5 sentences with “perverse”

Trees and fish are crying out for our help in the face of acid rain. A perverse mechanism devours life: a price too high for modern times.

The pseudo-sciences of race had emerged in the late 19th century as perverse offshoots of genuine advances in biology and the natural sciences.

All these tasks are of labyrinthine complexity for a computer and consume perverse amounts of memory. But the most powerful robots are beginning to master them.

At the same time, modern anti-Semitism was linked to modern racial theories, including Darwinian evolutionary theory, its perverse Social Darwinism, and the eugenics movement that sought to purify Europe's (and America's) racial gene pool.

The promise of technology was realised in its most perverse form as the energy of advanced industrialism was unleashed in weapons of mass murder. World War II was also the scene of the Holocaust, the first and only incidence of industrialised mass murder in world history.