| As I stood in the middle of the squalid Kara Tepe transit camp on Lesbos, I was struck by the utter perverseness of the refugee drama unfolding on this Greek island. |
| Such Delphic obscurity was not inspired by mere perverseness. |
| The blatantness of its rhetorical devices and the perverseness of its address create discomfort for serious theorists. |
| And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of perverseness. |
| The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. |
| This is partly because he is compassionate about the suffering of ordinary Europeans, but also exasperated by their masochism and perverseness. |
