But Picard asked aloud anyway, a perverse form of politeness, perhaps.

That specialists in simulating strong feeling are so honoured is a perverse form of faith.

The solution most certainly does not involve asking academies to take part in some perverse form of Victorian patronage.

An image that once connoted power now suggests a perverse form of fidelity to dullness and discomfort.

True to its perverse form, the all-male group, now aged 25 to 42, named its first commercial recording "Silence."

They had elevated physical and psychological torture to a perverse form of art.

This seems extreme to the point of a perverse form of self-indulgence.

They call for hard questions to be asked about "the perverse form of capitalism" that governments appear committed to on both sides of the Atlantic.

After a while, the overt antagonism turned humorous, too - a perverse form of urban entertainment.

But the masochistic embrace of art that tries to hit us where we live can provide its own perverse form of comfort.