Rather, these matters often were not aberrant acts but part of a widespread pattern of covert conduct condoned at the highest levels of Government.

An aberrant act, but not an unexpected one.

"That speaks to a company's entire culture, from the top down, and not just to aberrant acts of individual employees," Mr. Getnick said.

Lots of good people wrote letters attesting to my excellent character, intellect and record, and the unlikelihood of my repeating such an uncharacteristically aberrant act.

While O'Neal seeks to reassert values, aberrant acts by high-profile athletes occur regularly.

The aberrant sexual act - rape, strangulation, voyeurism, anything - will provide the subject with the memory to construct fantasy.

'Yes, he will replay the aberrant act in his mind so that he can accomplish the act that is socially acceptable.'

That future, however, requires an aberrant act of selflessness: becoming a hybrid of man and sandworm.

Having been carried away by his aberrant act, he falls into a daze.

People with such paraphilias typically describe themselves as periodically overcome by an irresistible compulsion to perform their aberrant sexual acts.