Example Sentences

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"It was never going to end well, and his downfall was inevitable. Eventually his lies caught up with him and he is now facing the consequences of his deceit, and his perversions."

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

Series co-creator Craig Mazin writes David as a metaphor for the twin perversions of absolute power and male supremacy.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2023

Unlike “Go, Went, Gone,” which critiqued the power structures that enable perversions and prejudices to flower, “The Laughter” seems to argue that the worst consequences of these structures are immutable and inevitable.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

English filmmaker Peter Strickland has become one of the world’s leading practitioners of bizarre genre deconstructions, with such gleeful perversions as “Berberian Sound Studio” and “The Duke of Burgundy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019

This ideal Basine was a mixture of lies, shams, perversions of fact.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben