perversity
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Mamet, 74, came to prominence in the 1970s with a series of plays including “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and “American Buffalo.”
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022
Lindsey Posner will direct Perry's playwriting debut, reuniting them after previously working together in 2003 on the West End production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2015
Still, despite such awareness, "The Wisdom of Perversity" moves toward its own uplifting ending, in which even the hardest, most treacherous experiences are ultimately redeemed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2015
The cultural dilution of David Mamet’s “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” continues with “About Last Night,” an adaptation/remake with even less of the play’s DNA than the dreadful original film.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2014
Many are unsound in the matters of Silliness, Pettiness, Pettedness, Perversity, or general Unpleasantness and Thrawn-ness.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
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