Maybe it's the perversity of human nature, or don't they trust their fellow car drivers?. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
But the perversity is not limited to developing economies. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Chameides: The Invi$ibility of Nature: Green on Green] Reference
I tend think that I'm rather well versed in perversity and kink. From Wordnik.com. [Meanwhile...] Reference
But you have companionship in perversity. auntielou. From Wordnik.com. [Stubbornness and recommendations «] Reference
At the same time, we cannot claim that it actually cost 12 shillings, without indulging in perversity. From Wordnik.com. [Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History] Reference
"I come here every so often to absorb by proximity some of the intense perversity which is its reason for existence.". From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
FALWELL: I think you can experiment with any kind of perversity and develop an appetite for it, just like you can food. From Wordnik.com. [12/03/2004] Reference
"Banquet" of Xenophon -- a kind of perversity of comparison all too frequent with Thoreau. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Such is the two-fold perversity which is crushing the Psalmist's soul; the burden of proud evil and the burden of false virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference
By a perversity quite natural with me, my letter to. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
It's a perversity, I suppose, but that appeals to me a lot. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Oscars] Reference
Margaret, though chiefly out of perversity, to do likewise. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Some perversity kept her eyes upon her work, her hands occupied. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Aunt Fannie's asthma, with feminine perversity, was at its worst these. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
"Was ever such perversity!" was all she deigned to reply, biting her lip. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Once again the perversity of human nature has confounded our expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Innocents Lost] Reference
Observed in his perversity, self-consciousness would press on him like a stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Arab Bank] Reference
He intends to dazzle and seduce us with the romance of his suffering perversity. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted And Confused] Reference
He said there was no way the Constitution could be read to support such perversity. From Wordnik.com. [A Great Original's Lives At The Law] Reference
As all good crime writers understand: There's no bottom to the perversity of the human heart. From Wordnik.com. [Haunted And Confused] Reference
At various stages of this book I have found room for aristocratic eccentricity and perversity. From Wordnik.com. ['Aristocrats'] Reference
I exclaimed, almost in spite of myself, so excessive did the perversity of this man seem to me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What her mother had always called obstinacy and perversity were now stead-fastness in the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Not that I was predisposed to cross her plans and wishes with an obstinate perversity as of old. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Lest you believe me a loose rake, dissolute debauchee, with malignity and perversity as my design —. From Wordnik.com. [Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2] Reference
The seeds of mistrust and perversity sown by one man or by one woman bear fruit to be gathered by some one else. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He was tired from a strenuous day's work at the University and disgusted with the bishop's pig-headed perversity. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Charge it all up, then, to the perversity of a bachelor in the throes of his first, last, and only love experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
"I think when people view these images, they will find not perversity, but something that is beautiful, like a flower.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young And The Tasteless] Reference
With singular perversity, in the midst of reasonable abundance, he forbore to accept the full measure of his privileges. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
It's a perversity that harks back to my childhood ... knowing I shouldn't do something makes me want to do it all the more. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Riffs Interview: Being Bill Watterson -- 'LIO' creator MARK TATULLI shares the secrets of spoofing 'Calvin & Hobbes'] Reference
Then she wondered why the spirit of perversity had possessed Madeline, and induced her to extend to Doctor Vaughan so shabby a welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
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