"Chiefly to enjoy good conversation, I understand," her husband retorted perversely; and she broke into an appreciative laugh. "Oh, Newland, how funny! Isn't that FRENCH?"
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. 儘管在金錢往來上，欠債是理應受到譴責的，但奇怪的是，處理得當的債務卻是友誼和愛情的重要支柱。
All of these formed a powerful interest group against meaningful reform, or to turn reform perversely in their favor.
Yet over several years until mid-2007, their currencies perversely rose relative to those of economies, such as Japan and Switzerland, with big surpluses.
And, perversely, decisions with the greatest payoffs are the ones that we tend to put off the most.
There seemed no end to my inventivenss in finding ways to defeat or undermine myself, even perversely to act out destructive roles that I did not want to perform.
And the Web almost perversely discouraged the kind of systematized, coordinated, focused attention upon which brands are built - the prime, or at least most lucrative, function of media.
The result of all this is that, perversely, the smoking ban gives non-smokers less choice over where and when they confront smoking.
Companies are intent on peddling a constant stream of new products and services but, perversely, the concept of tradition still drives the business.
Lastly, and perversely, the decade of obsession with expanding home ownership may actually have reduced neighbourhood stability.
There's something perversely fascinating about educational policies that are clearly at odds with the available data.
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