Some kinds of perversity are so bizarre that one despairs of ever understanding them.
An examination of the regulation of participants in the investment management process reveals a certain perversity.
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The alleged accomplice of al-Qaeda rails in vain at the perversity of American justice.
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Even those of us who enjoy perversity in movies may be put off by its skittering, against-the-beat rhythms.
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.
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.
And government-run third-party insurance probably creates more perversity than private insurance.
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Even when the murders of the innocent (and the guilty) are predictable, Mangold brings them off with a surprising wallop or a pleasing dash of perversity.
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.
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.
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.
Such perversity can have unpleasant effects, especially in America.
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.
The film is rescued and enlivened by Browning, who, for all her radiance, grounds her character in an ordinary jauntiness, even when she graduates to the next level of perversity lying, bare and drugged, in a large bed, in a secluded house, and awaiting the attentions of her predators.
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