Together, the two lawyers plough into a field of perversity.
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By the standards of "Nocturama," such perversity counts as love.
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Yet Shiv has a slovenly, impulsive perversity of her own.
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But both elegance and perversity get redefined as eras evolve.
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Ingenuity, honesty, perversity, bravery and — I must admit — natural talent.
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Between Heaven and Hell gently unfolds the inner workings of Ribera's strategic perversity.
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Despite its obvious perversity, the play has been ritualized to the point of normalcy.
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The decision to combine bloody-minded perversity with a torpid tempo is certainly daring.
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The perversity of human frailty is at the root of this loss, not failure.
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Then, on top of being sisters, there's this projected weirdness and this underlying perversity.
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The sheer perversity of this move will be hard for many readers to swallow.
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For Milo Rau, making his American stage directing debut, the perversity is the point.
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Reminiscent of Ferrante, too, are Jin's protagonist's larger-than-life talent, drive and perversity.
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But it's hard to hold a grudge in the face of L'Heureux's charming perversity.
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"That's the perversity of this loophole that really needs to be underscored," she added.
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Svenonius' mix of perversity and class consciousness always needles and excites and, yes, even incites.
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The perversity barely registers, not because it isn't perverse but because it is so familiar.
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Most frustratingly, the adaptation abandons the raw feminine perversity that made Jackson's story so indelible.
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Why is it difficult for this particular narrator to overstate the perversity of the choice?
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The perversity begins with the fact that "Notes on an Appearance" primarily concerns a disappearance.
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Ms. Mutu's sense of improvisation, creepiness and perversity re-emerges when her imagination exceeds realism.
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But chastity has its lighter side, the look sometimes embraced in a spirit of campy perversity.
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Impossible to pin down, Leigh Bowery was a monument to his own great, self-willed perversity.
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US fossil fuel companies and utilities are basically gambling on the continued perversity of US energy policy.
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McCormack is the willful and wayward Lila Cerullo, a person of infinite intelligence and perversity to match.
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In spite of his veneer of lifelong hat-tipping, Tiepolo was also a delightful, wayward, wily perversity.
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Some scenes in this film, directed by Jon Kauffman, put across the perversity of prison social ecosystems.
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The viewers suffered along with him, through excruciating events that seemed drawn out to the point of perversity.
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Brenner's allegations of copyright infringement stem from a screenplay she wrote titled Luv & Perversity in the East Village.
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Last but by no means least, the true perversity of trade war is that it's genuinely lose-lose.
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Of course, it is important that the church investigate what in its culture gives rise to such perversity.
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This album abounds with pretty sonic details, but the notion of barely audible oceanic vastness smacks of perversity.
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Instead of the raucous den of perversity I imagined, I felt free for the first time in my life.
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Plus, we use sexuality for mass media and perversity in marketing, and we have for a very long time.
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There may be no artist in America better equipped to express the perversity of the Trump administration than Bernstein.
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It was a perversity on the part of the prison: They wouldn't allow anything to grow freely, including weeds.
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However, inertia and policy perversity block this in both energy and carbon removal, the former making the latter problematic.
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But neither that series nor much else that's followed it have achieved anything like the shameless perversity of Cruel Intentions.
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And if you're worried the film won't meet your standards of perversity, rest assured there's a deeply upsetting incest reveal.
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There's a spot for perversity and transgression that certain moviegoers have, and Mr. De Palma knew how to hit it.
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Now Ms. Molloy enters the ring, exploring rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating acuity.
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The structural ingenuity, psychological perversity and visual bravura that characterize Mr. De Palma's films can all plausibly be called Hitchcockian.
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The overall effect is like that of a giant Surrealistic collage, a crazy quilt of superstition, paranoia, perversity and idiocy.
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Its alt-jazziness in full swing, "ribface" shows that you shouldn't have to sacrifice perversity for the sake of professionalism.
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In an ever more casual era, there is a refreshing perversity to the posh — and a poshness to the perverse.
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" Or the scholar-critic Charles Chassé: "The poet brings in an almost sadistic perversity to propel us onto false tracks.
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In The Favourite, the pomp and perversity of Queen Anne's fictionalized court registers through a historic typeface manipulated in surprising ways.
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Because they want to change the world, not just delight in its perversity, many of these economists engage closely with policy.
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The Geneva court cited the "unbearable severity" and perversity of his acts against the woman he had met at a spa.
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But again, the citizens of Detroit — or black people in general — are not the intended audience for this pageant of perversity.
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But so great are our greed, anger, perversity and conceit that we are filled with all forms of malice and cunning.
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Across his entire body of work, Beckmann matches perversity with tenderness, detachment with intimacy, angst and darkness with celebration and rich color.
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Others seem like acts of willful perversity, as with a mid-film game of one-on-one between Erick and a rival.
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But it is through the easily ignored, diamond-patterned window in the background that this odd vignette doubles down on its perversity.
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Chill out music, and "chilling out" as an activity, has always been (rightly) viewed with a suspicion that borders on downright perversity.
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The ultimate perversity is that their inability to imagine a future will not enable them to return to the pre-crisis situation.
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A drawing titled "The Idol of Perversity" offers a narrow-eyed Medusa-like woman with a snake writhing out of her breasts.
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The perversity of a virulent pandemic is that the affected hosts propagate the disease, accelerating the demise of members of their own species.
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Ours is grounded in the compelling perversity that the cuisine, climate and class structure of Scotland can produce a tennis champion like Murray.
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But here's the bizarre quirk of the Facebook dystopia, whose sheer perversity would have likely pleased Orwell: It's all Big and no Brother.
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Its pensions remain among the euro area's most generous, a perversity given the disproportionate economic pain borne by young Italians over the past decade.
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In late medieval thought, against a backdrop of punitive intolerance, two powerful arguments emerged against enforcing orthodoxy of belief or manners: ignorance and perversity.
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"Bridge Over Mud" resists inviting the audience in and refuses — with a kind of perversity that is actually sort of admirable — to become interesting.
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" Based on the publisher's description, this was the register of perversity, brutal and frank, I was expecting from Eliza Robertson's debut novel, "Demi-Gods.
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Languid and lubricious this may be, but the director understands that, for perversity to flourish, it must roam beyond the limits of the boudoir.
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So while we get multiple passing references to the prison-industrial complex being the present-day instantiation of Morris's perversity, these then lie inert.
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Watching these early episodes now is a great reminder of how low-grade perversity is and has basically always been a cornerstone of children's television.
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Saini Kallat's perversity has its own complexities and they are visible, albeit in a restrained way, as a snide undercurrent in works like "Synapse" (2011).
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In the film, NYU historian Joe Jeffreys describes Wood as "an obscenity wrapped in a perversity," linking her to Divine, Leigh Bowery, and GG Allin.
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You need to know more, although maybe you'd rather not, given Ramsay's flair for ushering her characters into the dread realms of perversity and pain.
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But the patriarch, Arquímedes Puccio, played with regal sang-froid and deadpan perversity by Guillermo Francella, is also a study in the evil of banality.
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The first is a twisted tale of Los Angeles, of water, power and sexual perversity, and I hope not a metaphor for Madison Square Garden.
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Excited but also imperturbable, Blocboy raps on behalf of all those who decline open hedonism for the perversity of finding joy in coldness and abstraction.
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They are familiar tales and yet utterly distinctive from one another, with startling details that suggest the perversity of flailing souls who misread their own intentions.
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Saini Kallat's perversity is gentle, subtle, and transient, functioning in a different tenor from the erotic, polymorphous, and disorienting hybridity of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, for instance.
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Created by Gilbert Hernandez (of Love and Rockets fame alongside his brothers Jaime and Mario), this comic takes sexual perversity and sets it in a barren wasteland.
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Like Ibsen's doomed Hedda, Susan was perceived as a figure of fascinating and fatal perversity, a woman of wildly heroic longings amid oppressive and insular small-mindedness.
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But a new one that has popped up in recent years might be the most irksome of all due to its sheer perversity: fees for leaving bad reviews.
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If there's any way to escape this double bind and establish some agency, it may be to approach womanhood like Flynn does, as just another perversity among many.
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At midmorning — time flies here — I eye a bona fide cherry tree with a newfound perversity that recalls Warhol himself; I go nuts and ax it to bits.
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Even a clear perversity — like the surprise medical bills patients can face for out-of-network care — is hard to fix because it would cut payments to providers.
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In Watts' case, the uncovering of a kind of kinky and hidden gay sex life was meant to prove that perversity, activating the phobic trope of the queer killer.
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This inversion of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged with the most powerful and privileged is a perversity of the political imagination that I find typical of the contemporary moment.
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But the distinctive perversity of the author it riffs upon ultimately eludes the talented creators of this hourlong production, which opened on Monday night at the Fourth Street Theater.
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In the perversity of this atmosphere, Democrats seem to be sensing a moment of bipartisan opportunity – a kind of backdoor unity campaign that could bring mainstream Republicans into their camp.
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She writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of circumstance and identity, not to mention the perversity of being buried alive, alone, inside a body.
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It's easy to forgive James for keeping to a pace as ruminative and slow as the age he lived in; with Banville, it feels willful to the point of perversity.
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Streaming The work of Catherine Breillat, the French filmmaker and novelist whose movies frequently explore the perversity animating male-female power dynamics in Western society, has always been fearlessly pertinent.
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There's a queer element to this otherwise hetero man–woman coupling: Besides the more obvious Father/Child of God thing, there's the sheer forbidness of it all — the naughtiness, the perversity.
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Over the past several years, a wave of feminist sex tech companies has revolutionized the male-dominated industry by redefining toys as part of sexual health rather than an illicit perversity.
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Or even followable; despite its generous running time and exhausting exposition, in which characters tell each other things they would already know, the play is mysterious to the point of perversity.
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Mr. Trump's claims are part of a pattern of willful deception and distortion that threatens to become normalized unless the press fulfills its obligation to repeatedly call attention to such perversity.
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The perversity of the current situation is that Trump has always publicly maintained that he wants to do something to help the DREAMers — repeatedly using the word "love" in this context.
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The story of a creative genius, able to absorb the strangeness of nature (and the beauty and perversity of human nature), to create spectacular, otherworldly, and sometimes miraculous works of fashion-art.
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"It's a perversity that when you see something changing you think it's just a flash or a temporary moment," he said in a 2008 interview, according to the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International.
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Like the 1986 film of the same name that starred Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, "About Last Night" was inspired by a play written by David Mamet titled "Sexual Perversity in Chicago."
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" Some take it for perversity, a trait that has marked her since she appeared onscreen in the early 2000s as the self-mutilating, sadomasochistic antiheroine of the erotic thriller "The Piano Teacher.
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The symbolic complexity that the piece unfolds to the audience through a sensorial dispositive is key to understanding the artist's persistent critique to totalitarian thinking and the perversity of its attack against subjectivity.
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Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 20th century, it follows a love story (of sorts) between an heiress and her new maid, one that unfolds with both subtlety and outright perversity.
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Soon local bands spotted his postings and asked him to make music videos, charmed by the way the low-tech look of his cartoons heightened the perversity of his adult-only psychosexual dramas.
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Porter is so famous for his gifts as a lyricist that it might seem mischievous to the point of perversity to suggest that his real greatness resides in his skills as a composer.
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There may be no artist in America better equipped to express the perversity of the Trump administration than Bernstein — as a record of its horrors, her images belong in the next generation's history books.
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Imagine the classic corporate suit and tie spliced with the style of a World War II Women's Army Corps member, and topped by a dash of Helmut Newton perversity, and you'll get the idea.
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From Dery's descriptions, these shows, few of which ever made it off the Cape, were as strange as anything in the Gorey oeuvre, and proof of the strong streak of perversity that never deserted him.
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Two of Jean Delville's works would make excellent album covers, and in fact, "Idol of Perversity" (1891), a meticulously rendered drawing in graphite on paper of a semi-nude woman crowned with snakes, already has.
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To recast those medieval arguments for toleration from ignorance and perversity in democratic terms: a public divided in its moral opinions cannot guide the state reliably; and, as experience suggests, policing morality tends to invite lawbreaking.
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The danger with a conceptual work that concerns itself with the perversity of corporatism and late-late capitalism is that at some point you actually do need to engage with those things in order to eat.
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The Journal eventually published a hundred and twenty-nine articles, the first of which acknowledged the perversity of the project: It may seem absurd to speak of Trumpism when Trump himself does not speak of Trumpism.
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Above all, we get confirmation of the director's preëminent perversity: patient and elaborate in his racking up of tension, he knows only one way to resolve it, and that is through carnage, displayed in unmerciful detail.
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" On the multitudes embodied by the color black, favored by ninjas, nuns, fascists and fashionistas alike, they write "[Black is] the color of abjection and of arrogance, of piety and of perversity, of restraint and of rebelliousness.
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In this provocative and wince-inducing shocker, the director David Guy Levy and the screenwriter Steffen Schlachtenhaufen expose the perversity of the American class system, which allows the decadent rich to buy the complicity of the needy.
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But Wilson also pointed out that in Housman's choice of Manilius there seems an element of perversity and self-mortification, and that his scholarship sometimes radiated not so much love for literature as hatred for his rivals.
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A middle-aged man named Leo, who has recently suffered a stroke, feels helpless to control his own frail body, much less his two sons, who have been bullying a neighborhood boy, with growing cruelty and perversity.
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Devotion to dogma and sheer perversity erodes their fellowship as day turns into night — after which "Clash" turns into a full-fledged horror movie, albeit one without the fake comfort of a supernatural or science-fiction pretext.
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There's a curious perversity that rears its head early in the film during a startlingly grisly shower scene and throughout, there's a shocking willingness to go to the very edge of what's acceptable in a contemporary studio movie.
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The 46-year-old actor, who played Chandler Bing in "Friends", leads the dark comedy's cast and is reunited with director Lindsay Posner, who he worked with in the 2003 West End production of "Sexual Perversity in Chicago".
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An important, yet little understood reason for raising the size limit is the perverse effect of the present limit, a perversity that has stimulated mergers among relatively large banks, thereby unintentionally increasing banking concentration in the U.S. economy.
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It's also a brilliantly told, deeply moving story about love — in all its manifestations, perversity and obstinacy — one that starts to take shape when Beanpole's friend Masha (a fantastic Vasilisa Perelygina) returns to Leningrad, medals pinned to her uniform.
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Like the Tatums' statement, which began with the almost endearingly honest line, "First off, it feels off that we have to share this thing with everyone," Theroux and Aniston addressed the perversity of having to publish a statement at all.
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"Jo should have remained a literary spinster," Alcott wrote to a friend, but she felt so pressured to satisfy expectations that "I didn't dare refuse & out of perversity went & made a funny match for her," with an older German professor.
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"This kind of thing happens with some regularity, and the perversity of it is that the more cables we add, the more cables there are to be snagged or broken," says Roland Dobbins, principal engineer at the network security firm Netscout.
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So even though this week was calm by American mass shooting standards, we can and should continue to be aware of these tragedies and the perversity of a gun culture gone off the rails—even as we pay due respect to European suffering.
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If you lack a taste for such hokum, "Greta" is still worth seeing, for the sake of Isabelle Huppert: an A-grade performer, by any standard, as shown in the rigors of " The Piano Teacher " (2001) and the vengeful perversity of " Elle " (2016).
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For one thing, I don't think Alcott even really wanted us to — in a now-famous letter to a friend, she called Bhaer "a funny match" she came up with "out of perversity" in the face of readers' demands that Jo marry someone.
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Toward the end of the book, modern concepts like polymorphous perversity and homosexual panic drive the behavior of some characters, and this seems both artificial and unnecessary except as a too-obvious plot device to force Quevedo and Caravaggio onto the same tennis court.
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The perversity of Solness's mind (and of the strange play he inhabits) is given sensory life by Rob Howell's set, which suggests a charred-wood blueprint out of nightmares; Hugh Vanstone's lighting; and a score by Gary Yershon that is the sound of megalomania.
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But the magnitude of the lies that House Republicans had to tell to pass the AHCA is a direct outgrowth of the perversity of the plan, and the deception will become abundantly clear if Republicans ever find themselves in the unenviable position of implementing it.
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Despite the hedonistic perversity and orgiastic corporate-ness of it all, every year Coachella parties make my spirit climax, as no other gathering place fulfills my deepest desires to live in a free, conscious, and hyper-branded universe—an ephemeral paradise built to withstand the wild.
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A current show at Sperone Westwater of some of his last works, with a few early gems thrown in, won't exalt his reputation, but its antic perversity—with flatly painted, surreal tableaux, wizardly in composition, of toy medieval knights on fabric-armored horses—is well worth witnessing.
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Mr. Goggins takes his slightly surreal intensity — simultaneously feral and blissed-out — and applies it to a kind of wacko different from what he's played before, a possibly closeted, smooth-talking dandy (his plaid bow ties deserve their own credit) with deep reserves of rage and perversity.
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Over oozing guitar leads, Brown's able to turn the record's whole theme into a sing-songy chorus, underlining, perhaps the absurdity of the whole exercise, the perversity of reveling in hopelessness, the understanding of how little such personal apocalypsis actually matters in the face of structural evil.
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They make you forget — until you go inside — the perversity of Wright's idea of building a house over a waterfall that can't be seen from inside it, but only heard: a dull continuous roar that, in spring-melt time, must have rendered life in Fallingwater nearly insufferable.
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Books of The Times The dainty slippers pictured on the cover of "Women's Work" may have been a marketing ploy on the part of the publisher, but the image is so precious, so trite and so likely to backfire that it deserves extra points for sheer perversity.
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Westworld On the second episode of the first season of "Westworld," Lee Sizemore introduced a new narrative called "Odyssey on Red River," which he described as the "apex" of what Westworld could be, an amplification of the Wild West perversity and ultraviolence that the guests loved.
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After all, the perversity of our current coexistence with technology doesn't exactly stem from enslaving bots to do our dirty work but emerges from patriarchal efforts to humanize them, as exemplified by Siri and Alexa, technologies that reveal that the ideal subservient figure is still a woman.
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Even in Segers' early work, there is a sense of perversity, not with the Modernist goal to épater la bourgeoisie, but in a kind of damn-it-all, Mr. Toad behind-the-wheel sort of way, boop-booping and careering down the road for the sheer pleasure of it.
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The reason Hill was eviscerated and a lying Clarence Thomas ascended to the Supreme Court is that Biden, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was bending over backward to appease uncompromising Republicans on the panel — the same men who were falsely accusing Hill of perversity, erotomania and perjury.
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Its energy, perversity, and taste for big, percussive, tangible textures distinguish it from innumerable contemporary classical chefs-d'oeuvre and/or adventures into laptoptronica, and its taste for melodies that like to hide behind big iron sculptures, revealing themselves only to repeat listeners, ensures that you'll keep coming back for more.
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Schumer's act lasts an hour and twenty minutes, which gives you a lot of time to think about the limits of perversity, and how, at times, the comic has to circumnavigate her own intelligence in order to make the character "Amy Schumer," self-described "trash from Long Island," come to life.
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And that is a much tougher sell, both because the evidence is far thinner (the closest thing to a smoking gun is Hillary calling Lewinsky a "narcissistic looney-toon" … in a private conversation with a friend) and because of the inherent perversity of blaming a wife for her husband's crimes.
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This line of thinking recasts genetic modification as the ultimate perversion, the bio-industry as a fetish gone wild, and Ecosexual Bathhouse is ultimately a provocation to reframe our perspective on the biosphere, to rethink the social and psychological boundaries between sex and ecology by acknowledging the perversity of our current situation.
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I love, and have always loved, Little Women because of its perversity, because of the way its characters often work against their own best interests (Meg marries the worst man of all time basically to stick it to old Aunt March), and because of its anger and eroticism (consider the sausage pillow!).
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Everything that follows is, in some ways, even more shocking, as the movie — a masterpiece of suave perversity, directed by Paul Verhoeven — leads its audience through a meticulously constructed maze of ambiguity, scrambling our assumptions and expectations at every turn, dispensing discomfort and delight and daring us to distinguish one from the other.
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The data cited in this week's Times report underlines the perversity: not only could Medicaid work requirements hurt working people, but Medicaid expansion alone — opposed by the Trump administration and Republican state officials, leaving more than 1 million people in non-expansion states without coverage — might actually do a better job than a work requirement.
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" Throughout the book, La Melia puns on the (eye)lash as a whip (one section, for instance, is titled "8 Lashes of Baby's Breath") and calls attention to its eroticism in lines like: "Is the Eyelash all I need to draw to make a perversity?" and "The lower baby-doll Eyelashes are very, very innocent.
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Even in his early work, where his subjects are more ordinary, there is a sense of perversity, not with the Modernist goal to épater la bourgeoisie, but in a kind of damn-it-all, Mr. Toad behind-the-wheel sort of way, boop-booping and careering down the road for the sheer pleasure of it.
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Taken with the requisite grain of salt (this was commissioned by call analytics company) this seems fairly remarkable, given how used to enduring these shitty systems we ought to have become by now—automated call centers have been around for decades, even if they've only more recently reached the heights of mega-perversity we see today.
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As is known to fans of the comics, which were published between 1995 and 2000 by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, there is plenty of perversity, violence and potential blasphemy to come: stories about the incestuous continuation of the bloodline of Jesus; a Ku Klux Klansman with a sexual attraction to meat; and a confrontation with God himself.
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It would benefit East Coast refineries that have to rely on foreign crude oil instead of domestic crude from shale that is cheaper to ship to the western coast of Canada than to eastern coast of the U.S. A study by the Mercatus Center documented the perversity on the Jones Act and made a strong case for repeal.
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They are, by and large, horror stories, and what makes them horrifying is not that they make our dystopian imaginings plausible, but that they show us how real they have become: that the social contract has dissolved, venality and perversity have won, and all the effort we've made to see ourselves clearly might not save us after all.
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A recent New York Magazine feature dubbed Pornhub, a top porn site, "the Kinsey Report of our time," arguing that the breadth of perversity found on the site encourages increasingly exotic sexual exploration among its presumably vanilla viewers; other commentators, including Cindy Gallop, founder of the website MakeLoveNotPorn, have also expounded upon the power pornography holds over our sexual tastes and behaviors.
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Foxx, delivering one of the finest performances of his career in a role that involves as dramatic a physical transformation as his Oscar-winning turn in "Ray," is joined by an equally impressive supporting cast, which includes O'Shea Jackson, Jr., Darrell Britt-Gibson and Rob Morgan, who brings enormous sympathy to a prisoner whose extenuating circumstances throw the perversity of the death penalty into heartbreaking relief.
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Yet Portnoy's Complaint is one of Roth's minor works, a quick read that dealt with the perversity of sexual desire but merely touched on the other themes—the tension between art and life, the competing claims of family and individual freedom, the fate of Jewish identity in the American melting pot—that are the backbone of Roth's truly great books: Zuckerman Bound (19913), The Counterlife (1986), and, above all, Sabbath's Theater (1995).
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"My concern is that what Trump did is that it was the worst possible timing to empower hardliners in that transition who can now say, 'See, we can't count on the US.'" And despite reportedly having a love for American rock and roll music, Díaz-Canel has increasingly shown himself to be a hardliner when dealing with the US. "Sometimes it's inexplicable that a country so big, so powerful, has dedicated so much time, resources, evil and perversity to destroying the revolutionary process," Díaz-Canel said in 2017, as he attended the opening of a museum in Havana showcasing the CIA's plots against the Cuban government.
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