ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERVERSE
From Old French pervers, from Latin perversus turned the wrong way.
10 QUOTES WITH «PERVERSE»
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perverse.
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERVERSE»
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perverse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
perverse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception
In Perverse Spectators, Janet Staiger argues that studying the interpretive methods of spectators within their historical contexts is both possible and necessary to understand the role media plays in culture and in our personal lives.
2
Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban ...
In PerverseCities, Pamela Blais argues that flawed public policies andmis-pricing create hidden, “perverse” subsidies andincentives that promote sprawl while discouraging more efficient andsustainable urban forms – clearly not what ...
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Why the Law Is So
Perverse
Conundrums, puzzles, and perversities: these are Leo Katz’s stock-in-trade, and in Why the Law Is So Perverse, he focuses on four fundamental features of our legal system, all of which seem to not make sense on some level and to demand ...
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The
Perverse Organisation and Its Deadly Sins
This book brings forth and examines the evidence as it reveals itself through one of the major institutions of our time: the work organization. Corporations and organizations for work are major centers of social activity.
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The
Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments ...
Offers a new interpretation of “sympathy” as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique.
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Perverse Romanticism: Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, ...
Through careful and imaginative readings of various scientific texts, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Longinus, and the works of such writers as William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Lord Byron, Sha explores the ...
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Garden of the
Perverse: Twisted Fairy Tales for Adults
Though reminiscent in flavor and style to traditional fairy tales, these stories wander into new and unique lands of surreal eroticism, exploring sensual and fetish dynamics in a diverse scope of fantastic places, bizarre creatures and ...
Sage Vivant, M. Christian, 2006
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The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a ...
This is essential reading for those in or aspiring to sustainability-literate leadership, and a must for all those teaching leadership and management.
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Tibor Kalman,
perverse optimist
Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist is the definitive and exuberant document of the late Tibor Kalman's work and ideas.
Tibor Kalman, Peter Hall, Michael Bierut, 2000
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A
Perverse History of the Human Heart
This is the fascinating history that Milad Doueihi tells in a book that follows the adventures of the human heart from the myth of Dionysos to works of Dante, Boccaccio and Francis Bacon; from the Eucharist to the emergence of medicine; ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERVERSE»
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perverse is used in the context of the following news items.
Why is EU free movement so important?
"So removing this would actually remove the perverse incentive where it's worth their while to come over to the UK from other EU member ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
The new pirate radio crackdown: 400 stations closed in the past two …
To shut them down seems perverse, but it is also what keeps pirates alive – without the cat-and-mouse chase with the police, these stations can ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
When American psychologists use their skills for torture
Further, and in a particularly perverse move, APA leaders repeatedly called on those with information about abuses—perpetuated by individual ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
'True Detective' Recap: The Great Escape
Weirdly, that's a step in the right direction for the show, where women are generally killed just to make some kind of perverse point. «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
Brian Monteith: SNP brass neck will harm business
... was “wrong-headed, perverse and downright outrageous” as well as writing to David Cameron accusing him of “taking such an anti-business ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
Fuel Subsidies Should Go!
He shouldn't bother. Or he should save his energy for other areas. It is the subsidy itself that has created the perverse incentives for corruption ... «THISDAY Live, Jul 15»
Conservatives Are Holding a Conversation About Race
Yet for Hood, it's not just political and policy defeats that make mainstream conservatives cuckolds but the fact that they seem to take a perverse ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
The Supreme Court: Too liberal?
The justices sometimes take a bit of perverse pride in unpopular decisions, saying they prove the value of an independent judiciary. The worst ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Will Intellectual Combat Ever Top William Buckley vs. Gore Vidal? A …
And there was a sort of perverse Freudian reciprocity between Vidal and Buckley that heightened their mutual wariness. As Tanenhaus puts it, ... «New York Magazine, Jul 15»
Trial court pulled up for perverse order
A sessions court has pulled up a magisterial court for framing of charges against a man in a domestic violence case saying the order is ... «The Statesman, Jul 15»
