He returned to Basilan, and to his perverse mode of life--so much so, that he tried to kill Father Lado, in order to remove that obstacle to his evil designs.
Ansgar devoted his whole life to the accomplishment of this task, and in an incomparable manner fulfilled it, so far as indomitable perseverance, devotion and self-denial amid endless difficulties and perverse opposition could do it.
Before she had dared the ordeal of confession this feeling of hatred, this perverseand ugly changeling that had brooded in her heart, had seemed too strong, too deeply seated to be moved.
It is a child of ignorant or perverse imagination.
The attitude of opposition was strengthened by the perverse idea that brutal frankness is an expression of honesty, and hence reference to his honesty or dishonesty was a tender point of etiquette with my friend.
In my experiments I have used all sorts of means of suggestion with which to reach perverse habits of evil thought.
The heart dries up, and the affections wither away, and the soul faints, amid an atmosphere of cloudy doubts, and captious difficulties, and perverse disputations.
Now, what a curious picture of a perverse and crooked mind does such a sentence exhibit!
I must present him to the reader, for a short space, in extenso; since by no other expedient can the complicated fallacies of his very intricate and perverse method be exposed.
Besides, the moral of even a goody-good story may be ingeniously twisted by perverse readers.
Their philosophy gained no object beyond establishing more firmly their hypothesis, separating ever more widely nature and spirit, body and soul, the fleshly and the supernatural, and rooting more deeply a perverse view of nature.
The gipsy fascination, the abandoned, perverse bewitchery of this female devil of the dance is not to be described by mouth, typewriter, or quilled pen.
For all Luther's perverse opinions be grounded upon bare words of Scripture, not well taken, ne understanded which your Grace hath opened in sundry places of your royal book.
There are wanderers, whom neither pride nor a perverse humour have led astray; and whose condition is such, that I think few more worthy of a man's best directions.
A perverse freak of malicious memory carried Ashley back to the room in the little house at Chelsea, where his own portrait stood in its silver frame on the small table by Ora's favourite seat.
Such a spectacle should serve as a useful corrective for a judgment of the way of the world too personal and relative in character; it had on Ashley the perverse effect of increasing his discontent.
The conduct of Jesus to the rich young man appears to me a melancholy exhibition of perverse doctrine, under an ostentation of superior wisdom.
But everywhere when we go a little below the surface in Browning we find that there was something in him perverse and unusual despite all his working normality and simplicity.
To ask why Browning enjoyed this perverse and fantastic style most would be to go very deep into his spirit indeed, probably a great deal deeper than it is possible to go.
To console himself, he sets up perverse canons of right and wrong.
This perversebalderdash was getting on the nerves of the deputation.
For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand.
That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?
The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.
A perverse man stirreth up quarrels: and one full of words separateth princes.
A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it.
The perverseway of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in them.
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things: 2:13.
And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
It is not to be obtained but by main force, by using violence upon ourselves, by mortification and penance, and resisting our perverse inclinations.
A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth, 6:13.
Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in opposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our commandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces subject to us, 13:6.
Milly, Milly, can't you pity and understand me, perverse girl that you are, and the miserable plight that I am in?
The explanation of the perverse prosecution was, that the young gentleman did not 'fee' the worthy policemen, according to custom in such cases.
At this moment she felt angry with the perverse Sir James.
On the heel of one perverse imp another often treads.
Now we all know that pride, prejudice, anger, and avarice, are four of the most perverse imps the dramatis personae of the passions can afford.
But in vain; the perverse animal set her face to me, nor could any language I was master of prevail on her to approach sideways; and if I lifted my whip, she did but run backward and pull me down.
The church is in general to secure unanimity by moral suasion only; though, in case of wilful and perverse opposition to its decisions, it may be necessary to secure unity by excluding an obstructive member, for schism.
For, so long as man's selfish and perverse affections are unchanged, no choosing God is possible but such as proceeds from supreme desire for one's own interest and happiness.
Perverse human nature will take advantage of even the slightest additions to N.
The free will, and the evil bent of that will, are forgotten, and the absolute dependence of perverse human nature upon the regenerating spirit of God.
O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?
So would it be still, if this generation were not perverse and faithless in its turn--the world perverse, the Church faithless.
No doubt the same thought was in His heart again: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?
There is something so ridiculous and perverse in this kind of Zealots, that one does not know how to set them out in their proper Colours.
Zeal is therefore a great Ease to a malicious Man, by making him believe he does God Service, whilst he is gratifying the Bent of a perverse revengeful Temper.
When he is in town he lives in Soho Square: [2] It is said, he keeps himself a Batchelour by reason he was crossed in Love by a perverse beautiful Widow of the next County to him.
You must understand, Sir, this perverse Woman is one of those unaccountable Creatures, that secretly rejoice in the Admiration of Men, but indulge themselves in no further Consequences.
Kate Willow is a witty mischievous Wench in the Neighbourhood, who was a Beauty; and makes me hope I shall see the perverse Widow in her Condition.
The perverse Widow, whom I have given some Account of, was the Death of several Foxes; for Sir ROGER has told me that in the Course of his Amours he patched the Western Door of his Stable.
And after this discovery will any one be so perverse as to deny that on the contrary it must needs be Codexes B and [Symbol: Aleph], and not the great bulk of the MSS.
The two leading problems on which they exercised their perverse ingenuity are found to have been (1) the origin of Matter, and (2) the origin of Evil.
One is surprised at Tischendorf's perverse inference concerning the last-named place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perverse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
