These perverse movements arrested my attention, they struck me as of a character fearfully familiar.
Only to the very stupid, perverse, or unsympathizing, was he in the slightest degree dangerous.
The reader not having hitherto had any cause to ascribe to Miss Snowe's character the most distant pretensions to perfection, will be scarcely surprised to learn that she felt too perverse to defend herself from any imputation the Parisienne might choose to insinuate and besides, M.
I had a "caractère intraitable," and perverse to a miracle.
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored.
When I say child I use an inappropriate and undescriptive term—a term suggesting any picture rather than that of the demure little person in a mourning frock and white chemisette, that might just have fitted a good-sized doll—perched now on a high chair beside a stand, whereon was her toy work-box of white varnished wood, and holding in her hands a shred of a handkerchief, which she was professing to hem, and at which she bored perseveringly with a needle, that in her fingers seemed almost a ske
A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good tempered or cross.
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction: a look of hatred; unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
" Thus, all that Lucy had effected by her zealous mediation was to fill Tom's mind with the expectation that Maggie's perverse resolve to go into a situation again would presently metamorphose itself, as her resolves were apt to do, into something equally perverse, but entirely different,—a marriage with Philip Wakem.
At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a thing that you know to be wrong.
Even Tertius, that most perverse of men, was always subdued in the long-run: events had been obstinate, but still Rosamond would have said now, as she did before her marriage, that she never gave up what she had set her mind on.
The hard and contemptuous words which had fallen from her husband in his anger had deeply offended that vanity which he had at first called into active enjoyment; and what she regarded as his perverse way of looking at things, kept up a secret repulsion, which made her receive all his tenderness as a poor substitute for the happiness he had failed to give her.
"I have really sometimes been a perverse fellow," he went on, "but I will never again, if I can help it, do or say what you would disapprove.
At this moment she felt angry with the perverse Sir James.
Nay, perverse as it seemed, she doubted whether she might not have felt less, had she been less attended to.
Intractable, contrary, perverse, unpredictable, unemotional and detached.
At the time, Conservative MP Priti Patel called the decision "disgraceful" and "perverse.
Given these features, reliance on market competition to drive this sector is almost sure to lead to perverse results.
Cardinal Elio Sgreccia called it a "controversial, perverse decision to say the least.
In the US, for example, there has always been a debate about the problem of perverse incentives, when buyers of protection can make money from the demise of a company.
