| Today, she is wearing a plain black ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look. |
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| Victory was sweet even if it was fortunate, although perversely other results conspired to push the side back a place in the league table. |
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| The repeated cycle of promised change, frenetic activity, and disappointment may perversely satisfy some in power. |
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| Even useless hacks may come, perversely enough, to be valued for the purity of their uselessness. |
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| We quickly discovered that the TV experience of which we were being so perversely deprived was a bit of a let-down. |
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| Much of his writing is devoted to exposing how such oppositions were also perversely connected. |
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| Isn't it funny how something intended to be cheery can in fact be so perversely irritating? |
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| She is wearing a plain black, ankle-length dress decorated with flowers, perversely projecting a rather saintly look. |
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| The wind might make it more bearable but it perversely increases the burning, smoothing out the power of the sun but taking it deeper. |
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| One begins to wonder perversely whether the artist will soon utterly abase herself before our eyes. |
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| Somewhat perversely, spearfishing is still allowed within the area of the marine reserve, so I don't blame the big fish for being cautious. |
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| For critics for whom 'reason' is always partisan and coercive, such an aspiration must seem perversely self-destructive. |
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| The third novel is hardly a novel at all, though the author perversely insisted on saying it was. |
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| They aren't immigrants who chose to come to the United States but perversely refuse to learn English. |
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| Today, perversely, government is retreating from the limited areas where it has a natural responsibility. |
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| The study suggests that, perversely, implementing guidelines may lead to higher overall direct costs per patient. |
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| In some instances, this was deeply entrenched and perversely affected newer influences. |
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| He makes his body's tortured movements perversely vigorous, strenuously dragging his twisted leg, glaring fiercely, and speaking fast with a hard edge. |
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| This perversely sets a misleading path for tonight's proceedings. |
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| He perversely emphasized the differences rather than the similarities of timbre between instruments and even wrote an elaborate justification of this wrong-headedness. |
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| Spectacles of suffering are perversely part of our entertainment culture. |
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| Increasing the supply of new nurses may turn out to be perversely ineffective if overall numbers grow and nurses perform even more non-nursing tasks. |
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| It lies close to fossil groundwater but perversely the national government decided to devote almost all the fossil water to agriculture rather than to supplying the city. |
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| Amid the many trials of their maiden adulthood, she avers, they feel perversely compelled to refute the proper sovereignty of boomer parents in their lives. |
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| Her every word is righteous, and she never speaks frowardly or perversely. |
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| He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike. |
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| Three ill-assorted actors perversely manage to crash-land attempted poetic flights and turn overheated language into dead prose. |
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| Somehow, perversely, what has happened in this conflict is that refugees who fled the Taliban have safe refuge in Iran. |
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| He is not sitting in heaven, worn out after all that exertion, perversely letting things take their course. |
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| Nor should we tolerate a world in which over 1 million children are, in a perversely literal sense, dying for a glass of water and a toilet. |
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| The rich subsidizers then perversely declare they cannot possibly expand trade with the poor world because of its shameful disrespect for the environment. |
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| One of humanity's biggest capital assets, the web, when perversely used is turned into a weapon by criminals and terrorists. |
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| It must be said that this pre-emptive Iraq war has, perversely, convinced dictators that possessing nuclear weapons is a sort of safe-conduct. |
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| Shared recognition of the reality of mutually assured destruction offered a perversely predictable stability. |
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| Even where there is abundant water, and not too much, men seem to be perversely determined to ruin it. |
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| Might his device, perversely, put people even more at risk of being overweigh or obese? |
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| This perversely makes the NZ dollar very attractive to overseas investors, thus driving the exchange rate up. |
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| Domestic work by children, both paid and performed in conditions of virtual slavery, continues to be a major cause of exploitation and violence and one of the factors that have perversely kept millions of girls out of school. |
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| And yet, perversely, I want to argue that there has never been abetter or more important time to go to law school and to become a lawyer. |
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| It plays, a little perversely, with putting on a hard shell. |
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| How long they can sustain such a perversely Luddite posture remains to be seen. |
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| But Cameron appears to suggest we can impose a much wider assimilation with British values and the danger is that this approach will perversely entrench those separate identities that he wants to meld. |
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| So Ms Vega must, perversely, hire a babysitter while she is working. |
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| The other is, of course, the determination of the SNP to break the union, although perversely to remain as a minor province of the proposed European republic envisaged by the unelected authorities in Brussels. |
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| The present CFP perversely incentivises the immoral and unsustainable practice of discarding accidental by-catch and juveniles, as it is illegal to land them. |
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| This lack of moral responsibility is perversely able to involve people in a labyrinthine quest for their exact legal position and subject them to phantom judgements regarding unknown crimes. |
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| Moreover, if such actions suppress employment opportunities open to children, they may perversely cause more children to work, because many children support the schooling of their siblings. |
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| Like Richard III, but without that character's perversely appealing exuberance, Macbeth wades through blood until his inevitable fall. |
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| But these confabulated, sockdologizing tins refuse to warm up. I swear they are doing it to perversely annoy me. |
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| I found myself wondering perversely whether Ross was the whipper or the whippee. Or maybe they took turns. |
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| It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in. |
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| So, perversely, instead of helping our winners to grow at home so they can win in the wider world, we make them easy meat for predators from outside. |
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| Translated from academese, this meant that America's very success in building homes now perversely encouraged family breakup through separation and divorce. |
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| We walk perversely with God, and he will walk crookedly toward us. |
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| Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion. |
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| Perversely this album recalls neither the studied club groove nor the agreeably dark pop embraced by its predecessor, and consequentially sounds strangely more accessible. |
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