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1. them, but the perversity of the
2. M: The causes of perversity are also natural — heredity, envi-
3. What is this perversity? An abattoir? A meat storage room? A torture chamber? Out of all the species on the planet, only humans breed other animals—innocent sentient beings—specifically to enslave them, torture them, use them, abuse them, mutilate them, experiment on them, butcher them, and eat them
4. The Hebrew word used in the Old Testament is avon which is variously translated as depravity, perversity or iniquity Literally it means crooked
5. It was covered with strangely pointed leaves and crimson blossoms—not the satiny red of natural petals, but a livid, unnatural crimson, like a perversity of flower- life
6. 3 Thus ended a day of tragedy and sorrow for a vast universe whose myriads of intelligences had shuddered at the shocking spectacle of the crucifixion of the human incarnation of their beloved Sovereign; they were stunned by this exhibition of mortal callousness and human perversity
7. In fact, if a person takes the benefit of their power of thought, they will be able to keep their actions under control and will be prevented from falling into error, aberration or perversity
8. Lucy would have been immensely taken aback, and perhaps, such is one's perversity, even hurt, if she could have seen the ray of hope which at this thought lit her Aunt Dot's exhausted mind; for Miss Entwhistle's life, which had been a particularly ordered and calm one up to the day when Wemyss first called at Eaton Terrace, had since then been nothing but just confused clamour
9. The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love
10. Inclination as well as perversity made the decision easy, and being already much excited, Meg opposed the old lady with unusual spirit
11. This about not loving her, physically, bodily, was a mere perversity on his part, because he knew she loved him
12. Catherine, by instinct, must have divined it was obdurate perversity, and not dislike, that prompted this dogged conduct; for, after remaining an instant undecided, she stooped and impressed on his cheek a gentle kiss
13. If you had daylight, it would be worth the trouble to step up on the height of this rock, and look at the perversity of the water
14. But that perversity which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion, now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her, and closed her lips, or impelled her to speak words amiss
15. Anything which might suggest to the inmates that the Inquisition would not, in fact, deal with them as sternly as the Book of Schueler required could only strengthen the perversity and corruption which had drawn them into the worship of Shan-wei in the first place
16. "What folly!" answered the other, and in a perversity born of long restraint, she
17. Jim Ablett was a Protestant but he wasn’t in the Orange Lodge, so there had to be some perversity or mischief to his choice
18. I wore the perversity of it proudly for a while
19. Nevertheless, while Sir James said to himself that he had completely resigned her, since with the perversity of a Desdemona she had not affected a proposed match that was clearly suitable and according to nature; he could not yet be quite passive under the idea of her engagement to Mr
20. Farebrother thought he could account for this speech, in striking contrast with Lydgate's former way of talking, as the perversity which will often spring from the moodiness of a man ill at ease in his affairs
21. The perversity of it had been a turn-on
22. I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good God
23. " The district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man
24. And then, the strange perversity
25. “This isn’t a good movie,” she wrote, “but it’s compellingly tawdry and nasty… the only movie that explores the mean, unsavory potential of Marilyn Monroe’s cuddly, infantile perversity
26. As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission—the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance
27. Thus her perversity hath shown
28. So, I suppose, this obstinacy and perversity were pleasanter to them than any advantage
29. There is a remarkable, although little known, work entitled "Unpartheyische Kirchen und Ketzer-Historie," 1729, by Gottfried Arnold, which treats of this subject, and points out the illegality, the perversity, the lack of sense, and the cruelty of employing the word heresy in the sense of refutation