| 单词 | perversity |
| 例句 | “Well, it’s so expensive, but it’s so ugly too, isn’t it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The trademark Adams style might be described as “enlightened perversity,” which actually sought out occasions to display, often in conspicuous fashion, his capacity for self-sacrifice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Most annoyingly, her objections were not mere perversity: at this stage the embarrassing fact came out that my recollection of the water content of Rosy’s DNA samples could not be right. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Afrikaners were dumbfounded; to them the award was another example of the perversity of Western liberals and their bias against white South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems like a return to the days of the priests of Baal, so vulgar and disgusting do these perversities appear.’” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z His reputation then fell victim to two nearly calamitous setbacks, one beyond his control and the other the product of his personal flair for perversity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I had heard the whole range of perversities until I later became a steerer taking white men to what they wanted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the thought of these intimacies in particular, which she imagined as painful acts of perversity, that filled her with dread and made her break out in a sweat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Devotion to dogma and sheer perversity erodes their fellowship as day turns into night — after which “Clash” turns into a full-fledged horror movie, albeit one without the fake comfort of a supernatural or science-fiction pretext. Review: A Police Truck in Egypt Brimming With Anger and Pain in ‘Clash’ 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z “What people call perverse and outside the margins, it has nothing to do with perversity,” Ms. Huppert said. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The film, tipping its hat to Nathanael West’s “The Day of the Locust” and Mr. Wagner’s own novels, imagines Los Angeles as an inferno of narcissism, greed and sexual perversity. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He doesn’t hide wires or transformers; as with the flesh-colored latex he smeared with tacky flocking early in his career, he exults in what he calls the “perversity” of his materials. | The Sensual, Suggestive Appeal of Keith Sonnier’s Neon Sculptures 2014-01-27T22:54:42Z Like most CBS procedurals, this one is mainly interested in seeing how much perversity and fear it can serve up while maintaining the pretense of clinical distance. Meet the worst new TV show of 2011: "Suspect Behavior" 2011-02-16T15:01:00Z In his show notes Mr. Vaccarello said: “For Saint Laurent, elegance is mandatory but it also goes with perversity; one without the other would only be plain bourgeoisie or vulgarity.” Harvey Weinstein Casts a Shadow on Dior and Saint Laurent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Tom Zé is alive to paradox and perversity; he celebrates it, shoving inapposite ideas together, appreciating the dirtiness of life. Music Review: Watch Out for Those Doors, and the Acoustics 2011-07-20T22:10:04Z His work, he believes, reflects his ambivalent attitude towards the establishment, acknowledging the perversity that, sometimes, a person can find something both abhorrent and deeply attractive. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z On a societal level, the desire to exercise choice may create collective perversity. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z But they were fighting against a production of such perversity, directed, designed and lit by Giuseppe Frigeni, with most of the dialogue cut and the action reduced to posturing. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The international festival officially opened with Delius's A Mass of Life – a heady, Dionysian piece that gets under your skin despite its perversities. A Mass of Life – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-12T16:00:01Z His other series include “1784,” fantasies of a past that never was and whose images ooze fairy-tale perversity, and “Here to Stay,” traditional photography with subjects like factories and ruins. C?dric Delsaux?s Photographs of ?Star Wars? on Earth 2011-12-11T00:53:02Z This wasn’t just technical excellence coming through: it was nerves and doubt and bragging and a little perversity. Music Review | Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck: Yes, Two Guitar Idols Are Better Than One 2010-02-19T23:33:00Z Putting questions about your romantic life aside, isn’t it typical of the perversity of human nature that you should be fixating on your loss rather then celebrating the friendship you’ve enjoyed? I’m 26, a virgin and attracted to a woman twice my age 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z That was one thing, but it is also a bit of a perversity, because it is trying to put viewers in the shoes of parents. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z And yet there might be something respectable about perversity done right. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Disembowelment and death provided an erotic climax of unspeakable perversity. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And if such rewards as the unmasking of the killer or the solution to the riddle are absent, it isn't because of perversity but because uncertainty and error are central to the stories' purpose. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z Years of practice had accustomed him to my barely understandable speech, as well as the perversity of my thoughts. Don Juan in a wheelchair 2013-02-02T01:00:00Z His excellent 4AD debut, Before Today, cleans up some of the rough edges, but there's still a perversity resistant to any marketing polish. Before Today you may have considered Ariel Pink quite kitsch 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z So while we get multiple passing references to the prison-industrial complex being the present-day instantiation of Morris’s perversity, these then lie inert. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Such “extreme reading” requires special personal traits: grit, stamina, a penchant for self-improvement, and a dash of perversity. Christine Smallwood: Phyllis Rose’s “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES” 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Together, the two lawyers plough into a field of perversity. Flowers from the muck 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z It signals a history of perversity in art, a perennial fascination with barbarity and horror that the Chapmans are happy to perpetuate. Jake or Dinos Chapman - review 2011-07-14T15:05:56Z The book begins with its constant theme — the Mississippi’s lawless ways, its mobility and perversity — and goes on to its “discovery” by Europeans, paying caustic attention to the invaders’ appetite for other people’s land. Review | Audiobooks for your summer travels 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z In an article written in 1950, the critic and curator David Sylvester questioned the perversity of feeling in Freud's latest portrayals. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z As for Jeff, he has sublimated everything into his movies, "learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art." Rafael Ygelesias' 'Wisdom of Perversity' works its way under the skin 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The bonds of affection that hold families and societies together are always fragile and embattled, always threatened by natural circumstances and the perversity of human will. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z “You may find yourself in an argument about just what kind of movie you saw,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times about Paul Verhoeven’s “masterpiece of suave perversity.” What’s on TV Monday: Isabelle Huppert in ‘Elle,’ and ‘A Cat in Paris’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z But just in time for Halloween here’s the Criterion Blu-ray edition that fans have been praying for, and I’m happy to report that the film has lost none of its powerful whiff of perversity. DVD: New on Blu-ray: Erle C. Kenton?s ?Island of Lost Souls? 2011-10-22T02:53:02Z But both elegance and perversity get redefined as eras evolve. Harvey Weinstein Casts a Shadow on Dior and Saint Laurent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The perversity comes in my reaching for it at all. Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true revolution 2012-08-17T21:00:01Z In the fourth and final section of “Girl in Glass,” she elaborates, noting the perversity of singling out preemies for their high care costs. Review: In ‘Girl in Glass,’ Deanna Fei Shares Her Baby’s Struggles 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Even in a career characterized by its single-minded devotion to alienating the audience, "Trash Humpers" stands out for its sheer perversity. The most hated man in art-house cinema 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z Rather than highlighting the perversity of slavery, his sententious prose strains to upstage it. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s easy to forgive James for keeping to a pace as ruminative and slow as the age he lived in; with Banville, it feels willful to the point of perversity. Whatever Happened to Isabel Archer? ‘Mrs. Osmond’ Picks Up Where Henry James Left Off 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z He’s into soft and loud, earnest craft and a bit of perversity, new sounds and old sounds. Music Review: Lyricism With a Dash of Soft Rock 2011-08-10T22:15:29Z The show begins with the expected milking of classic Addams perversity, in which morbidity is automatically substituted for cheerfulness. | 'The Addams Family': Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth on Broadway 2010-04-09T02:29:00Z Our foolishness and perversity, which may be invisible to our contemporaries, will surely stand naked in the full light of later scrutiny. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z The perversity comes from Mallon staying so tightly confined to the Nixon administration's point of view. 'Watergate': Thomas Mallon's novel of Nixon's downfall 2012-02-22T22:01:06Z His latest film promises to continue his study of familial perversity with the story of a doctor who takes a fatherless teenager under his wing and unwittingly introduces upheaval to his family. What’s Playing at Cannes 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Knowing of the wonderful perversity of "Nicole" helps put the many contradictions of Newman's Sunday recital in perspective. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “In other words, it’s an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent wit.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ and ‘The Lodge’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “Beloved” is at once whimsical and heartfelt, alive to the absurdity and perversity of amorous behavior and also to the gravity and intensity of human emotions. Movie Review: Catherine Deneuve in ‘Beloved’ 2012-08-17T15:23:01Z It's a triumph of eccentricity over the perversity of normal. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z She's inspired by the torments of convention and the perversity of social expectation. Paula Rego: my hero 2012-08-24T21:45:09Z Decades earlier, the Velvet Underground reveled in the similarly alienating perversity of the track that closed their second album, 1968's White Light/White Heat. Pop's long players: sometimes extra length makes all the difference 2012-05-17T08:46:17Z There is, he admits, a streak of perversity in his character that likes to toy with notions of highbrow and lowbrow. Matilda: Thank heaven for little girls 2010-12-27T22:00:00Z Now Ms. Molloy enters the ring, exploring rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating acuity. Review: ‘Crackskull Row,’ an Irish Gothic With Masher, Basher and Rasher 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Production concepts read about in advance have given me the willies by virtue of their seeming perversity, only to bowl me over, when realized on stage, with their much more profound rightness. Young Artists' 'Don Giovanni': Enjoyable music, despite distractions 2011-04-02T16:55:04Z For Milo Rau, making his American stage directing debut, the perversity is the point. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Also, perversity is not as cool as people think it is. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z There’s a spot for perversity and transgression that certain moviegoers have, and Mr. De Palma knew how to hit it. All That Sex and Blood, Mr. De Palma! 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Yet he was at least ten years ahead of the great fashion for dystopias in highbrow circles, and anyhow hadn’t judged how his book’s slightness, and its vein of real perversity, might play against it. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Confident perversity does not compensate for a nagging lack of originality. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z Such ambition is uncommon in cartoons about magical snack food, and it should probably be commended for sheer perversity. ‘Animal Crackers’ Review: Of Hamsters and Men 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The beginner demonstrates the unnaturalness of it all, the perversity of the enterprise. Connections: Triathlon Training With Chopin in Mind 2010-07-15T22:35:00Z In Mr. Shaw’s gleefully demonic art, form follows polymorphous perversity. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z She writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of circumstance and identity, not to mention the perversity of being buried alive, alone, inside a body. Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In Nurenberg’s hands, Sigmund Freud’s notion of polymorphous perversity is not a problem to be solved but a talent to be cultivated. Go ahead, touch the art. That's the point of 'Twiddle, Poke, Hold' 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z But even in his later works, wrote the curator and critic Terence Maloon, the “grotesquerie is sometimes redoubled and the perversity of his handling can be astounding.” Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s a near-neighbor, therefore, to perversity, a topic long central to theology and philosophy. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Or even followable; despite its generous running time and exhausting exposition, in which characters tell each other things they would already know, the play is mysterious to the point of perversity. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The pleasures of Ms. Breillat’s work are its commitment and seriousness and its raw, sometimes very funny perversity: she’s lets everything hang out, without apologies. | 'The Sleeping Beauty': No Sleep for a Beauty Who Seeks Adventure 2011-07-07T22:47:11Z Characters slip into criminal perversity unwittingly, almost by accident. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z In a spirit of perversity, I asked Alexa to play a playlist called Just Breathe, from Amazon Prime, which I knew would be nothing but trouble. Yelling at Amazon’s Alexa 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z While the film is too long, I am still in thrall to its loops and perversities, drawn inexorably into its coils. My favourite Hitchcock: Vertigo 2012-08-10T14:28:09Z Mr. Kelley’s film projects what might have lurked in the repressed unconscious of that innocent image: a subterranean theater of lust and perversity, which he set within and around the “Exploded Fortress.” Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z You smell a kind of bad faith, a refusal to conform born of pure perversity — but it’s liberating. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The academy is known for its independent-mindedness and for its at times almost willful perversity in picking winners. Bob Dylan Says He’ll Skip Nobel Ceremony (He’s Busy) 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Even as it deals with sexual perversity and severe mental illness, "A Dangerous Method" is a restrained and elegant costume drama driven by characters, language and ideas, not violence or outré imagery. Knightley and Fassbender steam up "Dangerous Method" 2011-09-09T22:10:00Z “Bridge Over Mud” resists inviting the audience in and refuses — with a kind of perversity that is actually sort of admirable — to become interesting. Identity Crisis: Theater Productions That Refuse to Be Theater 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z I hadn’t realised people were so keen to see Will Self get a drubbing until the reviews came out for his memoir – titled with characteristic perversity, Will, as opposed to the more obviously memoir-ish Self. The critical drubbing for Will Self’s book shows there’s a subtle art to memoir | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z The sheer perversity of this move will be hard for many readers to swallow. The Story of the Girl Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned by the Nazis 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z But Strindberg, who held to the courage of his perversity, tweaked that formula like no other dramatist before him in his naturalistic plays from the late 1880s. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z The aura of violence and perversity that surrounded the films suited an enfant terrible who enjoyed notoriety. 2010-02-12T18:53:00Z An intense interest in the disquieting operations of arbitrary, rule-based systems makes a certain sense for an African American artist raised into the perversity of the Jim Crow South. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z As the sun goes down, the perversity of some of Sunday's scheduling starts to become clear. Reading festival 2012: the smell of Sunday 2012-08-27T15:03:44Z “The Last Trial” is a novel about the complex process of coming to judgment, bringing order and partial clarity to the daily parade of human perversity. Review | Scott Turow is a master of the legal thriller. ‘The Last Trial’ proves he’s still at the top of his game. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s a bit unsettling to realize how much our ideas about manliness owe to an ancient theory holding that all men, no matter how noble, will eventually reveal their perversities. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It wears its perversity proudly, or at least with a comfortable and unassuming sense of style, like a cool T-shirt or a nice pair of jeans. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z There’s some deliberate perversity there, and some trust in the flexibility, forgiveness and loyalty of its audience. Review: Ava Luna, Welcoming but Weird in ‘Infinite House’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z At one point, Dr. Bruckner, the hypnotist-psychiatrist has this to say: “What a masterpiece of perversity a woman is. … Oh, God! Why did you not make women first, when you were fresh?” I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The overall effect is like that of a giant Surrealistic collage, a crazy quilt of superstition, paranoia, perversity and idiocy. Review: Tony Oursler’s Grand Illusions, Science Left at the Door 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In This Game of Thrones, Ladies Play Hardball An endless, multisided battle for a throne in a premodern land, but without much actual battling or perversity. Television Review: ‘The White Queen’ Has Its Premiere on Starz 2013-08-09T21:49:23Z Geisel became editor of the campus humor magazine, the Jack-O-Lantern, which he said was written “only for the extreme left wing of college student, for the man of social perversity.” Seussapalooza! The Magical Creations of the Man Behind The Lorax 2012-03-02T16:12:29Z Part of the appeal of watching races is that we see that perversity overcome. Connections: Triathlon Training With Chopin in Mind 2010-07-15T22:35:00Z Newton attributes the switch to “irony, perversity, projection and a desire to shield the innocent.” From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The perversity of their relationship, which fuels their attraction, only grows more intricate and intense as the characters grow up. Theater Review: ‘Shun-kin,’ Japanese Intrigue, at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T21:58:34Z The pairing reinvigorated the weirdness and perversity of a piece from the 19th century so familiar as to be in danger of losing its edge. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z With formal perfect pitch, comedic élan and fearless indiscretion he creates disjunctive cartoon allegories of surrealistic perversity. Art In Review: STEVE GIANAKOS: ?New Paintings? 2012-02-09T22:52:01Z The artistic research and its elegant application went back to the original idea of a male-female crossover in an era when it suggested daring perversity. Fashion Review: At Gucci, Frida Giannini Goes from Sexy to Sensual 2012-02-22T18:11:18Z In other words, it’s an Almodóvar movie with all the attendant gifts that implies: lapidary technique, calculated perversity, intelligent wit. | 'The Skin I Live In': ?The Skin I Live In,? Directed by Pedro Almod?var ? Review 2011-10-13T17:05:56Z To me it was just about the perversity of it all. Christopher Meloni on His 'More Wolf Than Human' Slave Catcher in 'Underground' 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z But it’s hard to hold a grudge in the face of L’Heureux’s charming perversity. An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The perversity of another standout film, “The Lobster”, took a more delightful form. Beachcombing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Zegna spoke about the novel-seeming idea that men these days actually enjoy submitting to the perversities of shopping for clothing and fretting about their appearance. Fashion Review: Review of Men?s Fashion From Milan 2010-06-23T21:42:00Z It is a perversity of art that, as art, what we see is likely to be apprehended in purely, or primarily, aesthetic terms. Poisoned Landscapes 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z I said the words, then started to laugh wildly at the perversity of having the discussion in that place. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z With Sherman, there is no real sense of perversity. Why I'm seduced by Cindy Sherman's Sex Pictures 2012-11-26T12:02:00Z The deeper perversity rides on his suggestion that discussing stranger-groping, in stark language, is a thing that men do when they’re left alone in gyms, private clubs, or, apparently, a bus. Trump’s Locker Room Is His Safe Space 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z His attempts to be friendly to her are darkly comic, like the gruesome mobster deaths described in on-screen text, until you realize the perversity of his persistence. The Restrained Genius of a Joe Pesci Performance 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The New York Philharmonic’s concerts this week, conducted by Edward Gardner in his debut with the orchestra, project a delightful strain of perversity. Review: Odd, Delightful Juxtapositions at the Philharmonic 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It also encompassed all the codes of the designer: diversity, perversity and the hair-raising sculptures that first inspired Mr. Gaultier in the African hair salons of France 30 years ago. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-27T18:38:23Z So now, as trapped or isolated people often do, Magritte sought temporary asylum in perversity. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Those easy-breezy selections were, of course, providing a jolt of perversity before an audience filled with aggressive haircuts and black leather jackets. Faith No More with new 'Sol Invictus' album: 'We can do anything we want' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z In this new novel, Atwood is far more focused on creating a brisk thriller than she is on exploring the perversity of systemic repression. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z I think in the end, I just want to feel good about feeling good — to dislodge disgrace, guilt and addictive perversity from the part of my brain that controls arousal. Did porn warp me forever? 2013-01-13T02:00:00Z The perversity begins with the fact that “Notes on an Appearance” primarily concerns a disappearance. Review: In ‘Notes on an Appearance,’ the Hipster Vanishes 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Shaw's obsessive project might be seasoned by technical perversity and back-street humour, but when his images work they are wonderful. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z The other piece of perversity is that the character who speaks the most is never seen in the play. A play with practically no talking? In Bess Wohl's 'Small Mouth Sounds,' silence is sweet 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In her 2011 book “The Art of Cruelty,” Maggie Nelson writes about cultural products that “seem designed to analyze themselves, and to make a spectacle of their essentially consumable perversity.” “13 Reasons Why” Makes a Smarmy Spectacle of Suicide 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z “The Monster’s source was not general perversity of mind in the population that suffered,” she writes. Jill Leovy’s ‘Ghettoside,’ a South Los Angeles Murder Case 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Or Nabokov, who understood the obsessional nature of love and played so lovingly with perversity? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z But I had hopes that Mr. Izzard, a brilliant stand-up portraitist of human perversity, might give a jolt of shock therapy to an often glib and mechanical play. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z We might defend his feelings for Lolita, but not his perversity.” Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z There was an occasional flash of perversity: a suit in a pattern of poppies was a reminder of the origins of heroin. Fashion Review: Men’s Wear Displays Some Bold Plumage 2013-06-19T15:00:41Z They are familiar tales and yet utterly distinctive from one another, with startling details that suggest the perversity of flailing souls who misread their own intentions. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Even Rousseau, in his “Confessions,” revealed that our inner selves were cauldrons of emotion, perversity and paranoia. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The most astonishing aspect of the Oher story is that virtually no one who read the book, or saw the movie, chose to recognize this perversity. The back-and-forth over 'The Blind Side' misses the big picture. So did Michael Lewis 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z We weren’t going to get out of here without a Scandinavian mystery, and this one has the benefit of a strong female-led cast and an emphasis on human frailty rather than gritty perversity. Our critic picks 30 TV shows from around the globe to stream right now 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z That he assigns this psychologically straining task to Emmanuèle — the one he had the most up-and-down relationship with — is viewed by the sisters as an act of either “love or perversity.” Review: 'Everything Went Fine' reveals the love required to grant the ultimate final wish 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z They were not civilized intellectuals “milking on their own perversities and brutalities.” First love, first flesh and Americana in ‘Bones and All’ 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Cozy mysteries give you the benefits of more uncomfortable mysteries — the suspense, the puzzles — without the gore, the sensationalism, the foregrounded perversity. Our TV critic picks 42 cozy mysteries to curl up with this summer 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z They, after all, produced living and abiding evidence of enslavement’s perversity. Opinion | Slavery reckoning requires confronting sexual exploitation of Black women 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Eisenman has lately funneled much of her perversity into raucous sculptures that answer exactly to the tenor of our ghoulish, carnivalesque politics. Perspective | Join the crowd 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Somehow, this perversity works — at least dramatically, if not in terms of a functioning family unit. Review | A dying teen goes out with fireworks in the moving yet unsentimental ‘Babyteeth’ 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “Whoever was behind the Pegasus attacks on a young teen’s iPhone, who was studying in the United States, displays a great degree of perversity,” she says. Voice of defiance: the Mexican radio journalist who refused to be silenced 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Rather than offering up another well-traveled biographical formula, they want to plunge deeper and darker, to allow the wild, untamed perversity at the story’s edges to flourish and grow toward the middle. Review: In 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' a brutal, sexy, spellbinding take on outlaw legend 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z In this first, foundational “chapter,” you’ll find pieces examining the consequences of past pandemics, the perversities of American health care, the particular cruelties of racism, and the moral dimensions of this emergency. Opinion | We Were Planning an Inequality Project. Then History Lurched. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z As storytellers, Hernandez and Lazarte are more interested in human goodness than perversity — even the FBI agents speak of lower-level participants in the fraud as “good people” — and their epilogue is unexpectedly touching. 'McMillions' turns the McDonald's Monopoly scam into unmissable TV 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Porter is so famous for his gifts as a lyricist that it might seem mischievous to the point of perversity to suggest that his real greatness resides in his skills as a composer. The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet taken together, they suggest a society in which discontent, dysfunction and sheer perversity were rampant. Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Somehow, in the perversity of hypercapitalism, the purchasing of more plastic is considered “developed.” Humanity can’t recycle its way out of consumption problems 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Critics of the diverse classroom libraries wore green, holding signs with phrases such as “your diversity is perversity.” Angry parents protest LGBTQ books in Virginia classrooms 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z This poignant frustration, and a resulting antic perversity, run throughout Hammons’ work. If an artist sets up a homeless camp inside a blue-chip art gallery, does anyone care? 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z He also achieves a heart-melting rapport with his toddler co-star, whose character is a testament to both this story’s extraordinary perversity and its improbable beauty. Review: Robert Pattinson takes a dark, thrilling space odyssey in 'High Life' 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z The two most recent general elections illustrate this formula’s political perversity. Brexit has nearly broken British politics. Here’s how to fix it | John Coakley 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Cuomo called “All in the Family” a brilliant show but noted that it “was a parody of the perversity of ignorance in the form of Archie Bunker.” CNN hosts Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon perform bizarre duet of ‘All in the Family’ theme song 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Of course, it is important that the church investigate what in its culture gives rise to such perversity. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z This power of perversity may help to explain why Ted Bundy is having another cultural moment. Opinion | Audiences love villains. They should stop loving Ted Bundy. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In our name, and with our taxes, we let them kill who they like in the service of their bored, baroque perversity, because we don’t care enough to stop them. Frankie Boyle’s review of 2018: 'Let's forget Brexit and enjoy our last Christmas with running water' 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Over the phone, Steve McQueen described her rigorousness as related, in part, to her interest in “the perversities of life and the perversities of the social situations that we find ourselves in.” Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Our film tries to see Owen not as a doomed hero but as an ambitious young man with a brilliant future; to set him free from the perversity of war. Into the dark water: Philip Hoare on the life and death of Wilfred Owen 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Most frustratingly, the adaptation abandons the raw feminine perversity that made Jackson’s story so indelible. Netflix’s Soul-Dead Version of “The Haunting of Hill House” 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It was a perversity on the part of the prison: They wouldn’t allow anything to grow freely, including weeds. ‘Suffering and Hardship Belong to Me’: A Voice From a Chinese Prison 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The perversity of society’s current approach to poverty alleviation and access to energy is that it artificially constrains economic development. To End Poverty, Increase Access to Energy 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z If there’s any way to escape this double bind and establish some agency, it may be to approach womanhood like Flynn does, as just another perversity among many. Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet Shiv has a slovenly, impulsive perversity of her own. “Succession” ’s Satisfyingly Nasty Family Ties 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But understanding the perversity of rightwing populism only brought me to another mystery: the continuing failure of liberals to defeat this thing, even as its freakishness and destructiveness became apparent to everyone. Can liberals please work out how to win back the working class? | Thomas Frank 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Thoroughly trained in literature and philosophy, Sontag applied the standards of the past—truth, beauty, transcendence, spirituality—to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation, extremity, perversity. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z The perversity of all of this only becomes clearer when you consider the general powerlessness of American workers. America’s most insidious union-buster? Its own government | Sandeep Vaheesan 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The fact that he supports the case for Williams to be seeded at Wimbledon – to be announced on Wednesday – only underlines the perversity of his stance on equal pay. John McEnroe treads carefully as gender pay row returns at Wimbledon | Kevin Mitchell 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In any case, he admires the Christmas cards as much as the canvases, saying both display the artist’s characteristic mix of “sweet innocence and strong perversity”. Warhol for hire: Andy's ads for Idaho potatoes (and other lucrative sidelines) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “White skin was associated with ‘normal’ gender systems, dark skin with immaturity and perversity.” The crisis in modern masculinity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z One simply cannot keep up with, much less respond with proper outrage to, all of this guy’s scandals, bungles, blame-shifting, name-calling and missteps, his sundry acts of mendacity, misanthropy, perversity and idiocy. One year in — hang in there 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z This shows the perversity in a levy that was ostensibly created to ensure that the wealthiest pay income tax. No Alternative, No Tax Problem 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Readers will be invited to gape at the latest perversity served up by our radicalized professoriate and to mourn the decline of their dear old alma mater. Are elite universities 'safe spaces'? Not if you're starting a union | Thomas Frank 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z It illuminates, however, not a regional peculiarity but a national perversity, that of the Republican Party. Opinion | The GOP has become the party of the grotesque 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “Tennis commentary is generally pretty dull. Ours is grounded in the compelling perversity that the cuisine, climate and class structure of Scotland can produce a tennis champion like Murray.” Support for Murray That’s Loud, Clear and Nearly Out of ‘Trainspotting’ 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The perversity of such thinking is hard to surpass. Fox columnist says Trump can order FBI to stop any investigation 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z But what’s missing from this production is the darkness — the perversity, even — that informs du Maurier’s work, and that would elevate an attractively illustrated story into aesthetically and psychologically vivid cinema. Review | ‘My Cousin Rachel’ review: Pretty to look at, but a little dull 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But they do not describe Kennedy’s tortured inner life or explain the sheer perversity of his attempt to compel LBJ to accept him as his running mate. Opinion | Robert Kennedy: compassionate or vengeful, or both? 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z To an unusual extent, his rise and fall also spoke to the peculiar warps and perversities of that era. Manuel Noriega, a Thug of a Different Era 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The viewers suffered along with him, through excruciating events that seemed drawn out to the point of perversity. Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks is the audience: once delighted, now disintegrating 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Today’s top executives are devoted work-worshippers, nearly to the point of perversity. The new status symbol: it’s not what you spend – it’s how hard you work 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Would lowering the tax rate really result in less perversity? How Best to Tax Business 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Scott called the film “a masterpiece of suave perversity” while L.A. Isabelle Huppert breaks through with the fearless audacity of 'Elle' 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The Journal eventually published a hundred and twenty-nine articles, the first of which acknowledged the perversity of the project: Intellectuals for Trump 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z The New York Times primly notes that the academy is famous for “its at times almost willful perversity in picking winners.” The prize that Bob Dylan really deserves 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z I try to draw from all this wisdom as I raise a boy in this thicket of hubris and perversity. Most teenagers are insane. I like that in a person. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Scott hailed the film as “a masterpiece of suave perversity” while celebrating it as “a duet for director and star.” Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert lean into the incendiary revenge of 'Elle' 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Whether or not Huppert’s willingness reinforces assumptions about American prudery and French perversity, one could scarcely have hoped for a more accomplished or satisfying outcome. Isabelle Huppert enthralls in Paul Verhoeven's masterful rape-revenge thriller 'Elle' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The first is a twisted tale of Los Angeles, of water, power and sexual perversity, and I hope not a metaphor for Madison Square Garden. Glimpses of Phil Jackson Come Into Focus at a Movie Night 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Sometimes, the perversity of the place is capable of slapping you right in the face. The Republicans and Democrats failed blue-collar America. The left behind are now having their say | Thomas Frank 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Instead, 314, which is more used to working on hospitality and public-park commissions, hopes its proposal will “allow the public to imagine the policy proposal in all of its gorgeous perversity”. Big Pink: Mexican architects imagine Trump's wall as Luis Barragán homage 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Set in the early 1950s, this toxic tale of madness, mendacity, perversity and revenge is a manic, ultimately wearying pastiche of that era’s cinematic genres. Kate Winslet stars in the stylish but nasty and uneven ‘The Dressmaker’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Another challenge is the perversity of English-language spelling: a stumbling block for some teachers as well as many students. Nicholson Baker chronicles school days in ‘Substitute’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Many Democrats, it’s no secret, see these perversities as a feature and not a bug—bringing closer the day when Washington will take charge of health care entirely. ObamaCare Death Spiral Update 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z An acceptable explanation for Washington gridlock and other Beltway perversities: Bugs are eating politicians’ brains. ‘BrainDead’: a comic thriller about politicians and bugs 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Through perversity or pride, Ali was often in conflict with his own people, a rebel within a rebellion. Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Related: China to release last prisoner jailed over Tiananmen Square protests But the families vowed they would not be silenced by such “detestable perversity”. Families of Tiananmen Square victims accuse Beijing of three decades of 'white terror' 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z It takes the logic of "keep your enemies closer" to perversity. Affair With Trump Risks a Breakup With Britain 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But what really lends distinction to her announcement is the perversity, the sheer incoherence of the kind of policies she seems to hope her husband will recommend. Why Hillary Clinton's 90s nostalgia is so dangerous | Thomas Frank 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But the perversity of the movie — and the pleasure it generates, and mostly sustains, over two steadily absorbing hours — runs deeper than its most obvious application points. 'The Lobster' offers a rich, surreal take on modern love 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Now, let us stop and smell the perversity. Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here's why | Thomas Frank 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z It is not mere perversity kicking in – although that is there in good measure – but the sort of pragmatism professional athletes must embrace if they are not to lose complete control of their sanity. Andy Murray takes rational approach to facing the mighty Novak Djokovic 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z There's a willful perversity in Tarantino's insistence on shooting his film in an uncommonly wide panoramic format, then containing most of the story inside a single increasingly claustrophobic room. The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino at his most sophisticated and sloppy 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But, in retrospect, that “Buffy” season, in all its gaudy perversity, its willingness to shock, feels underestimated. Jessica Jones: Graphic, Novel 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z The city of Miami Beach floods on such a predictable basis that if, out of curiosity or sheer perversity, a person wants to she can plan a visit to coincide with an inundation. Miami Underwater 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Islamic State has described Paris as the ”capital of abominations and perversity” and warned it will strike again. France struggles to come to terms with an attack that strikes at its core 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z And that was the point for the Islamic State militant group, which said that it struck France’s symbols of “perversity.” Paris Attacks: What We Know and Don’t Know 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Two of the targets included a soccer stadium where François Hollande was attending a game against Germany and a concert hall, where “a party of perversity” was taking place. What We Know About the Paris Attackers So Far 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z The perversities of the power sector damage many parts of economy. Catching up with China 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z That morning, he said, he had written a column about air-conditioning and climate change—the perversity of the status conferred by rendering buildings ice cold in hot places like Miami and Puerto Rico. The Man Who Stood Up to Trump 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Another reason for his newfound busyness is what Redford calls “perversity”—a word he uses a lot. Robert Redford: From Sundance Kid to Hollywood Legend 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z She captures the perversity that characterizes most of our relationships with the Internet. Personal (Search) History 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Arthur Schopenhauer complained that Euclid’s proofs were overcomplicated: “a brilliant piece of perversity”. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But that doesn't mitigate the perversity of someone in the top 0.5% income bracket actively trying to prevent her underlings from making enough to afford a one-room apartment and put food on the table. Millionaire CEOs should support a living wage for fast-food workers 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The apparently misguided pairing was exposed for all its perversity Wednesday, when the New York Times urged the world to add peas - Peas, I tell you! - to guacamole. Outraged over peas in guac? Wait until you try Brocamole! 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z According to Redford, perversity is part of his heritage. Robert Redford: From Sundance Kid to Hollywood Legend 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z And despite the reliable perversity of a first-past-the-post electoral system in a multiparty democracy, there’s never any easy way to tell whom it may favour. Canadian three-way split might enable Harper to pull a Cameron in fall election 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z It is this perversity of the environmental movement that I don’t understand. Oil Rises And The EPA Lives Up To The Law... Sorta 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The migration of the term itself is telling, exposing the core anxiety about teacher-student romances: that there’s a whiff of perversity about such couples, notwithstanding all the venerable married ones. Being Melodramatic About College Student-Teacher Relationships 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Without free access to perversity — to “candy bars” and “gratuitous bags of popcorn” — the children will never be normal. A Brief History of Kissing in Movies 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s an argument that would touch the edge of perversity if it were not so beautifully articulated, at length, as paradox. The View from a Bridge 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It is a well-documented perversity of American politics that even when people deeply disapprove of Congress as a whole, they generally approve of their local representatives. Deeply unloved and highly electable: US politicians annoy and conquer 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z If colleges admitted kids with the highest scores and companies hired applicants with the highest scores, Pinker writes, “many of the perversities of the current system would vanish overnight.” How to become a real person through college 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Let’s put the arrogance and perversity of the Fed’s approach to monetary policy aside for the moment, and look at some data. As Jobs Stagnate, Janet Yellen Plays Economic Pinball 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z And the kiss, meanwhile, has sacrificed its uniqueness, lost its glorious perversity. A Brief History of Kissing in Movies 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The moral perversity of the U.S. position is stunning. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters: Why moral perversity of U.S. position in Gaza is stunning 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z But here's another perversity: if someone passes the 65-week deadline, they are abandoned. Mentally ill people need to be helped, not hounded 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z He also provokes the perversity of our own imaginations. Matthew Barney: 'My work is not for everyone' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Murray has been in a hundred self-created messes such as this and invariably his perversity gets him out of trouble. Andy Murray wins bizarre French Open quarter-final with Gaël Monfils 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “People who wrote golf poetry were golfers, and they understood the perversities and intricacies of the game,” he added. A Look at Golf Poetry Through the Years 2014-04-05T17:45:44Z At the back of it all lies this question: Will those we elect ever manage to change the daily perversities of life? India Ink: Why I Won’t Run for Office in India This Time 2014-03-25T06:29:25Z There is perversity in the desire to micromanage health through small fact-gathering machines, placing the impetus of self-care on individuals in an environment that is increasingly hostile to the idea of a self. What the Next Generation of Health and Fitness Software Can Learn from Wii Fit 2014-03-07T18:53:00Z The perversity and naivete of Snowden’s logic is manifest in his fleeing to China and Russia, where speaking, thinking, living and being creative can actually lead to imprisonment and death. Edward Snowden Is Not 'Person Of The Year' 2013-12-18T14:42:00Z This is called irony or perhaps perversity cubed. Boswell: 2013 World Series: Fenway fans get chance to celebrate at home 2013-10-31T04:01:16Z The grim rollcall continued with blatant perversity even as the Justice Verma commission, set up to sharpen the law on sexual violence, completed its task with exemplary diligence and speed. India Ink: They Don’t Want to Become ‘Bravehearts’ 2013-08-27T07:45:21Z The perversity of policies adopted in the UK and eurozone is that, far from going for fiscal expansion, the likes of George Osborne have deliberately opted for contraction. Labour must not surrender its economic principles over Osborne's cuts 2013-06-29T23:04:18Z In 2000, The New York Times called him “the Svengali of sometimes gruesome, sometimes comical specials that took television to new heights — or depths — of perversity.” Mike Darnell, a Reality Show Creator, Is Leaving Fox 2013-05-25T00:46:05Z “This self-flagellation-as-skincare notion, where gamers loudly and proudly defend the destruction of their own rights as consumers, is an Orwellian perversity.” 'SimCity' Is 'Inherently Broken' 2013-03-11T20:11:23Z In the grip of this epic perversity, perhaps the most exhilarating realisation is that countless other successful ways of organising our affairs already exist. Apocalypse? No. But unless we change tack, the planet is running out of time 2013-03-01T13:46:24Z The true perversity was cycling's willing acceptance of doping. Armstrong stops fight, will lose 7 Tour de France titles 2012-08-24T05:11:20Z Doing so would help tackle one of the perversities of the illegal timber trade: An abundance of stolen timber depresses prices, slashes margins and can deter investing in better due diligence of their wood supplies. Insight: DNA tests tell trees from the wood; curb illegal logging 2012-08-19T21:03:23Z In keeping with the perversity of this narrative almost from day one, there was a quick rewrite in chapter three as his flow ebbed. Federer defies back injury to beat Malisse and reach quarters 2012-07-02T19:16:28Z Mohammad thought this disaster, destined to punish mankind for its perversity, was imminent. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z There is something grotesquely horrible in the contrast between this crowning exhibition of human perversity and the cool business calculation of the cost of thus sending a human soul through flame to its Creator. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z To a man like Saul, any assertion of her rights by his wife, any refusal to be his abject slave, any opposition to his wild and wicked designs against David, would mean perversity and rebellion. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z But from that time to the end of the war all was misapprehension and perversity. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z If my opinions are not right, at any rate they are the best I have been able to form, and better than any others I could take up at random, or out of perversity, now. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z Miracles have nearly always been powerless to convert hardened sinners and the only result of this marvel was a recrudescence of perversity among the people of Thamud. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z There is an instructive illustration of theological perversity in the watchful energy with which these provisions were enforced to the suppression of heresy while yet the pagan temples and ceremonies remained undisturbed. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z That fallible human perversity may be more powerful than omnipotent intent is a contradiction in terms. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Nothing can exceed the skill of the draughtsman of this series, except the perversity of the man, to whom no human activity seemed becoming unless its object was the lowest form of sensual pleasure. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Great was the surprise of the bystanders, who could not conceive what perversity possessed their wealthy neighbor. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z To you he always shows the more unpleasant side of his character, from some spirit of perversity, I suppose. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z Into this luxuriance of perversity, this decadent brilliance of vegetation, you have blossomed up, strange and new, for the delight of my soul. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z As for morality, it is the outcome of tribal taboos; the insect and animal world shows deepest-dyed immorality, revolting cruelty, and sex perversity. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z None of the dogs had ever been yoked before, and they displayed astonishing cunning and perversity to avoid whip and work. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z And this delicate perversity has its refreshing aspect. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z It will be noted that, so far as our fragments serve us, Celsus confines himself essentially to the charges of folly, perversity, and want of national feeling. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z And such is the perversity of human nature that it stirred him to espouse the cause of his speckled bird. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Such is the perversity of our nature, that the remuneration given with the greatest reluctance is the reward of those who restore us, or who conscientiously endeavour to restore us to health. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It was this, and their great perversity and pertinacity in dissensions, which had caused the priests whom they had had to leave them. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z It does sometimes seem as if the avenging angel wore your hue, and would place in your hands the sword to punish the cruel injustice of our fathers, the selfish perversity of the sons. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It must be remembered that the disease, with all its perversity, is as much a fact as pneumonia, and the element of sham is only one of its symptoms. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Ralph looked at him too, and through some wayward perversity of his nature his face grew more determined than ever. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z On the contrary, the Indians were wretchedly victorious, obliging the ministers, by their perversity, to go away and leave them in the darkness which they so loved and delighted in. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z Their meats they spoil with sprinkling cheese over them; O perversity! The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z My lord, out of perversity maybe, swore that Shane was stupid and viciously inclined, unworthy to inherit the honours of Sir Amorey. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Women are perverse, choosing always the left one, when they ought to take the right turning; and with the perversity of women Doreen chose at once to accept the most distasteful phase of the situation. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z What perversity was it that drove him home to receive a new humiliation? Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z These had been such as to overcome nearly all their perversity, and much has been said with regard to them already. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 2012-03-06T03:00:26.127Z Under no circumstances could I feel justified in taking advantage of the admissions that you have made as to the "errors" the "misfeasance" the "infirmities and the perversity" of the Christian Church. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Not that there is a blind fate, such as Pagans imagined; but that an all-seeing and all-governing God proposes to himself certain objects, which he is determined to attain, despite the perversity of man. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 2012-02-04T03:00:16.007Z "Devil take the shoes!" cried I; and thereupon, with a perversity which even I would not have attributed to her, she slipped a foot out of a shoe, and stepped deliberately into a puddle. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z “The perversity of the human animal,” he laughed. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z We look back now, shocked at the cognitive and moral perversity. Exhibition Review: Smithsonian and Monticello Exhibitions on Jefferson?s Slaves 2012-01-27T00:48:28Z There were Cathari of old, and Puritans since, impatient at the patience of God in bearing with the perversities and corruptions of the human intellect and will. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z But as regards skating, the children were doomed to disappointment, for, with the usual perversity of the English climate, the weather changed, and Christmas Eve brought a mild wind and drizzling rain. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z "I never met a man of so wicked a perversity," said she from behind me. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z But if the disobedient molecules corrupt each other continually, and the perversity spread, and the rebellious tracts multiply their elements; the whole body shall fall into dissolution, which is death. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z I began to imagine a perversity in his avoidance of the main issue. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z But mark the infatuated perversity with which he seeks to evade it. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Like the earlier book, it examined how perversities of both men and women limit their human vitality. Louise J. Kaplan, Psychoanalyst and Author, Dies at 82 2012-01-17T04:47:21Z I think that I showed too much anxiety, with my bobbings at the window, and exclamations, and that, seeing my alarm, she prolonged her speech out of sheer perversity to punish me the more. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Confound my perversity! why couldn't I take Myra's advice and keep Rose at home? Eight Cousins Or, The Aunt-Hill 2012-01-15T03:00:12.507Z She pleaded headaches; mother said liver; he, angry like a spoilt child denied his wish, declared it moodiness and perversity. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Rather it is life, which with the same perversity baffles the single-hearted, bewilders the seeker, and juggles with and decapitates the ideas even as Harlequin dismembers the well-meaning and unoffending baker. Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z With the curious perversity that marks "patriotic" judgments, the whole tendency of the English has been to make comparisons with Germany to the disadvantage of themselves and of other European countries. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Yet the judgment of an age may seem to us the veriest nonsense of perversity. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z It is, I confess, sheer perversity that made that stanza come into my head while I was reading Tagore. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Miss Jennings, finding that her defensive attitude was entirely unnecessary, promptly set out with the perversity of her sex—or perhaps quite unconsciously—to stimulate her employer's interest in her. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z So, in a spirit of natural perversity, it seemed like a good time to look at a developer whose team and P&L extends to the edge of his skin. Greedy Bankers and One-Man Game Development 2011-12-21T18:25:14Z Thus the tendency to combat is not a mere human perversity, but is part of the self-protective instinct rooted in a profound biological law—the struggle of nations for survival. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z They also, for the people's perversity, withdrew the showers of heaven, and again in mercy permitted them. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z De Gourmont is a wise man, who, like Socrates and William James, is not afraid to joke, and some of his perversities are uttered with his ironic tongue in his cheek. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z He could only lift his hands in amazement that such perversity should be possible. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Women he usually saw as lard or bone, and this strange perversity of vision and art differentiates him from the moderns by more than time. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Wisely intended, unwisely executed, misread, it added to the record of human perversity another of those immensely pitiful blunders that solely and alone are the cause of human unhappiness. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z He would not predestine the wicked to his kingdom, because he knew that they would be such, through their own transgression and perversity. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z The faithful will no doubt find it delicious; and I, though an outsider, got through it without fatigue and with a kind of perverse pleasure in its perversity. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z This, even for the Treasury, has always appeared to us a masterpiece of perversity. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z But when in the course of the following day Miss Dobbs looked in again, by some odd perversity she was inclined to share this view to the full. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z I hear that the perversity of deciding doctrines by counting heads is emphatically dwelt on. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z Wonder was felt that Scripture, purporting to contain the will of deity, should not be expressed so unmistakably that ignorance could not misunderstand it, nor perversity misconstrue it. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z He made merry at the expense of his critics, or bewailed the perversity of their opposition; but he always encouraged them to "lay on." The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Claire's aspect breathed such desperation that it wrought havoc even with so stolid a perversity as that of the harsh, unpropitiable being whom she confronted. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z With that singular and unfortunate perversity which makes authors proudest of their lamest offspring, Mr. Hardy has apparently abandoned the novel for poetry and the poetic drama. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z He spoke, with quiet dignity and freedom, of the perversity and shamefulness of the meddling Roman domination, the system of dispensations, and the unmeasured centralization. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z With his resentment of her counsel came her first disheartening insight into the shallowness and perversity of his nature. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z His great vice seems to me his perversity in logical activities, his bad reasonings. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Mrs. Mason’s perversity is very annoying to me, especially as Mr. Tighe is seriously my friend. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Of this extreme of perversity I am afraid I must ask you to find what explanation you can. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z But enough of the creature impulse toward perversity, admitting that his gain would be as great as hers, restrained her. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z With this idea dragged well into the foreground again, what demon of perversity made him lift a hand above the banisters and hold the girl's fingers fast to the polished rail? The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z To delight in human misery is the last degree of earthly degradation and perversity. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z "Then what have you gained by your stupid perversity?" Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z "I'm sufficiently acquainted with the meteorological perversities of the country." A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z None of them had ever been yoked before, and the amount of cunning and perversity they displayed to avoid both the whip and the work, was quite astonishing. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z If she had gone obviously out of her way to make herself agreeable to him, he, with the perversity of his type, would have been more on his guard against her blandishments. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Was it recklessness, was it perversity, or was it malice aforethought, that withheld from the prisoners the means of shelter? Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The Jacksonians accordingly took the opposite side on all these points, partly from principle and partly from perversity. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Hugo, even with his perversities and his literary contradictions, can move us as no other man can. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z I know that by sheer perversity I kept thinking of the narrow-gauge canyon of a city street, as I gloried in this cosmic openness of tropical river and jungle and sunset. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Watzdorf although brought up at the court and accustomed to look at its perversity, which might corrupt him also, was a man to be feared for his honesty and integrity. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z “What perversity,” I asked, “are you, with an ingenuity worthy of a better cause, trying to work out?” Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z I also loved him in spite of his perversity. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Many old gardens of this sort that remain to us are far more beautiful than the modern formal gardening, which by a strange perversity has been kept naked of plants or flower life! Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z Life had accorded her one other opportunity, and, with the relentless perversity of her fate, she had lost it by an accident, by a quarter of an hour, by a chance meeting with Daisy! The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z One who looked at Br�hl at a moment when he thought he was not observed, would have seen under that sweet smile a cold perversity, the depths of which were frightening. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z That was her perversity, once more, but on this occasion her perversity admitted of an obvious explanation. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z She shows perversities and virtues her parents never dreamed into the plans they laid for her. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z They sought each other with the old perversity of antipodal natures. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z I put his assent down to sheer perversity, for I should have breakfasted in any case. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z He might have lived elsewhere; but nowhere else could he have gratified his perversity with such completeness. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It was direct disobedience of orders, and contrary to the most elementary rules of moose hunting; but, cold and faint for want of food, we yielded to the innate perversity of the Indian. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy, and, being already much excited, Meg opposed the old lady with unusual spirit. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z And such is the perversity of the human soul that his heart ached as the launch darted up the Pasig. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The perversity of such a selection is the more obvious, because those who made it must have passed by a score of admirable points eminently superior in all respects to the one now occupied. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z But in Masterman's nature there was a curious element of perversity, which often prevailed over the dictates of reason and even of self-interest. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z The perversity of a few wretched "naturalists" in continuing to be moral is explained as a case of survival; the moral naturalist is the parasite who draws his sustenance from the organism which he infests. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z The viewer is plunged into a world of hallucinatory strangeness — full of wild coincidence, seething emotion and elegant perversity — that also feels unnervingly contemporary. A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z I don’t know what perversity of fate kept those influences out of your life, but all that is wayward in you and bitter seems to have been caused by their lack.” The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z Tell me, is that a picture of a cruel God? of One who does not feel for the weakness and perversity of human nature? Niece Catherine 2011-07-30T02:00:13.927Z Well, I don't know how to describe it, but it's more than mere pride and perversity. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z They had expected, moreover, to find such a balance of evidence on their own side, that no one except from wilfulness and perversity could decide the other way. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z He is no longer scandalised by the excesses of ignorance, nor the perversities of selfishness. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Every man will be his own Lawyer and his own Doctor, and such is the perversity of human nature, he will also be his own Iago, and feed himself with suspicions. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z What temperamental perversities in me must be set aside in order to render my reader’s approach to what I would tell him pleasant? The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Instead, the school seems to be benefitting from many of legal education’s assorted perversities. Law School Economics: Ka-Ching! 2011-07-16T17:24:08Z In the writing of novels, I have always been seriously embarrassed by the strange perversity of fictitious people. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Mazzini understood this, and did not regard as perversity the prohibition of conscience. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z There was, indeed, a degree of perversity in the case that almost justified his thinking himself the most unfortunate of mortals. The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:14.900Z What temperamental perversities in him must be accepted by me as fixed facts, conditioning all I say? The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z We were more than ten versts from Georgief, when we were stopped in a village by the perversity of a postmaster, who refused to let us have horses at any price. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z With the usual perversity of things in general and motor-cycles in particular, it was the magneto that was out of action. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z You can form no idea of the perversity of the restless thing that used to be a manageable member, when I had leave to walk, or sit still as I liked. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Fate had willed that that day the Irish helper in a spirit of impish perversity should have annoyed the cook in various covert and ingenious ways until the latter's irritation broke all bounds. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Thus it happened, by some jocose perversity in the arrangement of human affairs, that throughout our Sophomore and Junior years we sportive youngsters were obliged to endure Sophocles, and Sophocles was obliged to endure us. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z "You hate my friend, the chevalier, with a strange perversity," remarked the disapproving Margaret. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Moored close by her was a smack from Dundee, and on board this smack, by one of the minor perversities of fate, who should be a passenger but Charles Brown? Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Dear Eunice! her love—tried as it had been by her perversity and reserve, her late violent and selfish distress—was more precious than ever before. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z The readers of Upton’s revelations may often be amused by his lettered ingenuity reasoning with eager perversity. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Byron looked upon the evils from which he and others suffered as due largely to the perversity of society. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z "She ministered to all his whims and perversities." My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Some of them hung well over the river; others took refuge in the tops of trees; but by hook or by crook, we usually got the better of such perversities. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z What an escape had England from her folly, perversity, and injustice! The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z I cannot tell, Raymond, save it be the natural perversity of men. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z But this perversity might be cured, and if it were cured an earthly Elysium seemed a thing not wholly unreasonable to expect. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z But it was only too clear that the Government was at bottom infected with the same perversity as the mistaken dairy-farmers. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z It is not without perversities; neither is it wanting in vigour and fervour of thought. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Here, as in the matter of "Patience," he could not forgo the perversity of lending colour to other people's parodies of himself. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Too much of what is called “sexual purity” is very often an expression of sexual perversity. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It suggests the secret of human follies, misconceptions, and perversities, and gives the key to greatness and nobility in character. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Had she been hardened in perversity she could not so soon have reached a state of repentance. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z That Blake may be cleared from any charge of perversity, a brief account of the quarrel is here appended. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Paradox and perversity were matches to set fire to his thought and his dreams. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The silver discs rolled swiftly away into various inaccessible corners of the room, with the perversity usually observed in such cases. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z There is such a singular perversity about him! That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z Yet in strange perversity she is often none of these things. The Girl in Her Teens 2011-04-26T02:00:26.063Z The perversity here is that laws meant to protect children acquaint them far too early with police stations, courtrooms and handcuffs. School Kids in Handcuffs Reveal Teacher Bondage: Amity Shlaes 2011-04-25T23:05:44Z These Fire Zouaves, my boy, have a perversity about them not to be repressed. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z There was, to her thinking, a strange perversity in the girl's character, which made her callous where she should be sensitive, and sensitive where she might well be indifferent. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z But what spirit of perversity was ruling her? Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z In the pursuit of it they were willing to be candid at the risk of perversity, while they obstinately denied that there should be any relation between art and morals. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Of course things were not working out as I had planned, but I was beginning to get used to Fate's perversity. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The powerful impression of his perversity is heightened by contrast with the loyalty of his son Baldovino. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I shrank from the thought of it, and begged my father to allow me to refuse; but he laughed at what he took to be girlish perversity. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z As if impelled by perversity, Adrian drove through one swarming avenue after another, across the square and down the street where the morning's attack had taken place, swinging finally into the dark, deserted park. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z You must be charitable and put all this perversity to my being disappointed since my boyhood. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z But there was that streak of perversity within, which impelled him to do or say the wrong thing, when at the same time an inner voice was admonishing him to do the opposite. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Ardent inclinings had she, and side she took; but, strange perversity, against the Parliament, not for it! No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z A paper of strictly aristocratic-conservative tendencies, patronized by himself, taken in by his fellow-aristocrats, but read by absolutely no one--excepting the liberal newspaper writers when in search of reactionary perversities. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z That Helen should prefer a stranger to herself she regarded as merely another proof of her stepdaughter's perversity. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z I say apparent, because when the primum mobile is once understood, all these little perversities of lovers' quarrels are beautifully consistent, and always traceable to the one great original cause. The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z It is only when perversity is added to foolishness, that a being—not an idiot—is utterly a fool. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z His contradictions of feeling began to crystallize into a persistent perversity. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z "The little rascals!" she exclaimed, with an admiring laugh at the ingenious perversity of her mischievous pets. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Everything and everybody in his day and generation became to him, on account of his intense loyalty to his inward vision, an instance of divine graciousness or of devilish perversity. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z It was introduced by the perversity of society. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z I understand, little wife, but I fear that my streak of perversity is a broad one, and has solely been the bane of my life; it has a fatality accompanying it. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Ireland's record in Cardiff since they won the triple crown in the Welsh capital in 1985 is one of international rugby's perversities: nine victories, one draw and one defeat, in 2005. Six Nations 2011: Warren Gatland prepares Wales to run at Ireland 2011-03-11T19:21:51Z “Well,” said he, with a smile, “art thou not afraid, prince, to enter a Phœnician temple where cruelty sits on the altar and perversity ministers?” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z But even this perversity has stages; and Dante distinguishes ten sorts of dishonesty or simple fraud, as well as three sorts of treachery. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Now really this perversity was hardly to be endured, even in a learned Dominie, who, with all his cold indifference of feeling, was sitting toasting himself at a good smithy fire. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z Don't speak of your wickedness, for real wickedness is perversity. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Perhaps it was a girlish perversity; perhaps she really disliked the idea of again meeting or making an acquaintance. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z When I grew more composed, I sent for Mary Anne, and told her everything; but just to show you the perversity of human nature, she would n't agree to one word I said. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The perversity of the falling out of events dismayed and daunted old Ephraim. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Sunday was, however, his one free day, and by some inconceivable perversity they usually spent the entire of it at home. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z A book that is absolutely tainted with moral perversities or shows a foolish and inconceivable conception of intellectual values will be certainly deficient in some phases of beauty. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He began a new existence with his loss of sight—the old world vanished away completely, and left him but one friend from it—let him not lose that one by his perversity or pride. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z He conceived that the state of affairs came about more because of a dormant moral nature than because of moral perversity; and as to this he was partly right. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z "You saw her when she was only semi-conscious, when she was physically incapable of acting a part—did she during that time, either by word or look, betray moral perversity?" Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z To-day, as well as yesterday, I left some silver behind me, but it was interesting to see the perversity with which the good housewife persisted in declining it. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Whose rejects the words of noble righteous saints On his own head brings ruin by his perversity, As bamboo trees put forth their fruit and die away. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z “I’ve just told the players there’s a perversity about us,” he said. Global Soccer: Something Strange Is in the Air in England 2011-02-06T19:00:28Z There is always much trouble in starting a team of mules, as the natural perversity of the animals prevents them from all pulling at once and together, until they are fairly started. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z Out of pure perversity they stole fishing nets and tackle, robbed farmers’ hen roosts, and dismantled yachts and yawls. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z For example, many of the troubles between the races attributed to the perversity of the Negro are often only the common difficulties which arise out of the relationship of employer and employee. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Alone, he would give way to furious hatred for himself and his degradation, and by the startling perversity of the drunken, hurry into a stupor to stifle remorse. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z And Guthrie in a sudden perversity of shock and embarrassment lied grimly: "Dr. Andrews!" The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z After one of those months of perversity, she felt a need to let her vagrant, rosy imaginings rise like a whirling mist before her half-closed eyes. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z I suppose it is due to the perversity of the human animal that he craves what is sometimes called a "balanced ration." Camping at Cherry Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:23.997Z With an ingrained perversity, the more Laura Grey warned me against this man, the more I became interested in him. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z She reached home shortly after ten, angered at herself—inexplicable perversity—because she had taken Bellingham and the women so seriously.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z For it is one of the little perversities of American sport that its annual recruitment round - the draft - seeks to match the top players emerging from college sport with the weakest professional teams. Field of dreams 2010-06-12T10:53:00Z Herein, in fact, lies Britain's weakness; it is strength ill-directed; and is indicative rather of the perversity of young blood than of the precision of mature years. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. An instinct of obedience, an inclination to unconditional absolute subjection under absolute authority prevails among Mohammedans, to which the utmost cruelty appears endurable, the utmost perversity natural. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII The country was wooded and park-like; and with a strange perversity he sought the open, when he might have obtained help had he sought the nearest village. A Double Knot He had the perversity to believe that many of his inclinations must be worn-out, instead of controlled. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The perversity of the fate which governs the relations of England and Ireland obtrudes itself once more in this connection. The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin What devil of perversity had seen fit to drag Paul Valmain upon the scene? The Belovéd Traitor No; for varied folly, for rich and highly developed perversities, combining all that is choicest of masculine and feminine foible—for this and much more, commend me to the hen. The Jonathan Papers What incredible perversity it Was that no one—no prisoner, no guard, not even the clear-eyed matron—would see the obvious fact that she was not a criminal as these others were. Manslaughter The degradation which she had felt at the first moment of his summons—was all from her own perversity.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z He interrupted her then, a mixture of several feelings in him—shame, the pain of frustrate yearning, perversity too. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath His dreams, with their usual perversity, had not been realized, though on more than one occasion he had made efforts to find his ideal. The Gay Adventure A Romance The innate perversity of his character marred all these high qualities. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 I often envy the composure of the people here, and curse our perversity, always restlessly seeking, and restlessly desiring. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. And she has no one to blame for her wretched feeble, exhausted condition but herself—her own obstinacy, selfishness and perversity. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future Nor is it strange that a man, with no more vanity than myself, should find some little vexation at the perversity of Lady Jane in fastening this ridicule upon me. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec For this perversity of the philosophic tradition Plato is perhaps, more than any one else, answerable. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It would seem as though the natural perversity of this abandoned woman, having till then slumbered, was suddenly awakened, and developed itself with fearful energy. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Error, weakness, perversity--I repeat it--are very human evils, and do not lead to God. The Children of the World And I had been reproaching myself, for not having adjured more sternly that ill demon of perversity. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales Out of sheer perversity the crab directed me wrongly, but in good time, after some wandering here and there, I discovered the lobster. Bill the Minder It is part of the perversity of the thing that they should be so difficult to manage. The New Gulliver and Other Stories All the impish perversity, all the wriggling restlessness of the small boy were to be found in the person of the handsome, erratic, little Mabel. Life on the Stage If blundering in politics occurred, it was blundering leadership, for the most part, and more easily corrected than perversity in the ranks. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses She laid aside all hauteur, all perversity, and gave herself unreservedly to her good friends. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop And this perversity, which ruined him, is traced back to “the illusions of pride.” The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus But especially does perversity attach itself to roses. The New Gulliver and Other Stories We always admire pictures that are so ticketed, don't we?—from sheer perversity, I suppose. Love's Usuries A garish artificiality spoils much of his work; but this was through wilful perversity. The Vagabond in Literature With a perversity characteristic of her sex, she forbade Bowen to see her, and then spent hours in speculating as to when and how he would disobey her. Patricia Brent, Spinster For anything except to put an end, as any man worthy of the name would have put it, to your systematic, to your idiotic perversity. The Spoils of Poynton Besides," returning with some slight perversity to the charge, "shall I tell you a secret? Faith and Unfaith Meanwhile, with the perversity of woman, she pined for him, and haunted every concert room to hear the voice of his art. Love's Usuries And with the gentle perversity that sometimes affects the most thoughtful amongst us, she went on talking upon the unwelcome subject. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life It was all of a piece with his perversity that he should have hidden so long his strongest claim to sympathy. The Great Miss Driver Her perversity was distinctly too much for him. The Spoils of Poynton And if you had no perversity, no pretty whims, where should we all be? The Day of His Youth And yet, according to the perversity of women-kind, she spoiled and indulged the son whose love of fine things seemed likely to be his bane, and brought perpetual trouble upon his good and honourable father. Under the Mendips A Tale There was, indeed, something like perversity, it must be allowed, in this firm refusal of Constantia to reward so devoted an attachment. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 I dropped into romance as many men drop into drink, or opium-eating, or other bad practices, not of native perversity, but by pure force of circumstances. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Out of sheer perversity Plaster was disposed to tell her that he would feel dead and buried for at least a year before the time she mentioned, but instead he swallowed hard three times. The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium This was simply her means, however, of suggesting the intense nervous perversity of Salome. Interpreters I understood him that it was he who was bored, he who had been pursued, he for whom perversity had become a dreadful menace, he, in fine, who pleaded for my intervention. The Sacred Fount Mrs Loftus spoke with an air of injury which seemed to imply that the deceased gentleman had died out of pure perversity, and her husband knitted his brows in disapproving fashion. The Daughters of a Genius “I did not bring it down, for with characteristic perversity, the ill-conditioned biped has chosen to yield up the ghost at the top of the cliff, whereas we are at the bottom.” A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance But pride, perversity, superficiality of the deductive faculty, triumphed. In the Whirl of the Rising A strange chapter, truly, in the history of human folly and perversity! Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) These people were decadent; any sort of perversity might be expected to be encountered among them. Red Nails Strange perversity is it not; but how naturally one likes everything to have some feature or other out of keeping with its intrinsic purport! A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Men are receiving in themselves the fitting reward of their perversity. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition In emptying rites into this furnace Nineveh also projected her gods, the princes of the Chaldæan sky, the lords of the ghostland, that, in patient perversities, her seers had devised. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern To fall into the hands of an extortioner is always a terrible thing, but to have a mechanical extortioner hold power over me; there was a horror beyond words in this perversity. The Brain "I only hope most heartily that you may be happy, and may never repent your obstinacy and perversity." Gertrude's Marriage But Mrs. Lawrence maintained her manner of gracious, rather amused tolerance with an absurd hot-headedness, perversity, on his part. Fidelity A Novel There is such a thing as an inheritance of moral weakness or perversity which passes to men without their fault and without their knowledge. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition A vision of Mrs. Caldwell watching for Sheila flashed across Ted's mind and strengthened his resistance against this further perversity. The Torch Bearer You won't leave, I can see that now; it's partly my fault and partly the perversity of the male. The Brain Ah, the humiliation was nothing to the dreadful feeling that stole over her and chilled her to the heart--the pain of wounded pride and with it the old bitter perversity. Gertrude's Marriage That people should be dominated by things they ought not to feel was perversity on their part and the most wilful kind of wickedness. Fidelity A Novel As I went I reflected bitterly on the perversity of cow nature. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls He alleged perversity of character and incompatibility of temperament--- the only charges he could prefer--in Scribonia, and sent her a letter of separation only a few days after his child had been born. Roman Women A hypocrite, being a personification of vice complete, includes in himself the two poles of perversity. Toilers of the Sea The little animals will show much ingenuity in procuring substances that make the belly ache; and, with infantine perversity, will, of their own accord, gobble things which, if administered, would excite shrieks of resistance. The Dog And we quickened our steps, when, with almost human perversity, it turned a distant corner, and vanished from sight. An American Girl Abroad The extreme harshness of many of these lines is almost a match for anything in Surrey, only what in Surrey is helplessness seems the perversity of strength in Browning.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History “Ready!” answered Martin, yielding to the call of sheer perversity. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients We are pained by it; we feel humiliated by 465 it; we lament its persistence and its perversity. The Intellectual Life Is there not, without comparison, more perversity in this respect amongst Christians than there ever was amongst the Jews of old? A Treatise on Relics Every difference between parent and child is somehow assumed to be rooted in and ascribable to the inherent perversities of the parental-filial relation. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home He wanted to make her see this, and he could not find words adequate to express the subtle perversity of the thought. Command Herr Lindau attributes the sterility of his later years to indolence and perversity; and it is probable that there is not a little justice in the charge. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Through some perversity, altars have taken their place, while the northern and southern entrances have been pushed westward, opening into the first bays of the side aisles. Cathedrals of Spain He that sleeps the sleep of perversity, who etc. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms I believe you overheard what Abbie said, and are riding him out of sheer perversity. The Song of the Wolf Intellectually, at least, there was no thought of his she could not share and appreciate; and her sense of humor and her feminine perversities would always delight him. Ancestors A Novel The cooks, teamsters and other hangers-on saw the trouble and came flocking around with all manner of jesting remarks and laughter, which strained Si's temper to the utmost, and encouraged the boys in their perversity. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign “The perversity of a treacherous mother-in-law, into whose clutches I fell, has held me confined here during the last ten years; liberate me, valiant warrior, and I will grant any favour you choose to solicit.” Devil Stories An Anthology Thou that sleepest the sleep of perversity, bull that overwhelms, thy name is on the lands. Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms "You speak," said the Counsellor, "like a physician and chemist, you deny that the soul can appropriate to itself immutable perversities which afterwards constitute its life." The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. I kept my mouth shut about germ theories of disease, having no troops to enforce orders and finding that mere advice incited downright perversity. Our Southern Highlanders The act of incivility was very slight; but, my young friend, the unaccountable perversity of your character certainly fills my mind with serious apprehension concerning your future. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part “Baudelaire,” said Théophile Gautier, his master and friend, “had a singular prepossession for the devil as a tempter, in whom he saw a dragon who hurried him into sin, infamy, crime, and perversity.” Devil Stories An Anthology It has all its willful perversity, but with less ability. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 If we turn from Alcibiades the politician to Byron the poet, we have a no less memorable instance of intellectual power early linked with moral perversity and completely bewitched and bedevilled by presumptuous egotism. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 This might seem to be the very perversity of ignorance; but it was, in fact, renunciation on a point of honor, and native pride refused to see the matter in any other light. Our Southern Highlanders |
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