayern Munich have mastered art of football in lockdown | Barney Ronay 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z There is something poetic, even perversely satisfying, about seeing Trump’s delusions about his own power and imperviousness defied by his infection. America has a superspreader president. He put us all - and himself - at risk | Moira Donegan 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health insurance system perversely unsuited to the moment—these and other afflictions are surely contributing to the death toll. Nations who have recovered fasted quarantined the fastest. The ruling elites won't allow that here 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Either way, this tiny iPod is perversely adorable — and quite the in-joke if it’s real. This suspected Apple Watch prototype is disguised as a tiny iPod 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Republicans understand this power of the mind and use it perversely. Yale psychiatrist: Trump’s convention lies and fear-mongering may “provoke a lot of violence” 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z It may formulate its own goals or interpret our goals in perversely literal ways that turn out to be harmful to us. Who Wants to Be a Cyborg? 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Still, there are those who will turn to hate, finding it — perversely — to be a kind of balm. Opinion | White Supremacy Was Her World. And Then She Left. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z But more likely for small towns, the boom years give way to protracted difficult times and, perversely, add fodder for the museums. Nothing captures a small town’s character, soul and past like its museum — but their futures face serious modern-day perils 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z It was also a major slap at Trump, whose administration has gone perversely far out of its way not merely to halt advances during the Obama years but to turn back the clock. Opinion | Trump the Troglodyte 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z That revelation is making me think that screens might be perversely better at connecting us than face-to-face workplace life. Children interrupting Zoom meetings could be the reboot corporate culture needed | Catharine Lumby 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z News media habitually tiptoe around deadly realities of economic oppression that are hidden in plain sight — so normalized that they're apt to seem perversely natural. Corporate media is focusing on racism at last — but ducking economic injustice 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z I have spoken my piece about Biden, who strikes me as perversely ill-suited to this moment or, to put it another way, as the perfect symbol of his party's rootlessness and self-hatred. What we've lost in the plague — and what we've gained: A chance to remake America 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z On the other hand, when government services do fail — as has happened on occasion at the IRS — that perversely can become justification for whacking budgets further. Opinion | The covid-19 pandemic has revealed another area of critical government underinvestment 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Criminals, fallen kings, sacrificial victims, they are almost perversely unrepresentative of the everyday life of their lost societies. Letter of Recommendation: Bog Bodies 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z We are physically disconnected but, perversely, we are more connected to our colleagues’ lives. Children interrupting Zoom meetings could be the reboot corporate culture needed | Catharine Lumby 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Most Americans are abiding by instructions to stay home, a reality perversely highlighted by the abrupt slowdown in the economy. As coronavirus spreads, so do doubts about America’s ability to meet the moment 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Retired judge Patrick Coghlin, who led the inquiry, said "corrupt or malicious activity" was not responsible for the design flaws that saw applicants "perversely incentivized" to burn excess heat to turn a profit. World Digest: March 13, 2020 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Retired judge Patrick Coghlin, who led the inquiry, said “corrupt or malicious activity” was not responsible for the design flaws that saw applicants “perversely incentivised” to burn excess heat to turn a profit. Judge says N Ireland eco-scandal not caused by corruption 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z However, such a system is vulnerable to gerrymandering and vote splitting and, perversely, only protects communities of color that live in highly segregated neighborhoods. Millions of Democratic votes were lost in the primaries. Is this the fix? | Mohit Nair and Colin Cole 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z But, perversely, the United States does worse in critical areas — such as the rate of homicides by firearms and the rate of children living in single-parent households — than Western nations that are less religious. Opinion | William Barr’s America vs. reality in 2020 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The run-up in Iranian equities perversely stems from the country’s status as an international pariah. Iran’s Economy Is Bleak. Its Stock Market Is Soaring. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But the true extent of the disgraced lawmaker’s downfall was perversely worse: The criminal conspiracy also swept up Cameron Collins and his future father-in-law. With One Crime, an Ex-Congressman Damaged 2 Families 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z And if so, should investors be perversely hoping for even more bad news? It’s a Topsy-Turvy World. Can We Make Some Money From That? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Whatever epithet you choose, you have to admit that Flappy Bird was a work of art: a game so ludicrously simple and perversely difficult that it operated less as entertainment and more as spiritual provocation. The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z While Australia was sweltering, North America was freezing thanks to a disruption of the polar vortex that might, perversely, be linked to the warming of Arctic waters. 2019 has been a year of climate disaster. Yet still our leaders procrastinate | Geoff Goldrick 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Our very neurochemical composition makes us want to perfect ourselves—which perversely has led us, in the guise of Adderall and many other drugs, to want to change our neurochemical make-up. The Runaway Train of Cognitive Enhancement 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The result, perversely, is that central instruments of democracy, including freedom of speech and the free press, are being weaponized in order to dismantle it. If loving conspiracy theories is wrong, Republicans don't wanna be right 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The party’s apparent lack of a plan for Trump’s Trumpiness is, perversely, the plan itself. Opinion | Trump without the Trumpiness would win reelection in a landslide 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z To be offered an escape from conservative parents, persuaded they were doing something at once fiercely adventurous and perversely liberating – such delusions seemed incomprehensible to the white female columnists criticising them. From ‘our girls’ to ‘brides of Isis’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z But some experts say the contribution and spending caps in I-122, designed to restrict money’s influence, perversely led special interests to seek a workaround. Seattle a model of democracy? Big money is swamping our elections like never before. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Fox can also perversely benefit from certain Trump attacks - they make the point that there’s more to the network than Hannity’s unabashed love, he said. Fox News personalities fire back amid Trump attacks: ‘Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z But, perversely, because wildfires are classified as natural catastrophes, their emissions are not counted against legal quotas. A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z At the dentist, I am perversely proud when I glimpse my dental chart: Refused X-rays. Letter of Recommendation: Double Boilers 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z One insight of the study is that although the United States spends $44 billion a year on affordable housing, that money perversely concentrates poverty in blighted neighborhoods. Opinion | A Better Address Can Change a Child’s Future 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Now, though, Fairtrade’s success in helping to build a world of heightened expectations of sustainability is perversely paving the way to its own demise. Is fair trade finished? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z In the case of arsenic, it would perversely allow increased discharges of this dangerous toxic heavy metal in our waters because it is also “naturally occurring.” More mercury in the fish we eat? Don’t let the EPA weaken water-quality rules 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z For all the simmering emotional undercurrents, the talk is perversely uninteresting. Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo’ is the disaster of the Cannes Film Festival 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Unless his Targaryen genes turn him nuts as well, which is a perversely intriguing thought. ‘Game of Thrones’: 7 (possibly futile) hopes for Sunday's season finale 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The US last week also removed waivers on nuclear co-operation with Iran, including the shipment abroad of excess supplies, perversely making it much harder for Iran to keep to the stockpile limits. Iran nuclear deal: what has Tehran said and what happens next? 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Like American Psycho, many of these books had to fight their way into print, which was often perversely helpful. Would American Psycho be published today? How shocking books have changed with their readers 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The answer is activities, although “safari” is the perversely tropical term of choice: you can go on a reindeer safari, a husky safari, an ice-fishing safari, a snowmobile safari, a king-crab safari. Chasing the Aurora Borealis 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z From the 13th hole on it was the South African’s putting that perversely did him in. The GOAT: Woods and Miller get testy, Palmer and Norman get a shot at revenge as match play begins - Golf Digest 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “It discriminates against smaller broker dealers who end up almost perversely subsidizing the cost of the whole exchange relationship for the largest firms,” he said. Exclusive: U.S. SEC scrutinizes fairness of stock exchange pricing 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z “I’m an isolated and a motivated man,” Malakian sneers in the perversely cheerful “Sickening Wars,” “I’ve been nominated for the best Armenian tan.” Why Daron Malakian considers Scars on Broadway his only band 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z More perversely, the law, according to Malouf, could have resulted in more overdose deaths, not fewer. Mississippi editorial roundup 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The result is a very New York scenario: great megaliths loom above tiny historic fragments, perversely protecting them in perpetuity in the process. Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z While the aid workers seek to avoid prison time, Americans may well wonder about a system in which justice is rendered so perversely. Opinion | Convicted for leaving water for migrants in the desert: This is Trump’s justice 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z “This all becomes perversely useful for the BJP in the run-up to elections” due this year, said Paul Staniland, a political science professor focused on South Asia at the University of Chicago. Fight against India joins 2 Kashmir teens in life and death 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z What most of us will remember about him on court was his extraordinary will to overcome, to repeatedly, perversely rise from the depths, leaving his opponent bewildered. Andy Murray: a career of grit and triumph nears an emotional close | Kevin Mitchell 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The Jewish people were perversely viewed as plague carriers and spreaders of typhus, and this became a nontrivial contributing reason for the triggering of the Holocaust. A Biologist Reconstructs the Grotesque Efficiency of the Nazis' Killing Machine 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z “Unaccountable regulatory agencies dominate how we live, work, play, build, travel, prepare food and heal one another — and perversely drive people away from common-sense decisions,” Mr. Lassman said in a statement. ‘Free to Prosper’: Competitive Enterprise Institute offers Congress a pro-growth agenda 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The fact that Seattle’s undoing was largely strategic — a stubborn and ill-advised adherence to the run-centric game plan — should also be perversely comforting. Seahawks have obvious goal for next season: Win the division and play at home 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z As such, many of these stories end up creating a kind of social dissonance whereby, perversely, they cause more harm than good. The tall stories we tell ourselves about happiness 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z “The clause is perversely posing more career risk to women and minorities than to white males.” Opinion | Must Writers Be Moral? Their Contracts May Require It 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z There is a generation of Conservative MPs who seem perversely traumatised by the peace and prosperity of the Europe in which they grew up. Don’t expect Brexit to give us a British Alexander Hamilton | Rafael Behr 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Those perversely reversed ideas about freedom were the ones that found a home in U.S. policy, and, well, here we were. The Philosopher Redefining Equality 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The city’s incinerator, perversely named Detroit Renewable Power, exceeded emissions limits more than 750 times over the last five years, contributing to one of the highest rates of asthma in the country. The answer to plastic pollution is to not create waste in the first place | Monica Wilson 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z As a product of an educated, leftist social circle, I knew – perversely – that my power, a fundamentally greater power, was structural. ‘I felt like an impostor’: a mixed-race American in Africa 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Not that long ago, Yorgos Lanthimos’ perversely cryptic film “Dogtooth” couldn’t find a theater in Los Angeles willing to play it. Mark Olsen's best movies of 2018: 'If Beale Street Could Talk' stands out in a year that tried to make sense of madness 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z I do care when you take the voting result out of the hands of the people and perversely change it within your own halls of power. Working to Ensure the ‘Year of the Woman’ Is More Than Just One Year 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Except that – suddenly, perversely – the later work isn’t marginal at all. Pop's dark star: the return of Andy Warhol 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z What takes over a heart, infects a soul so perversely that a person sees murder, terror and violent crimes and immediately begins plotting how such misdeeds might benefit himself? Donald Trump at fault for all political incivility? 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The story of Pocahontas, perversely, first became a symbol of national pride among white Americans during an era of forced Indian removal. Perspective | How Pocahontas — the myth and the slur — props up white supremacy 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s perversely heartening to see that the apparent murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi seems to have temporarily interrupted business as usual. Opinion | Let’s Agree Not to Kill One Another 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z It can be perversely edifying for people like first responders, morticians and firefighters. The online community where people watch other people die 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z During that decade of heedless violence and persecution, show trials and public struggle sessions were tools that the state used to both intimidate the population and, perversely, to discredit accusations of abuses of power. Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star and the Interpol Chief Vanish? 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Inequality isn’t just changing the way we deal with economics – it’s perversely altering how we see ourselves and what we value. Net worth v self worth: do we all need inequality therapy? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Some women feel perversely flattered at being chosen by such men, as though they had been singled out from the ordinary run of womankind. The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z “I think those protests ironically and perversely helped the candidacy of the ‘law and order’ president, Richard Nixon.” ‘A party that had lost its mind’: In 1968, Democrats held one of history’s most disastrous conventions 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The plays are oddly constructed; perversely off-kilter; gaudily offensive and random. Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z But they were perversely, patiently canny in a way the Belgians hadn’t planned for. World Cup 2018: Kylian Mbappé and France Troll Their Way to the Final 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z It works by perversely creating a version of an inter-temporal justice which reduces justice to a set of appropriate feelings, or to the generation of a more appropriate affect of a certain kind. Scholar Robert Meister on a new model: Using the financial markets to fuel historical justice 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z And in an era when we’re told to practice self-love, there’s something perversely glorious about wallowing in such a cesspool of self-loathing. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Live Like a French Woman’ Books 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Following Bloom around Dublin, Joyce seems to thwart, perversely, our desire for a linear story line. Bloomsday Tribute to James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z That, perversely, would lower bond prices, raise interest rates and possibly trigger a panic. Opinion | Italy’s turmoil could threaten the world economy 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The Rockets alas picked this night to embark on a perversely impressive exercise in missed jump shooting. You Knew the Warriors Were Coming Back. The Rockets Did, Too. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z He’s even happy to remember “getting raked out and bleeding from the head or whatever”, prompting a perversely happy exchange about the days when rucking meant flashing studs slashing at any available extremity. HR McMaster on rugby: 'The warrior ethos is what a good team has' 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z It suggests, perversely, unseriously, that there is no real suffering in the world. What Does It Mean to Look at This? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Predominantly Republican and perversely gerrymandered, the Lone Star State is where Democrats send their dreams to die. Opinion | Will Democrats Win the House? Ask Texas 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Or a future where two nuclear-armed superpowers face each other across the perversely named Pacific Ocean, without the mediating power of commerce. China’s tech grab: Where Trump has a point on trade 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But where Ignatius’s arrogance is almost perversely charming, Bob is, at best, a cipher for Penn, who has a bewilderingly wide capacity for both strongly liberal and robustly conservative attitudes. Sean Penn's debut novel – repellent and stupid on so many levels 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Brazil’s scandal, known as Operação Lava Jato, or Operation Car Wash, is as perversely spectacular as the most extravagantly imagined crime novel or Machiavellian episode of “House of Cards.” ‘It’s a crazy situation’: Brazil’s jaw-dropping corruption scandal comes to Netflix 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z All the while, our society is filled with “professionals” who keep making self-serving excuses for not effectively treating the mentally disturbed and “Hollywood” propagandists who perversely twist what it means to bear arms. Counter Culture Mom gives truth on ‘student’ gun protests 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Kobach tells the House Higher Education Budget Committee that state law perversely incentivizes immigrants living in Kansas illegally to attend college. Kobach tries to halt in-state tuition for non-US citizens 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “Until the end I was perversely trying to fix what I had already done,” Kim wrote. U.S. charges Chicago trader with stealing bitcoin 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Edward Abbey's answers were strongly individualistic, perversely contradictory. Celebrating 50 years of the California desert 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Leading environmental groups have applauded and shared the colorful, perversely engaging images. Anxious about climate change? There’s a cow-farting-methane emoji for that. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Charles I: King and Collector Great paintings by Mantegna, Titian, Rubens, Holbein, Durer and Tintoretto feature in this perversely hagiographic homage to a king who drove his subjects to rebel. Glorious art from a dreadful king and the cosmos in a plastic cup – the week in art 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Instead, she recalled an era where girls would physically fight off unwanted sexual advances, perversely reminiscing about an old kind of “strength”, instead of yearning for a new kind of freedom. The Aziz Ansari furore isn’t the end of #MeToo. It’s just the beginning | Sarah Solemani 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z “Until the end I was perversely trying to fix what I had already done,” Kim wrote. U.S. charges Chicago trader with stealing bitcoin 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z I sometimes wonder if, perversely, he got points for the fact that he would never disillusion Americans. Opinion | Donald Trump’s Radical Honesty 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Accomplished women who manage to make it to the top may 'pull up the ladder behind them', perversely believing that if other women are less successful, then one's own success seems even greater. Does Gender Matter? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The layers of equivocation in this statement are many, varied and perversely artful. ‘What did the doctor say?’: A simple question with a difficult answer 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But perversely, the Seahawks at times seemed intent on making Graham into something he is not. Jimmy Graham as a Seahawk: The star who never was 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z It’s that Alma, in undertaking her strange, singular mission, is perversely elevated to the standing of an artist in her own right. Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps bring a wondrously perverse love story to life in 'Phantom Thread' 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Perhaps by keeping Tillerson in place, Trump perversely wants to show that reports of his troubles were just more “fake news.” Opinion | Trump likes Mattis. Will it last? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Haneke has often been dinged as both a punishing moralist and a perversely withholding storyteller, and so it’s fitting that his masterstroke in “Happy End,” delivered almost with a shrug, is the withholding of punishment. Michael Haneke's 'Happy End' is a disquieting, blisteringly funny evisceration of the bourgeoisie 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s a pain we perversely crave, a feeling that’s as pleasurable as it is uncomfortable. The Sweet Rewards of Bitter Food 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I was personally relieved to get the quick, though qualified, apology that Halperin provided to CNN — perversely, it was more than I was expecting. Opinion | I’m one of Mark Halperin’s accusers. He’s part of a bigger problem we need to fix. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z A number of Columbia alumni are perversely proud of dismal football results, believing they reflect academic superiority. Columbia Football Keeps Winning. Some Fans Aren’t Happy About It. 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It was raunchy, hilarious and a sign of light at the end of this perversely pungent tunnel. Opinion | Will Pumpkin Spice Destroy Us All? 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The inverse is also true: Brokerage firms that produce junk research — nonstop “buy” recommendations, for example — are perversely rewarded by the soft-dollar payments they receive on trades. New Skirmish in an Old Battle: Wall Street vs. the Customer 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The English climate also limits production mainly to the south of England, although rather perversely, things could improve in that respect because of global warming. The English wine makers taking on the Europeans - BBC News 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z An infant cry is characterized by a simple, clear, fundamental tone and a relatively long, unbroken “melodic structure,” as it is perversely called, that falls and rises and falls and tails off in unpredictable ways. A Baby Wails, and the Adult World Comes Running 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Yet perversely, Mr. Trump is matching his passivity toward Iran’s regional meddling with an apparent determination to torpedo the nuclear pact. Opinion | Trump may be planning to make a very bad decision on the Iran deal 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z This moment in fact may be, perversely, promising. On Health Care, a Promise, Not a Threat 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z In a Facebook post Thursday morning, the former Alaska governor accused “perversely biased” news media for “attempting to destroy innocent people with lies and more fake news.” Sarah Palin blasts NYT editorial that falsely tied her to Gabby Giffords shooting 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The argument for government-subsidized broadcasting is perversely circular: If the public were enlightened, there would be no need for government subsidies. Opinion | Public broadcasting’s immortality defies reason 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z And standing, perversely, amidst the beautiful idyllic greenery of the White House rose garden, he proceeded to make the fate of the world just that: a fundamentally flawed talking point. Why Trump's attempt to pit Pittsburgh against Paris is absurd | Lucia Graves 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Worse, several financing features of the House bill perversely encourage the use of work requirements to drive people off Medicaid. Opinion | The GOP hates red tape — except when it comes to giving poor people health care 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Israeli rightists, by contrast, seem perversely contented with the thought that the P.A. would collapse if Abbas exits. Mahmoud Abbas, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Peace 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z He worries too that if other countries perceive the tax as protectionist and retaliate accordingly, the tax might perversely encourage companies to put their manufacturing plants outside the U.S. Boeing backs ‘border adjustment’ tax overhaul, though critics fear it could stir up trade wars 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The Haggler will also confess that he finds something perversely appealing about a company owner who revels in tweaking his customers. Unhappy Customers Make Him Happy, and Rich 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Holman W. Jenkins Jr. of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page memorably referred to this mammoth giveaway as something that “perversely treats the richest taxpayers as the neediest.” Are You Middle Class Enough to Deserve a Health Care Tax Break? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z It happened to be the day of the Brexit vote, but, perversely, Jungle wisdom had it that it might be a good time to try, since the political situation was unsettled. Europe’s Child-Refugee Crisis 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z But, perversely, Trump’s policies could also have the opposite effect: a new influx of undocumented workers. The predictably unpredictable president: In California farm country, Trump’s deportation threat looms large 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Yet the sheer number of times my father had courted death and then recovered had, perversely, made him seem indomitable. When Things Go Missing 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Of course in the long run, perversely, it did nothing but boost the book’s prominence and turbo-charge sales. Brad Stone: ‘We should watch Uber and Airbnb closely’ 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Unlike some countries, Argentina owes its structural poverty not to limited natural or human resources, but rather to a perversely uneven distribution of wealth and a regressive tax system. Where science and nonsense collide 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Could lowering the height of the hit, perversely, be rugby’s big-bang moment? New initiative to tighten up tackle law may be rugby’s big-bang moment | Robert Kitson 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Anselm Kiefer’s Walhalla was so laden with images of modern history’s most nightmarish moments that it was perversely thrilling, even sardonically gleeful at the spectacle of everything coming to a catastrophic climax. Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z This further polarizes the nation, both economically and politically, which, perversely, further cements the power of the oligarchs. No middle class, no republic: GOP plans to destroy America’s safety net will also kill democracy 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z But Rangel is also perversely hopeful that a Trump presidency will be so jarring, it will unite Democrats and Republicans in Congress at last, at least on some issues. Retiring congressman: Trump presidency like ‘a bad dream’ 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z That, perversely, is what made him so dangerous and, for a long time, so good. Bernard Hopkins will be missed but his is a tarnished legacy | Kevin Mitchell 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The strictures of running his own small business have proved perversely satisfying. Cheap Eats: Some of Seattle’s greatest food isn’t found at the priciest places 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z By forcing car makers and their customers to invest in economically unjustified fuel-saving technology, they’ve already perversely contributed to last summer’s breaking of a decade-old record for miles traveled and fuel burned. Green Elites Face Trump Threat 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z One thing that strikes me about McInerney’s image in that era is that he was only a “bad boy” in comparison to some perversely old-fashioned idea of the novelist. Jay McInerney: 'You can only blow up your life so many times before it becomes ridiculous' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z IT WAS clear from its start that the aim of the House’s perversely named Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives was to put a stop to fetal-tissue research. GOP ideology is curtailing vital medical research 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The US deputy ambassador, David Pressman, said: “One of us, perversely the president of council, is determined for the killing to continue, and is helping carry it out.” Russia vetoes UN resolution to stop bombing of Aleppo 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z “Climate change is perversely designed to be hard to solve politically,” Obama said. President Obama Urges Swift Action on Climate Change 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Is Jan perversely testing Bess, as some critics have suggested, or liberating her from a bad situation? Breaking the Waves: Lars von Trier's 'true love story' becomes an opera 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z She believes that, perversely, her background worked to her advantage. Julissa Arce: undocumented at Goldman Sachs and breaking a stereotype 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And while much went wrong in the final three quarters for the Trojans, they still emerged with a perversely positive outlook on their progress toward the Pac-12 season. USC shakes off Alabama debacle, focuses on Utah State 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Even more perversely, they looked to the one state institution capable of carrying that out: the Egyptian military. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z “It was kind of perversely flattering,” she told a crowd of more than 3,000 at a rally in Tampa on Friday evening. Day After R.N.C. Ends, Hillary Clinton Presents Herself as the Anti-Trump 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Because teachers unions insist that financial appropriations are the all-important determinants of schools’ successes, they are perversely reluctant to acknowledge the importance of quality teachers. The injustice of California’s teacher tenure 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z But mostly, there's a smug contentment to this story that perversely isn't very satisfying. Steven Spielberg’s The BFG is missing Roald Dahl's usual delirious malice 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z “This law perversely grants businesses that operate online the power to shut down investigations of their practices.” ACLU sues over ‘unconstitutionally overbroad’ anti-hacking law 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In aggregate, the relentless press of these stories is as exhausting as it is perversely mesmerizing, like some matriarchal religion’s Book of Job. A portrait of living, working and dating while female: It’s not pretty 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It might even be perversely disappointing if he hadn’t. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z One of the hurdles that European equities faced at the start of the year was, perversely, their popularity: they were a top pick for many investors. European Equities: Don’t Write Them Off Just Yet 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But ultimately, it is the universe around Mr. Weiner that seems perversely unhinged; a citizenry of judges and high priests who seem to have processed his transgressions personally. Anthony Weiner, a Man Who Likes Screens 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z His physical detachment from the music was perversely mesmerizing, especially whenever he sulked across the stage at a pace unrelated to the tempo of the music, which was pretty much during the entire show. Does anyone resent Justin Bieber’s fame more than Justin Bieber? 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Whatever the outcome on Friday, it will underline that the financial system is still perversely addicted to credit ratings. Portugal and the Awkward Power of Credit Ratings 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Though their willingness to humiliate themselves by actually doing so is, perversely, a sign of her strength. Let’s Make a Deal 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Or, as Northwestern and some other academic medical centers argue, are these hospitals being perversely penalized because they are so aggressive in screening patients for problems? How Medicare Penalizes Hospitals for Being Too Careful 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But perversely, the number of Syrian refugees that Europe accepts under the deal is tied to the number who irregularly cross and are then sent back to Turkey. Europe is a moral wasteland: Countless refugees continue to die while the West turns a blind eye 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In the end, perversely, it was Sam’s kindness that triggered the necessary antibodies. Facing my fear: sleeping, alone, in my mother's house just after she died | Emma Brockes 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z These days, all evidence seems to suggest that there never was anything wrong with me, that, contrary to my near-lifelong and perversely cherished view that I'm worthless, I'm actually OK. Viewpoint: How we learn to believe in ourselves - BBC News 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The popularity of distilled agave has, perversely, always been a problem for the makers of mezcal. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Hunting people on the streets of Manhattan is so perversely playful that the game's bleakest concept is its best. The Division is a cathartic comedy about terrorism in NYC 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This leads her, perversely, to avoid many social occasions for fear of wearing herself out from attentiveness - the price of such niceness can be very high. A Point of View: When does borrowing from other cultures become 'appropriation'? - BBC News 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z This in turn may lead, perversely, to bills increasing not decreasing in the long run. Renewable energy investors spooked by subsidy cuts - BBC News 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z I now find the amalgamation of opera house refinement and mountain goat ability perversely appealing. Video Review: Restoring Diesel’s Good Name With a New Range Rover 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Security officials keep the public focus on the limits of surveillance rather than on its excesses; at the very same time, the frequent exposure of new surveillance capacities perversely functions to normalize those excesses. The NYPD’s “Big Brother” problem is getting even worse 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z But the Radio Times described it as "perversely clever", saying it "works like a charm", and Geoffrey Macnab in the Independent gave it four stars, saying it was "energetic and occasionally inspired". Lily James 'wants to be an action hero' after zombie role - BBC News 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z And this month, trials are going ahead to make sure mice, which require a higher dose of the poison to be killed, won’t perversely benefit from their ratty neighbours dying in higher numbers. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton joked that being targeted by Republicans was “perversely flattering.” What to Look for in a Republican Debate Without Donald Trump 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z She also invoked their fixation with attacking her, calling it “perversely flattering but … also instructive.” Donald Trump announces event to rival Republican debate – campaign live 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Only 50 minutes long — and perversely easier to find online right now than the more recent documentary — "Cracked Actor" is probably the best single Bowie film. Exploring David Bowie's catalog 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z It was a perversely fitting end to a year of law-enforcement controversies. The Tamir Rice case is a perversely fitting end to a year of police controversies 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z They are perversely joyful and Lemmy has always insisted that his music is about celebration. Lemmy interviewed in 2004: 'People don’t know how to be outrageous any more' 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Well-intentioned people often act in rigid ways that maximize their self-esteem while perversely making it harder for the country to govern itself. How Trump does it 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z She also invoked their fixation with attacking her, calling it “perversely flattering but … also instructive.” Donald Trump announces event to rival Republican debate – campaign live 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Until Dawn,” a slasher thriller that twists all the familiar gimmicks into something perversely original. ‘Witcher 3,’ ‘Fallout 4’ lead AP’s top 10 games of 2015 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z This thriller initially looks like dozens of slasher movies, but it twists all the familiar tropes into something perversely original. 'The Witcher 3,' 'Fallout 4' lead AP's top 10 games of 2015 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Many of the nearly 200 countries that took the pledge in Paris perversely encourage the use of the fossil fuels that are changing the Earth’s atmosphere. Cut global emissions by cutting fossil-fuel subsidies 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Although some of its quirks work against defendants, others act perversely in their favour. Weird justice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But the top 10 percent rule promotes diversity, perversely, only because so many Texas high schools are not diverse. Why the Supreme Court should uphold affirmative action — again 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says he opposes the bill because "terrorist activity" isn't defined and companies may perversely avoid looking for content to avoid breaking the law if they fail to report something. Proposed law would have social media companies report 'terrorist activity' to law enforcement 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Eventually an unexpected plot development materializes, adding a satisfying element of surprise and perversely karmic payback. Movie review: So-so ‘Criminal Activities’ is redeemed by sharp twist 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z ‘It’s increasingly apparent that oil and gas stocks might be able to benefit, perversely, from the low oil price.’ Investor Shift: Hate the Oil, Love the Big Oil Company 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Every generation of Americans is perversely nostalgic about its formative years. Baby boomer nostalgia is already oppressive. It’s about to get so much worse. 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Africa’s second disadvantage is, perversely, its bounty of natural riches. More a marathon than a sprint 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z My first instinct at the time was perversely self-congratulatory in nature. Censorship is returning to Indonesia in the name of the 1965 purges | Laksmi Pamuntjak 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z He added: "There's something perversely impressive about the fact that, after three trailers and a behind-the-scenes featurette, director JJ Abrams has still let almost nothing slip about what actually happens in his movie." Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Frenzied social media reaction to trailer - BBC News 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “It’s increasingly apparent that oil and gas stocks might be able to benefit, perversely, from the low oil price,” said Mr. Sym. Investor Shift: Hate the Oil, Love the Big Oil Company 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The American version of “The Killing” frustrated viewers a few seasons ago by seemingly solving the show’s season-long mystery and then, perversely, undoing it and spending another season solving the murder all over again. New Twists for the TV Plot, as Viewer Habits Change 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Roose, the author, says he was told of a game junior bankers play called “Misery Poker,” in which they sit around and perversely brag about their workload. Tragedies Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z This is one of the perversely innovative forms of torture allegedly being practised by Burundi’s secret service in the defence of a besieged regime. Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Not confident of winning re-election on merit in October, he’s pushed through a series of legal changes spearheaded by the perversely named Fair Elections Act. Canada's prime minister wants to make it harder for people to vote against him | Caroline Konrad 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z And while greater interconnectedness reduces countries’ vulnerability to local production shocks, it may also perversely increase vulnerability to large shocks in distant so-called "breadbasket" regions. Severe 'food shocks' more likely due to extreme weather, experts warn 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z As in the perversely calm months between the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the Blitzkrieg into the Low Countries the following spring, nothing much seems to be happening. The U.S.-Russia “phony war”: How Washington warmongers could bring us from stalemate to catastrophe 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z The FCC’s ventures may perversely supplant long-established FTC review, at least with respect to broadband providers’ practices. The Consequences of a Washington Internet Power Grab 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Yet China is behaving as if they do—and so, perversely, is America. The 70-year itch 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It alleges breaches of local regulations, something the environmental group denies, labeling the charges “perversely framed and maliciously designed” and pointing its finger at the national government led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Greenpeace India Threatened With Closure 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z This has made them protective of their privacy and, perhaps perversely, fatalistic about the media’s hostility. How Politico became a GOP stooge: Republicans want to destroy Hillary Clinton—and the media is helping them out 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Defeat perversely encouraged Frank; he liked what he couldn’t do. The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z U.S. fear of nuclear war led, perversely, to its arms race with the U.S.S.R., and to the catastrophic U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Are We Too Afraid of Nuclear Weapons? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z That’s because the tax credits are calculated so perversely that people who receive them actually get punished for working more hours. King v. Burwell: Fix Obamacare's Job Killing Tax Credits 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z "The immigration rules will cause chaos for the NHS and other care services. At a time when demand is increasing, the UK is perversely making it harder to employ staff from overseas." Migrant salary rules may cost NHS nurse jobs, union warns - BBC News 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The women’s World Cup, in particular, is uncorrupted by huge sums of cash and perversely high expectations. Fifa crisis: FAI were paid after Thierry Henry handball, says John Delaney – live 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The layout was almost perversely illogical: 724,000 square metres of floor space distributed among four distinct high-rises and a warren of multi-level passages that could have been designed by Magritte. Roppongi Hills: controversial blueprint for Tokyo's new breed of high-rise – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 38 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In practice, for a young person in a city like Baltimore, this compromise means the goal of equality of opportunity is moving further away, thanks, perversely enough, to bipartisanship. Congress' Bipartisan NCLB Bill Would Make Education Inequality Worse 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In a country plagued by bureaucratic delays, a rise in the divorce rate may perversely be encouraging. Arrivederci, darling 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Because of longstanding copyright laws, “the digital age could perversely become an era with less accessibility, not more, than the analog age.” When Google is your librarian and Starbucks your WiFi, do we still need public libraries? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z There’s something perversely wrong with a society that creates $30 trillion in new wealth while putting six million more children on food stamps. The mainstream media rarely publishes facts like this. 4 numbers that prove America’s economic model is broken 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Esther George perversely voted against every Federal Reserve effort to revive the economy. The Fed Knew the Economy Was a Disaster in 2009. Here’s What They Talked About Instead. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z But perversely, even that hopeful scenario would require yet another act of personal rule. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The concussion protocol may even have the indirect, and perhaps unresolvable, effect of perversely incentivizing the kinds of plays that cause concussions. Julian Edelman and The Super Bowl's Concussion Crisis 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Perhaps because I subconsciously want to catalyze the rise of the corpo-nations, I perversely want to see how far the company could go with HoloLens tech. How Microsoft's HoloLens could improve Disneyland and six other crazy ideas 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z As many businesses use such comms systems, this has perversely opened up more corporate data to criminals and intelligence agents from countries seeking to establish digital espionage operations inside organisations across industries. No Country For Any Business: Imagining Britain Without Encryption 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z After being attacked every day of every week for almost six months, I'm perversely grateful for the opportunity to disappear. Why I deleted Twitter off my phone, reinstalled it, and deleted it again 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Not only are black children cast as adults but, just as perversely, black adults are stuck in a limbo of childhood, viewed as irresponsible, uncivil, criminal, innately inferior. In America, black children don’t get to be children These classes pay the largest % of their income to taxes yet perversely receive the least benefits and support from said government for these taxes, no matter what party is in power. The Great Wage Slowdown, Looming Over Politics 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z He wrote, “A scheme that we assumed would ‘provide capital defendants with more, rather than less, judicial protection’ has perversely developed into a procedure” in which a “defendant’s life is twice put in jeopardy.” In Alabama, Judges Play God 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In some respects, almost more free, bizarrely and perversely, to think abstractly because he's free. 'The Theory of Everything' director on filming a movie with Stephen Hawking on set 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Whirlpool’s decertification motions perversely provide plaintiffs’ lawyers with arguments to resist res judicata. After "Smelly Washer" Trial Win, Challenges Await Whirlpool In Related Cases 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most important lesson from Maidan for the CPC is that violence perversely increases the number and intensity of demonstrators. Unlike Ukraine, The Hong Kong Protests Will Almost Certainly Fail 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Imagine: one of the world’s most perversely offbeat movie directors persuades ABC to let him try a prime-time series. One Big Difference Between the Original Twin Peaks and the Reboot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet all of these problems are caused or aggravated by drug prohibition, which perversely encourages people to experiment on themselves with mystery chemicals. The Mystery Of Cloud 9: How Drug Laws Make Drugs More Dangerous 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z First, automation perversely led some patients to receive inflated medical bills. Why It's Too Easy To Dismiss Technology Critics: Or, The Fallacies Leading A Reviewer To Call Nicholas Carr Paranoid 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z It’s a description that once it is in mind it’s difficult to shift, though the scent of Complex is perversely hypnotic. The Digitising of Humanity is About to Take Another Huge Step Forward: Smell Hence, perversely, the perceived “need” for so many to see the video. The NFL has made you 'need' to watch Ray Rice beat his wife. That's how the cover-up works 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z That national leaders appointed her is, perversely, a sign of how jealously they intend to guard their foreign-policy prerogatives. Dance of the powers 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But all this obfuscation and secrecy, perversely, also drives home what has prompted Hermés’ stock to shoot up 175% over the past five years. Inside Hermés: Luxury Secret Empire 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Valhalla, his narrowest major victory yet, was perversely the most impressive of all. Golden boy McIlroy 'owns his era' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Today, however, there are investors who, perversely, desire some of their stock holdings to drop in value or underperform their peers. The Problem of 'Underweight' Shareholders 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “That is a situation that the coyotes are very perversely taking very much an opportunity to exploit,” Mr. Hernandez, speaking through an interpreter, told reporters. Presidents of Honduras, Guatemala blame U.S. for border children crisis 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z There is something perversely honest in this, when so much “meritocratic” achievement is just the opposite. This Week in Fiction: Greg Jackson 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Finally, and perhaps most perversely, some of the most predictive variables are circular. A 25-question Twitter Quiz to Predict Retweets 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z "Even more perversely," he said, "you have paid to be come upon." Mike Daisey is feeling himself 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Creativity is a perversely difficult thing to study,” he said. This Is Your Brain on Writing 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Most of the girls, though not all, had their heads covered – at Park View, with bright white headscarves, which gave them the appearance, perversely, of Christian nuns. Are British Muslim Schools Teaching Hatred? Their drawbacks are huge: they distort the economy, fuel corruption, bust budgets and, perversely, benefit the rich, as big users of energy, far more than the poor. Price squeeze 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z But it works: perversely, after all the economic and social consequences of austerity, the Cameron-Osborne duo remain decisively ahead on economic credibility. Labour needs a politics of hope to counter Ukip's politics of despair 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z True, they express their frustrations perversely and project them onto the wrong people, but that doesn’t change the fact that they feel utterly disenfranchised by their country and betrayed by its economic system. Benghazi nuts, anti-vaxxers, birthers: Do they really buy their own nonsense? 2014-05-13T17:45:00Z The problem is that the very notion, if accurate, of denying Seahawks home games because they’ll win them too handily is, perversely, the ultimate sign of respect. Seahawks’ prime-time schedule: Much ado about little 2014-04-26T23:06:45Z But perversely, the statistics are actually a cause for optimism. The truth behind the rise in sex crimes 2014-04-24T15:48:53Z But clever ideas early on go rogue, or go missing, in the gallop toward an action-film climax that then, perversely, doesn’t materialize. REVIEW: Transcendence Has Only Artificial Intelligence 2014-04-16T19:00:26Z That international disparity is remarkable, but it’s perversely good news for conservationists: It’s not unimaginable that California residents could one day use half as much water as they do today. How to survive a future without water 2014-03-01T23:00:00Z What must be avoided is any action that, while designed to punish the use of chemical weapons, perversely ends up releasing dangerous materials into the environment. Analysis: U.S. strike would aim to punish Assad, not turn tide of war 2013-08-27T12:54:34Z It has not had the kind of crisis-and-recovery soap opera that might have put him in headlines and, perversely, benefited his cause. Omission of Bengals’ Riley From Hall of Fame a Striking Oversight 2013-08-03T15:46:05Z In fact, though, another kind of bad news, which perversely tends to be good news for China’s leaders, has also been abundant this year. Why Bad News Elsewhere Is Good News for China 2013-07-11T06:50:28Z The recent Apple bond issuance was a great example of how the U.S. tax code perversely rewards debt. Republicans Seem to Be Out of Economic Ideas — Here Are Two Suggestions 2013-05-20T09:45:14Z As George Stalk, Jr. and Rob Lachenauer of the Boston Consulting Group explain in their perversely enlightening book, Hardball, these firms are “willing to hurt their rivals”. Leadership In The Three-Speed Economy 2013-05-01T15:58:11Z Yet perversely, floating in an electronic sea has the deeper effect of depriving them of the habit of being alone, developing their own thoughts. I set my teenage daughter a computer curfew 2013-04-27T08:01:25Z Somewhat perversely, the dismal economic news this week prompted a rally in stocks and bonds, as investors bet that the unexpectedly bad business surveys would prod the central bank to lower interest rates. Southern Europe’s Recession Threatens to Spread North 2013-04-26T01:02:42Z In a country where the romance of the FA Cup is mourned at regular intervals, the prevailing attitude to this competition is perversely out of sync. Five reasons to celebrate the Europa League 2013-04-04T09:48:26Z Julian Schieber's sending off after 30 minutes made Dortmund play even better, perversely. Bayern wreck relations with Dortmund over Robert Lewandowski shenanigans 2013-02-18T17:31:00Z In negotiating an initial deal, both sides are perversely incented to starve the business. A Better Way To Do a Deal 2013-02-12T14:16:20Z More forgiving souls will continue to argue that since so many riders were cheating, the playing field in Armstrong's era was more or less level and perversely fair. Column: Lance Armstrong, exceptional? Phooey! 2013-01-15T22:59:09Z And although it was originally intended to help farmers, some economists and lawmakers in agricultural areas say it has perversely contributed to suburban sprawl and the spiraling cost of farmland. Companies Exploit Tax Break for Asset Exchanges, Trial Evidence Shows 2013-01-07T03:21:33Z So, perversely as Apple appreciates, institutions must trim their positions even if they believe it still remains attractive. Apple Fatigue 2012-12-30T01:45:00Z So perhaps last weekend's defeat at the hands of United might perversely do them a favour. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2012-12-14T09:00:00Z Sehwag confirmed the sluggishness of the pitch and perversely extolled the virtues of discretion on such a surface. England bowler Graeme Swann 'very proud' to pass Jim Laker's record 2012-11-15T15:09:56Z He wrote: "Groups advocating keeping tobacco tax low perversely seek to 'help' poor smokers by keeping tobacco affordable, which encourages use." Should you need a licence to smoke? 2012-11-14T02:15:39Z Snooker: a sport with mineral water in its veins, gurgling, drowning, choking in the stuff, while perversely the players still seem constantly thirsty, jet-lagged , trapped inside a world that no longer fits. Ronnie O'Sullivan, snooker's last James Bond, will surely be back 2012-11-09T19:30:55Z His twin failures on the tour to date had, perversely, told little beyond that even the best players can be dismissed before they have adjusted to the conditions at the crease. Mike Selvey on Nick Compton 2012-11-06T14:47:01Z Though industrial decline can have a perversely romantic appeal, we weren’t especially interested in rehashing the sad state of old factories. Essay: Outside the Amtrak Window, a Picture of the U.S. Economy 2012-11-05T16:37:11Z Several participants voiced concern that the Israeli assault would, perversely, undermine Washington’s ability to keep Iran from getting the bomb. 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