In some ways, our insistence on painting a batterer in black and white terms perversely blames the victim. From Wordnik.com. [Forgiving Chris Brown - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Sahib perversely refused to talk in his own tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
The world is a perversely complicated technicality. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Now, perversely, the Chinese government is helping his cause. From Wordnik.com. [Harry's Story] Reference
They still perversely lulled themselves into a false security. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
In this day and age, it's becoming a perversely revolutionary idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Problem] Reference
As his indictment looms, Dixon proves a perversely uncooperative client. From Wordnik.com. [Lust And The Middle-Aged Lawyer] Reference
And right now, a contrarian can find plenty of perversely bullish signs. From Wordnik.com. [Why Stocks Still Aren't Cheap] Reference
Otherwise, the enormous emptiness was safely and perversely empty, all around. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
As the charismatic, perversely upright leader of the GSE, he makes you root for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Soccer Movies] Reference
To dislike him intensely, in a sense increases our interest in him, though perversely. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Mr Horne spitefully and perversely misrepresents the character of Pope's translations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Well, well," she said, perversely, "I was only curious about the distance and the country.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
But, perversely, she felt that to that particular Arab following her she would never give in. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
To convince them, interest rates might have to rise, which might perversely worsen the crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Priming the Economy] Reference
The great labor organizations he was so eager to conciliate perversely gave him no opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Line War] Reference
Yet perversely, most Europeans prefer the easy fantasy that they can somehow find a "third way.". From Wordnik.com. [A Last Chance For Europe] Reference
As investment fell relative to saving, China's trade surplus could (perversely) actually increase!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fed Is Also a Culprit in the Yuan-Dollar Tussle] Reference
It had the most capricious of natures, turning and perversely twisting among the farms and uplands. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"It's a new generation, and, perversely, emancipation allows women to aspire to martyrdom," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Women of Al Qaeda] Reference
Lamm was a contrarian, a well-intentioned politician who seemed almost perversely determined to offend. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Reruns] Reference
"Oddly and perversely, bad economic news on growth is good for the markets, and vice versa," says Quinlan. From Wordnik.com. [Dump and Run] Reference
This sort of rescue looks good, even though it is a bad idea and might perversely delay the housing recovery. From Wordnik.com. [How Not to Save Housing] Reference
Evans's skill at "chasing the splashes" had saved her, but so, perversely, had the weakness of the ship's armor. From Wordnik.com. [Dead In the Water] Reference
Although government can't easily dictate higher productivity, its policies may perversely favor lower productivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Mega-Worry] Reference
Excise the bill's provision that, perversely, will do away with private health insurance for low-income workers. From Wordnik.com. [Starting to Heal This Sick Bill] Reference
They're either lying or perversely pleased by the celluloid shiv he has shoved deep into the heart of their status quo. "". From Wordnik.com. [Beatty Goes Bonkers] Reference
But as interpreted by lawyers and implemented by lawmakers, the law has perversely worked to create less freedom, not more. From Wordnik.com. [A Return To Accountability] Reference
In the distorted world of China's "state capitalism," demand for "unneeded" housing is surprisingly if perversely rational. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of China's Property Boom] Reference
By squeezing states, they may (perversely, from their perspective) create pressures to expand national government and taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Why Not Tax The Internet?] Reference
This intermingling of Taiwanese nationalism and democracy has, perversely, made it harder to transplant the Taiwan model to the mainland. From Wordnik.com. [VIEWPOINT: DEMOCRATIC CONTAGION?] Reference
The reality, I think, is that the economy follows its own Catch-22: by taking prosperity for granted, people perversely subvert prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catch-22 Of Economics] Reference
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