Perversity

There's an icicle dagger in the demented heart of William Oldroyd's droll, immaculately crafted, genre-devouring portrait of perversity.

And the people of Nineveh were writing works of profanity, stealing from one another, engaging in all kinds of perversity, and other such wicked things.

At this stage, egotism is repressed, sensuality is important and what goes in here is what she called “polymorphous perversity”.

Ridiculous shutdowns, using the pandemic as an excuse awakened parents to the reality: your kids aren’t learning but they’re being indoctrinated on everything from politics to perversity.

The senior lawyer also said, "the appellants failed to show any perversity whatsoever in the findings of the Court of Appeal and the tribunal".

The perversity of it all is mind boggling.

This was the perversity of Hoard’s Australia – she said the things he believed in but dared not speak.

With limiting PG-13 ratings and scripts that have failed to recognise the streak of perversity that made the originals so much fun, they have often resembled cheap TV remakes, each as anonymous as the other.

Brenner claimed she gave Salim Akil her screenplay for Luv & Perversity in the East Village) in 2016.

The solution to our school shooting horror lies in our own hearts, where we must address our own deficiencies of character, eliminating perversity and license in our own behavior so as to present an example worthy of our children.

This is where the perversity of campaign finance law rears its exceedingly ugly head.

A portrait of Thomas Hardy in 1923 Many of Hardy's poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and "the perversity of fate", but the best of them present these themes with "a carefully controlled elegiac feeling".

At first these partial drives function independently (i.e. the polymorphous perversity of children), it is only in puberty that they become organized under the aegis of the genital organs.

History The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern version of Murphy's law are not hard to find.

The message is that urban life is tough stuff—it will kill you; Reed, the poet of destruction, knows it but never looks away and somehow finds holiness as well as perversity in both his sinners and his quest.

Variants One variant (known as O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics (related to the augmentation of entropy ): The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

Violence, gore, sexual perversity, and even the music can be pushed to stylistic excess far beyond that allowed by mainstream cinema.