There’s perverse glee to be indulged in watching the villainous Mother’s cruel, selfish, scrupulously arranged life degrade to the point where a long, viscous string of snot dangles tantalizingly from her nostril.
Source: Decider
The joke only grows more perverse when we see what Portia categorizes as “cute things,” like a stretchy blue tube top and matching pair of bellbottoms she wears on a date with Leo.
Source: PlayOverwatch
Throughout his book, Desmond reveals how governmental programs, landlords and the grueling continuous search to find safe and affordable housing ensnares already vulnerable populations in a perverse cycle, where evicted families increasingly pay a greater share of their income for rent, making it nearly impossible to escape poverty.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
So we are either entering into our darkest night, if we’re continually trapped by perverse incentives, or our most golden era.
Source: TIME
Taking a perverse but knowing glee in the on-screen carnage it forces you to unleash as an escaped Carcer City inmate, Manhunt is truly repellent.
Source: Gamesradar
Another reporter began his query by suggesting that many find Lynch to be a perverse filmmaker, and followed up by asking him if he agreed.
Source: WWMT-TV
Actually designing statutes that avoid perverse market incentives can be hard, but if those drafting the laws are made aware of the pitfalls, they can avoid some of the worst possibilities.
Source: Bloomberg Law
The perverse joy of watching films vicariously through the eyes of others is intoxicating.
Source: GlobalComment.com
Why has this become the predominant trend in comedy shows now, to have dialogue which, rather than fizzing and crackling like an exposed electric wire, instead stammers and stutters like the spluttering engine of a rusty old hatchback?
Spreadsheet’s biggest failing is that it’s written exactly like the worst sort of show of its time by continuing a worrying trend of having a genuine and perverse aversion to telling jokes.
Source: Cultured Vultures
And yet here is the Biden administration once again pushing us in the wrong direction, with the most perverse incentives, to virtually guarantee American decline.
Source: Fox Business
I don't know who told these corporations it's ok to teach perverse sexuality to little children but we will end it.
Source: Newsweek
Sectors such as social care and pensions need secure funding mechanisms for public providers, and better regulation and dismantling of perverse financial incentives for private providers4.
Source: Nature.com
In fact, its minimalistic approach feels semi-perverse in the way the viewer is given a front-row seat into the lives of two individuals at a breaking point.
Source: Asian Movie Pulse
She told Esquire in 2013: 'Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of Married with Children, which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.
Source: Daily Mail
That could hold a perverse lesson, because Steve Ehrlich’s relatively restrained personal style was seemingly outperformed by Mashinsky, Kwon and Su’s Donald Trump-like declarations and belittling of critics.
Source: CoinDesk
It would be perverse to think that Indigenous people, over-cluttered with data, encumbered by facts, are missing out on some sort of spiritual clarity.
Source: Aeon
Dominic’s brute of a policeman father, Peadar (Gary Lydon), is oppressive in public as well as vicious and perverse to his son behind closed doors.
Source: Moviejawn
At first, I was content to enjoy “Renaissance” once a week while taking in the perverse frescoes of The White Lotus’ opening credits.
Source: The Cut
With last year’s proposal for the revision of the renewable Energy Directive, the Commission is trying to create a framework with some rules that will at least prevent perverse financial incentives for burning of such forest biomass whose quality would justify its use elsewhere.
Source: EURACTIV
“Your ban on mobilization messaging has a perverse effect on Democracy.
Source: The Washington Post
"It goes deeper this time, into the psycho-sexual, body-horror, why what some people see as perverse or fetishistic, can also be perfectly normal," says Swank.
Source: bravewords.com
“Infinity Pool” / Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Brandon Cronenberg, Producers: Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Christian Piovesan, Noah Segal, Rob Cotterill, Anita Juka) — James and Em are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.
Source: IndieWire
In the perverse world of jazz, where struggle and early death are lionized, oftentimes the more popularity, the less credit.
Source: Andscape
The Agency is celebrating its 75th anniversary and no doubt secretly doing victory laps and pole-dance salutes to its own perverse subversions.
Source: Hooray! CounterPunch.org CounterPunch
A still from Infinity Pool by Brandon Cronenberg
Infinity Pool / Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Brandon Cronenberg, Producers: Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Christian Piovesan, Noah Segal, Rob Cotterill, Anita Juka) — James and Em are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.
Source: Deadline
In a slightly perverse way, Musk is the “buddha” who has attained the unattainable, that which his followers have no chance of living up to.
Source: Buddhistdoor Global Buddhistdoor Global
So it’s with perverse glee that we sit down to watch Crimes of the Future, which promises to make our stomachs churn.
Source: Screen Rant
This can have perverse impacts on consumers.
Source: The Guardian
Crumb, who grew up in a troubled family, with a drug-addicted mother who threatened her children with enemas if they misbehaved, was even more outrageous and perverse than the comics his new girlfriend was beginning to publish.
Source: The Washington Post
Takashi Miike is a genuine gonzo visionary whose work is as wild and perverse as it is diverse.
Source: The Daily Beast
They fear perverse consequences, including wasted money, missing out on what most needs protecting, and causing counterproductive conflicts with Indigenous and local communities.
Source: Yale Environment 360
But there's no moment in all of "Severance" that better sums up the show's twisted appeal, nor its unique, perverse takedown of worker drone life.
Source: /Film
His study also found that the tax credit creates a perverse incentive: It’s so lucrative that it could enable hydrogen companies to outcompete other buyers of renewable energy.
Source: Grist
Kristen Stewart costars as an investigator with the National Organ Registry who develops a perverse attraction to Mortensen and his “art.
Source: The A.V. Club
Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool, starring Alexander Skarsgard and Mia Goth, follows a couple on an "all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors," according to a synopsis.
Source: PEOPLE
Part of this movie’s power comes from its insistence that you look at the near-unbearable, that you confront slavery as a crime against humanity rather than the perverse myth of the so-called Lost Cause enshrined in countless paintings, books, films and statues.
Source: IGN First IGN
Infinity Pool / Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Brandon Cronenberg, Producers: Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Christian Piovesan, Noah Segal, Rob Cotterill, Anita Juka) — James and Em are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.
Source: LRM Online
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This year I've spent approximately £40 on Playstation down from over regularly spending £300+ on games and even more on hardware like PSVR and controllers, all due to their policy of putting games on PC and their perverse fascination with still making last gen games.
Source: Push Square
The Netflix series Chef’s Table is a psychologically probing celebration of the kind of perverse personality required to turn food into an art form.
Source: The Atlantic
“In a perverse way, it gave me a new life.
Source: The New York Times
Infinity Pool / Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Brandon Cronenberg, Producers: Karen Harnisch, Andrew Cividino, Christian Piovesan, Noah Segal, Rob Cotterill, Anita Juka) — James and Em are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence, and surreal horrors.
Source: FilmBook
He considers Plato’s efforts with the tyrants of Syracuse, Aristotle’s influence on Alexander the Great and Seneca’s failures with the perverse Nero before going on to more general reflections on character and power.
Source: The Washington Post
“This perverse war in Ukraine has two facets,” says Boțan.
Source: The Guardian
No one crafts equally perverse and philosophical slices of prog metal quite like Tool.
Source: Consequence
For news organisations thirsty for attention, this seemed like a perverse strategy.
Source: The Guardian
Its perverse angles and non-Euclidean geometries were designed with a singular foul purpose in mind: to open doorways into a terrible and fascinating dimension called The Wyrd.
Source: Gematsu
And in a perverse way, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner helped affirm for many white conservatives that casting a vote for him showed a lack of racial prejudice on their part.
Source: Governing
How did you initially imagine the installation?
I’m a bit of a perverse designer.
Source: The Cut
It also warped his being in the game’s image, and around the gnarled values and perverse incentives that make up its culture.
Source: Defector
Josée Yvon, Danseuses-Mamelouk
(Les Herbes Rouges)
Yet to be translated in English, Josée Yvon is the perverse fairy godmother of every queer writer in Quebec.
Source: Literary Hub
Interventions will include expansion and improved management of protected areas, eliminating perverse incentives and creating an enabling policy environment, incentives to mobilize additional finance and investment in conservation and sustainable use of forests, knowledge sharing and capacity building, and communications to raise awareness of the important contributions these forests make to both local and global communities.
Source: IUCN
In failing to accept their sons for who they are and not who they wish them to be, all the fathers in "Pinocchio" partake in its perverse dynamic of control: Podesta (Ron Perlman), a government official raising his kid, Candlewick (Finn Wolfhard), with strict discipline; the villainous puppeteer Count Volpe (Christoph Waltz) and his mistreatment of his baboon sidekick Spazzatura (Cate Blanchett); and even a cleverly ridiculed Mussolini (Tom Kenny), as a father figure for an entire nation.
Source: Roger Ebert
“Christmas on the Rocks” — as sweet as a candy cane and as spiky as the Christmas tree it hangs on — has been spreading its own perverse form of holiday cheer since 2013.
Source: Hartford Courant
archives to mash up the eras of the hero in one perverse but surprisingly emotional stew.
Source: Vulture
Vodnik has been limited to fewer than 70 combined innings over the last two seasons, but that may work in his favor in a perverse sense, given that it's easier to keep a player who'll require a stint or two on the injured list.
Source: CBS Sports
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