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“He spoke so fast that the amazing perversity of his arguments escaped undetected; what remains of them is a monument of ingenuity and insolence.”

These cars are net insults to the climate and lose billions—the very definition of policy perversity.

The belief, which you’ll hear from Washington-based politicos of a younger sort, presumes that progressives’ unconcern about their side’s moral and ethical perversities has enabled the left’s cultural and political advancements.

The pro-government media was scathing in its criticism of the day's events, echoing remarks by leading Fidesz politicians that the march was a celebration of perversity, with nothing to do with freedom of assembly.

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“Dead Outlaw” evokes at moments the droll perversity of “Sweeney Todd,” the cold-hearted glee of “Assassins” and the Brechtian skewering of “Road Show” — Sondheim musicals that fly in the face of conventional musical theater wisdom.

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