Contumax voluntas, as Melancthon calls it, malum facit: this stubborn will of ours perverts judgment, which sees and knows what should and ought to be done, and yet will not do it.
Overthrows the natural heat, perverts the good estate of body and mind, and makes them weary of their lives, cry out, howl and roar for very anguish of their souls.
It will only be when we have attended to our own national first principles--our Cadet Citizens--that we can notice imported dullards and perverts among us by contrast with our own product.
Let those who are in quest of bigotry seek for it among the perverts to Rome, and not amongst those who, born in the pale of the Church of England, have always continued in it.
Has it not seen equivalents for the hands and feet of brothers carried by popish perverts to the "holy priests," and has it not seen the manner in which the offering has been received?
Consequently, the perverse intention of the minister perverts the sacrament in so far as it is his action: not in so far as it is the action of Christ, Whose minister he is.
A perverse intention perverts the action of the one who has such an intention, not the action of another.
I have been able to ascertain that the excellent author was not misled in this passage by any carelessness of his own, but by confiding in Cotton’s translation of Montaigne, which absolutely perverts the sense.
Daniel, President of the State Medical Association of Texas, "Should Insane Criminals or Sexual Perverts be Allowed to Procreate?
These considerations do not, it is true, apply to many kinds of sexual perverts who form an important proportion of the clients of brothels.
The ways in which a crowd perverts any event of which it is a witness ought, it would seem, to be innumerable and unlike each other, since the individuals composing the gathering are of very different temperaments.
But the chances of lots thrown at a venture introduce fortune into the several conditions of life in which we are brought up, and which pre-occupates and perverts our own choice.
And what do we now else, O my best friend, but demonstrate that their sect perverts and destroys all our common conceptions with improbable things and unusual expressions?
The hereditary relations of the positive pervertsare not so well known because they know how to avoid inquiry.
Any departure from this principle by the General Government not only perverts and destroys its nature, but furnishes a just cause to the injured State to withdraw from the union.
These perverts were mostly to be found among nobles desirous of amassing church property, or among those of the clergy who clamoured for communion in both kinds.
Zapolya, a devout Catholic, is lauded by Archbishop Frangipan in 1533 for arresting the spread of the new doctrines, though he would not allow Martinuzzi to take the extreme step of burning perverts at the stake.
Light throws into action certain cells of that wonderful structure of the eye, the retina, and an over stimulus perverts the action of those cells.
This excessive smoking thoroughly perverts all the functions which should be at their best to aid this growing youth.
Thus the idea of a different dress in art and reality, of which that of art is to be the ideal one, perverts taste in dress; and the study of the nude which is rarely seen, as muchperverts taste in art.
The same old God-forsaken gang of moral perverts and intellectual misfits who more than two years ago brought a Canadian courtesan and an unfrocked priest to Waco to lecture on A.
It is true that some so-called yellow journals succeed in making money; but while they employ perverts they have no use for Smart Alecs and amateurs.
No part of it can ever afterwards be employed to maintain any but productive hands, without an evident loss to the person who thus perverts it from its proper destination.
Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry.
The prodigal perverts it in this manner: By not confining his expense within his income, he encroaches upon his capital.
Because of these two social characteristics--the patriotic bias which perverts judgment, and uncontrolled passions which submerge reason--the educational propagandists still have a task to perform.
The incorrigible recidivists among the sexual perverts are, I am convinced, either hereditary or strongly predisposed, or degenerated by alcoholism.
As it is this class which generally become known, it is assumed by too hasty generalization that sexual perverts are necessarily cynical, vicious or weak-minded individuals; but this induction is false.
I am not referring here to sterile marriages between perverts or psychopaths, which we have mentioned above, and which can always be allowed when the two parties are fully enlightened on the subject.
Erotic art ought not to become a hospital for perverts and sexual patients, and should not lead these individuals to regard themselves as interesting specimens of the human race.
He should never frighten or reprimand the poor hypochondriac who blames himself for masturbation, nor sexual perverts of any kind, unless, of course, they are absolutely dangerous, such as sadists.
This deplorable customperverts youth and gives it false ideas.
Catholicism often perverts the intelligence; Protestantism might naturally go the length of perverting the heart.
Modesty is a sentiment which has survived, as we have seen, because it was useful to the propagation of the species; mysticism perverts and corrupts it and enlists it precisely against the propagation of the species.
Pinneo also misquotes and perverts a part of it, thus: "Oh, Absalom!
Thus it is that the sin of man often perverts arrangements designed for good, and so perverts them that they become sources of grievous evil.
The Polygar, Who kneels to sun or moon, compared with him Who thus perverts the talents he enjoys, Is the most bless'd of men!
Perhaps Charles Lamb's famous saying, that recitation perverts a beautiful poem, would have been qualified had some poem been read to him with full recognition of its artistic character.
To read a monologue on one pitch completely perverts its spirit.
To give this a careless rendering with its metric movement confused, as is often done, totally perverts its meaning and spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perverts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
