It's a perverse twist on the opening shot of "Sunset Boulevard," a deadpan shotgun wedding of Walt Disney and film noir.

In what seems like a particularly perverse twist, the film, which has not done well at the box office, has been seen by relatively few people in theaters.

By a perverse twist he is now doubted because he failed to say enough about China's other incredible wonders.

It would be a perverse little twist if Potter's biggest impact turned out to be in film.

And then, revealing a perverse twist of mind that helped land her the part, she added: "The situation is really quite Gothic.

The traffic signals were all against him, a perverse twist of fate, but he ignored every one of them.

Yet I could not quite dismiss it as a perverse twist of luck that he had fed me a form of the herb strong enough to obliterate my magic.

What a perverse twist on Mr. Clinton's pledge, when he ran as a new kind of Democrat in 1992, to "end welfare as we know it."

This draws her into the picture and, through a perverse twist, makes her the chief suspect when Mia and Dag are murdered.

If Mr. Thomas's plots demand a certain investment of blind credulity, they usually yield a significant payback in rollicking reading and perverse twists.