Example sentences for: perversely

How can you use “perversely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.

  • At the end, following these ranks of erotic, dangerous, comic, elegant, or perversely masculine female footgear, comes the "Sneaker Chic" section.

  • The rest of us will be piqued, shamed, outraged, instructed, and maybe perversely fortified.

  • But everybody was 6 feet tall and slim, very young and very beautiful, and paraded with the same pleasing, well disposed manner and well paced gait through the perversely austere production.

  • Critics call this courtroom thriller about a lawyer (John Travolta) on a crusade against a polluting company "perversely undramatic" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Some say a miscast Travolta fails to convey the finer points of his character's internal struggles.


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