Example Sentences

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They were not civilized intellectuals “milking on their own perversities and brutalities.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2022

The story of Modigliani’s agonies gives rise to Becker’s own cri de coeur regarding the practical and commercial perversities that are inflicted upon artists.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2018

Doing so would help tackle one of the perversities of the illegal timber trade: An abundance of stolen timber depresses prices, slashes margins and can deter investing in better due diligence of their wood supplies.

From Reuters • Aug. 19, 2012

Instead, the school seems to be benefitting from many of legal education’s assorted perversities.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2011

As a journalist she had strange perversities and profundities.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May