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Some kinds of perversity are so bizarre that one despairs of ever understanding them.
NEWYORKER: Double Lives
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An examination of the regulation of participants in the investment management process reveals a certain perversity.
FORBES: Investment Consultants: It's Time to Clearly Define Their Role (June 1, 1995)
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Even those of us who enjoy perversity in movies may be put off by its skittering, against-the-beat rhythms.
NEWYORKER: Punch-Drunk Love
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It's that peculiar French perversity that all of us who have our home here grow to know as l'exception francaise - the French exception.
BBC: Part Three - France and the World
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In the heady days before its default, when Argentina accounted for 23.3% of the index on average, the perversity of this incentive was manifest.
ECONOMIST: Argentina's debt restructuring
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And government-run third-party insurance probably creates more perversity than private insurance.
FORBES: Eduard Porter Scribbles Non Sequiturs To Incorrectly Denigrate Profits
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Mysteriously, however, and to a degree that truly suggests perversity, Mr. Soderbergh seems to have done everything within his power to keep the audience at arm's length.
WSJ: Film Review
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The plot, steeped in evil and perversity, pays frequent homage to Hitchcock and Brian De Palma, while the cinematography, by Chung-hoon Chung, summons up visions out of David Lynch.
WSJ: Film Reviews: 'Stoker': Fuel but No Fire
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The bursting of the commodities and housing bubbles would not have threatened the very existence of our financial system had it not been for the perversity of mark-to-market accounting rules.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Such perversity can have unpleasant effects, especially in America.
ECONOMIST: Banking regulation
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To paraphrase the words of Winston Churchill, who is seen in newsreel footage of the Potsdam Peace Conference in "The Good German, " Steven Soderbergh's new film is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery inside a perversity.
WSJ: Film Review