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  • I looked up at the high walls and saw that, with their flair for the sadistic, the Nazis, in the last few days, had topped the walls with rounded stones that resembled headstones on graves.†   (source)
  • "THERE IS SUCH A STUPID 'GET EVEN' MENTALITY— THERE IS SUCH A SADISTIC ANGER."†   (source)
  • Reznik is an equal-opportunity sadist.†   (source)
  • She turned the page to reveal a photo of a sadistic-looking dentist.†   (source)
  • There was something sadistic in Red Shirt's eyes, and he looked away, focused back on the infected man just as the blue gel reached his feet and solidified around them.†   (source)
  • He wasn't sadistic, but he didn't shrink from his "duties" as master of the plantation.†   (source)
  • His accent made him exotic and interesting; his broken arm made him a martyr; his sadism made him a natural focus for all those who loved pain in others.†   (source)
  • I guess I could have confirmed your identity before I spilled to you the details of my evil, sadistic plan to take over the school with our two-person alliance.†   (source)
  • Although we had both endured our share of bullying at school, Platt's persecution of Andy—inventive, joyous, sadistic —had verged on outright torture: spitting in Andy's food, yes, tearing up his toys, but also leaving dead guppies from the fish tank and autopsy photos from the Internet on his pillow, throwing back the covers and peeing on him while he was asleep (and then crying Android's wet the bed!†   (source)
  • He had been roadblocked on the crucial scene between Denker, the sadistic headmaster, and Gary Benson, his young hero, during the last unhappy six months at Stovington, months when the craving for a drink had been so bad that he could barely concentrate on his in-class lectures, let alone his extracurricular literary ambitions.†   (source)
  • His deep voice, slightly sadistic, carried easily out the hall into the courtyard where we were gathered.†   (source)
  • Oh, a sadistic vampire, intent on torturing her to death, sure, no problem, she runs off to meet him.†   (source)
  • Each had a hurt he had to forgive: the neighbor who had reported him, the brutal guard, the sadistic soldier.†   (source)
  • Real sadism, he said.†   (source)
  • CIC has smuggled a guy onto the Raft, where he is trying to infiltrate one of its many colorful and sadistic pirate bands: the Bruce Lee organization.†   (source)
  • I copied Richard Widmark's sadistic laugh and used it for ten years.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked down at Peter's upstretched finger, again feeling repulsed by his captor's sadistic play on words.†   (source)
  • There's no need to be sadistic just because he isn't one of you.†   (source)
  • One morning we found among them the man who was the bane of our lives: a sadist whose surname we did not know, but we had called him Thwick-Thwack.†   (source)
  • So Nick Is a Lying Killer-slash-Sexual Sadist.†   (source)
  • Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.†   (source)
  • Curmudgeons, sadists ….†   (source)
  • He's a sadist."†   (source)
  • She spent that night on the Internet, reading articles and theses on the psychopathology of sadism.†   (source)
  • Aware that Moody was goading me, I still could not sort out reality from his sadistic fantasies.†   (source)
  • They were led by a sadistic fellow named Fourie, whom we privately called Gangster.†   (source)
  • Then I hear him laughing, a sadistic chuckle that stokes my defiance.†   (source)
  • Psychopath with definite sadistic tendencies, probably motivated by an unreasoning egomania.†   (source)
  • As the experiment progressed, the guards got systematically cruder and more sadistic.†   (source)
  • Gay Pornstar was a strutting sadist with a flattop hairdo, close-set eyes, and a bristling mustache who resembled nothing so much as a Village People tribute-band reject.†   (source)
  • Just my luck, my angel mentor was tilted a bit to the sadistic side.†   (source)
  • --COTTON MATHER, IN A SERMON, ADVISING PREGNANT WOMEN No one reading this book, we hope, can fathom the sadistic cruelty of those soldiers who used a pointed stick to tear apart Dina's insides.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle LeFarge has a particularly sadistic smile on her face when we arrive.†   (source)
  • In Naval Special Warfare, I've found the corpsmen are the most sadistic of our bunch."†   (source)
  • It was commonplace for teachers to behave like sadistic drill sergeants, slapping children across the cheeks, hitting them with their fists, or bludgeoning them with bamboo or wooden swords.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm just not a sadist.†   (source)
  • Or was I a sadist, someone who secretly enjoyed their torment and wanted to witness it firsthand?†   (source)
  • The others are anger rapists and the worst, sadistic.†   (source)
  • In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic "teachers."†   (source)
  • He's what they call a sexual sadist.†   (source)
  • Thus, typical endorsements on the official documents might read, 'John Milton is a sadist' or 'Have you seen Milton, John?'†   (source)
  • I was pretty sadistic with him quite often.†   (source)
  • I think it's crazy and sadistic," I said bitterly.†   (source)
  • Seven girls lost their lives to a sadistic killer who may be out there right now, stalking an eighth.†   (source)
  • Or to give myself some kind of sadistic catharsis.†   (source)
  • Before each training day, we completed a punishing physical training or PT workout of long runs, push-ups, pull-ups, and anything else the sadistic instructors could cook up.†   (source)
  • 'Whether harsh intolerance and bitter rectitude are the armour worn over fear and disappointment, or whether they are the festival-dress of the sadist, they cover an enemy of the life-force.†   (source)
  • But those killings pale next to the sadistic methods a younger Khrushchev employed to climb the Communist Party ladder in the early 1930s.†   (source)
  • I, who know what discipline, what effort, what tension of mind, what unrelenting strain upon one's power of clarity are needed to produce a work of art-I, who know that it requires a labor which makes a chain gang look like rest and a severity no army drilling sadist could impose-I'll take the operator of a coal mine over any walking vehicle of higher mysteries.†   (source)
  • Many of the boys who suffered most grievously would turn into the cruelest guidon corporals, the most sadistic platoon leaders.†   (source)
  • "It's sadistic.†   (source)
  • When they had heard that the war was over and they were the victors, they despaired, for their situation had failed to change, and they thought that they would be dressed in pajamas, and beaten and kissed by the sadistic footmen, for eternity.†   (source)
  • Sadists.†   (source)
  • Kids are mean and cruel and sadistic and evil and twisted.†   (source)
  • I know you think it was some sign of her coldness or sadism, but….'†   (source)
  • One of them, in an excess of infantile sadism, turned its back on him and pawed a shower of sand into his face.†   (source)
  • A sadist.†   (source)
  • The guards, some of them, were dour and sadistic men, skilled in unusual and degrading punishments.†   (source)
  • "Sadist," Oedipa yelled, "say it once more, I'll wrap the TV tube around your head."†   (source)
  • Hoss was hardly a sadist, nor was he a violent man or even particularly menacing.†   (source)
  • There have been racks of paperbacks with some great and good titles but overwhelmingly outnumbered by the volumes of sex, sadism, and homicide.†   (source)
  • It was the firm opinion of every recruit that this was sheer meanness, calculated sadism, fiendish delight of witless morons in making other people suffer.†   (source)
  • An act of madness, partly--of monstrous sadism.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, I'm a sadist and will not do it.†   (source)
  • 8TH JUROR: You're a sadist!†   (source)
  • The little sad man with spectacles who sat alone at the neighboring table, deep in a book on the manufacture of ball bearings, might have deduced, bad he been listening, that Leamas was indulging a sadistic nature—or perhaps (if he had been a man of particular subtlety) that Leamas was proving to his own satisfaction that only a man with a strong ulterior motive would put up with that kind of treatment.†   (source)
  • His real goal was to rescue his workers from Plaszow and the sadistic Goeth.†   (source)
  • Not wrong like sadism and murder and the other monstrous evils we saw in Ravensbruck every day.†   (source)
  • I see no vicious glee in her eyes, and not a hint of the sadism I expect.†   (source)
  • The bomber crew made a last gesture of sadism.†   (source)
  • It's just a sadistic trick of the Gamemakers.†   (source)
  • Anyone who sees this video will discover that you're not merely a pervert but an insane sadist.†   (source)
  • The air was sharp and flat, like the Watschen of a sadistic teacher or nun.†   (source)
  • The sadist specialised in people who were in a position of dependence.†   (source)
  • He was absolutely the most sadistic man I ever met.†   (source)
  • She had assumed he was on a power trip and liked to dominate, not that he was an all-out sadist.†   (source)
  • "So you're a sadist," she said matter-of-factly.†   (source)
  • This story is about a sadistic killer of women.†   (source)
  • The final benefit of the secret workouts was sadistic pleasure.†   (source)
  • "You're nothing but power-hungry sadists!"†   (source)
  • He was — is a messianic sadist, a butcher.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sadistic about it," she assured me.†   (source)
  • Or else she shot him in the foot out of sheer sadism.†   (source)
  • They're sick, meaningless, sadistic— "Maybe they have a meaning," Clary said.†   (source)
  • But every time she stopped running, a sadistic whitecoat—Reilly—zapped her with a stick thing.†   (source)
  • 'A million years?' persisted the jeering old man with keen, sadistic zest.†   (source)
  • It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.†   (source)
  • He might have a bit of the sadistic thrown in.†   (source)
  • He always brought out the old sadist in me.†   (source)
  • "They're out there, the sadistic ones, the incubus, the succubus.†   (source)
  • By Warrior I do not mean one who loves war or draws sadistic pleasure from fighting or bloodshed.†   (source)
  • Why am I healthy and sound while Lisbeth Salander is considered a dangerous sadist?†   (source)
  • He could have said, Sure, she's an okay person once you get past her itsy-bitsy sadism problem.†   (source)
  • I said, "Yes, what could be more fun than being with sadistic loonies for eight hours every day?"†   (source)
  • He's had a history of sexual sadism for years.†   (source)
  • But the search seemed only an excuse for Fourie's sadistic impulses.†   (source)
  • It was a wild, sadistic impulse—a sudden, unblinking surge of emotion.†   (source)
  • Teleborian was the most loathsome and disgusting sadist Salander had ever met in her life, bar none.†   (source)
  • The plebe system gave cruelty a good name, disguised sadism in the severe raiment of duty.†   (source)
  • Is Salander sadistically inclined, or how would you describe her?†   (source)
  • It was not her fault that her father had been a pathological sadist and murderer.†   (source)
  • The colonel punished him sadistically with a long, glowering, malignant, hateful, silent stare.†   (source)
  • I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • I'm alluding to the elements of sexual sadism in the relationship."†   (source)
  • We may use handcuffs sometimes for role-playing, but it has nothing to do with sadism or violence.†   (source)
  • "Bjurman had a tattoo across his belly which read 'I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist.'†   (source)
  • "You're a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist."†   (source)
  • And out of her hysteria a sadistic devil peered.†   (source)
  • Handing down bad decisions through sadistic spite, that's the one She dare not indulge.†   (source)
  • So where does he get off to call me a public avenger and a sadist and everything?†   (source)
  • I didn't then know what a sadist was — but I knew pups.†   (source)
  • You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we're all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.†   (source)
  • Because I outsmarted his sadistic Hunger Games, made the Capitol look foolish, and consequently undermined his control.†   (source)
  • "Because I'm a sadist," Crake said.†   (source)
  • I only had a sadistic vampire trying to avenge her mate's death with my own, preferably through some slow and torturous method.†   (source)
  • Sadistic.†   (source)
  • He took such a sadistic pleasure in his announcement, his smile appeared to pump the blood out of his mouth and the hole in his cheek; I thought that he was as pleased by the shock value of what he had to say as he was thrilled by the spectacle of wringing his own blood from the sodden gauze pad into the sodden towel.†   (source)
  • Are you telling me that a whole tradition of human failings is now at an end, that cowardice, sadism, molestation are meaningless terms?†   (source)
  • The Germans did not officially recognize this situation, and the master mason Schultke, described for form's sake as architect-in-charge and a typical sadist, had the right to beat the engineers as often as he liked.†   (source)
  • For the first time, I recognize Eric for what he is: an Erudite disguised as a Dauntless, a genius as well as a sadist, a hunter of the Divergent.†   (source)
  • "What's sadistic?"†   (source)
  • I am not sadistic.†   (source)
  • According to Hatto, Watanabe was a sexual sadist, freely admitting that beating prisoners brought him to climax.†   (source)
  • For two and a half years, he'd been forced to grovel before sadists and imbeciles as he tried to protect his men.†   (source)
  • He snuck sick men away from the sadistic Japanese doctor and into the hands of a POW who was a physician.†   (source)
  • She found one article published by a women's group in the United States in which the author claimed that the sadist chose his "relationships" with almost intuitive precision; the sadist's best victim was the one who voluntarily went to him because she did not think she had any choice.†   (source)
  • Some guards, intoxicated by absolute power and indoctrinated in racism and disgust for POWs, fell easily into sadism.†   (source)
  • From her own studies of the psychology of sexual sadism, Salander had learned that this type of murderer usually collected souvenirs from his victims.†   (source)
  • The other was murderous sadism.†   (source)
  • A notoriously sadistic camp official began speaking of his empathy for the POWs, and how a new camp was being prepared where there was ample food, medical care, and no more forced labor.†   (source)
  • I was…I had a little time to myself this spring and read quite a bit about sadists in a rather different context.†   (source)
  • The message was written in caps over five lines that covered his belly, from his nipples to just above his genitals: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • The idea that an insanely sick sadistic serial killer was slaughtering women for at least seventeen years without anyone seeing a connection sounds utterly unbelievable to me.†   (source)
  • It was so sadistic.†   (source)
  • A sadistic thought like that.†   (source)
  • —and Vosch standing over him, watching my father crawl the way a sadistic kid might a fly that he's dewinged, grimly satisfied.†   (source)
  • She had handcuffed him to his bed, abused him, and tattooed him with I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • He loved to talk to her about pornographic acts: sex with prepubescent girls and animals; nightmarish sadism; masochism; gynecocracy; enema torture.†   (source)
  • The eyes of someone for whom God was a sadistic old man; the eyes of a small town threadbare decency.†   (source)
  • He went to any length to curry favor with his superiors, and the most sadistic cliques were hard pressed to match his exploits.†   (source)
  • I could see it all so clearly—the blinding sun, the heat waves coming off the concrete as I ran with desperate haste to find the sadistic vampire who wanted to torture me to death.†   (source)
  • That's sadistic," she said.†   (source)
  • Yet even before, Alex had been a born sadist; Max did not want to think about what he might have done to Connor.†   (source)
  • Sadistic, almost.†   (source)
  • What a sadistic thing to tell a kid.†   (source)
  • Those shock troops you mentioned aren't troops, they're goons, sadistic thugs who've learned their craft from a master.†   (source)
  • The horse seemed to take sadistic pleasure in harassing and humiliating his rivals, slowing down to mock them as he passed, snorting in their faces, and pulling up when in front so other horses could draw alongside, then dashing their hopes with a killing burst of speed.†   (source)
  • Seeing as she currently dates a sadist pretending to be the biggest Christian in school, and, adding to that, she's about a year older than you are and doesn't know your name, I'm thinking maybe one in about three million?"†   (source)
  • "Plus, it's for the sadist Stacklum."†   (source)
  • The other seven daughters had died by BoneMan's hands quickly, but by giving Alvin Finch another target on which to inflict his sadistic rage, Ryan had kept his daughter alive.†   (source)
  • EST isn't always used for punitive measures, as our nurse uses it, and it isn't pure sadism on the staff's part, either.†   (source)
  • Actually, more like, let's all try to forget when we were at the mercy of sadistic spawns of Satan in a place that's a total, hellish abomination and ought to be firebombed.†   (source)
  • You are a butch biker to me, you know, riding into town to take over leadership of the sadists and necrophiles.†   (source)
  • I was beginning to doubt her assertion from the first day we'd met—that she wasn't sadistic about the use of her gift.†   (source)
  • Sensational headlines announced the handiwork of a sadistic, deranged, completely new kind of killer.†   (source)
  • On May 10, the same day the New Yorker magazine reported "numerous instances of 'sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses— in its cover story, "Torture at Abu Ghraib," Adam sat down on his bunk at the end of a fifteen-hour workday in Mosul.†   (source)
  • "Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night?†   (source)
  • "You're a sadist!"†   (source)
  • Miss Ratched may be a strict middle-aged lady, but she's not some kind of giant monster of the poultry clan, bent on sadistically pecking out our eyes.†   (source)
  • A few boys still playing ringolievio, haphazard and half speed, the clumsy fatboy trapped in the den, always caught, always it, the slightly epicene butterfat bulk, the boy who's always reaching down to lift a droopy sock and getting swift-kicked by the witlings and sadists.†   (source)
  • Because of this, the barracks at all times provided a safe regency for the sadist and almost all of them earned rank.†   (source)
  • 'Calling me crazy,' he shouted in a sputtering rage, 'is a typically sadistic and vindictive paranoiac reaction!†   (source)
  • For the majority of the Corps, the only sin of the sadist was that he believed in the system too passionately and applied his belief with an overabundant zeal.†   (source)
  • 'He hasn't gotten laid since we shipped overseas,' confided General Dreedle, and his square grizzled head bobbed with sadistic laughter at the fiendish idea.†   (source)
  • It was dangerous to have a sadist in the barracks, especially one who justified his excesses by religiously invoking the sacrosanct authority of the plebe system.†   (source)
  • The War Department replied touchily that there had been no error and that she was undoubtedly the victim of some sadistic and psychotic forger in her husband's squadron.†   (source)
  • But I had noticed that in the actual hierarchy of values at the Institute, the sadist like Snipes rated higher than someone who took no interest in the freshmen and entertained no belief in the system at all.†   (source)
  • "You think that she's a sadist?"†   (source)
  • She scrolled back and read through a section where she told how Advokat Bjurman had violently and sadistically raped her.†   (source)
  • It seems to me that Gunnar Björck, a prominent name on the list of johns, if you remember, had Lisbeth Salander put in an asylum after she tried to protect herself and her mother from a lunatic sadist who was working for Säpo.†   (source)
  • Later I would learn that many of the same boys who suffered most grievously in the plebe system became the most brutal and sadistic of upperclassmen.†   (source)
  • And far out in front the bursts of flak were still swarming into the sky from new batteries of guns poking around for accurate altitude as they waited sadistically for him to fly into range.†   (source)
  • It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.†   (source)
  • "An amateurish tattoo across his belly with a message that said: 'I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist.'†   (source)
  • She found a newly created folder with porn photos that made clear that he was still interested in the sadistic humiliation of women.†   (source)
  • The system contained its own high quotient of natural cruelty, and there was a very thin line between devotion to duty, that is, being serious about the plebe system, which was an exemplary virtue in the barracks, and genuine sadism, which was not.†   (source)
  • He carried a gun and was threatening, and there were elements of sadism and psychological terrorizing.†   (source)
  • Many of them were sadistic.†   (source)
  • Sadism repels me, Snipes.†   (source)
  • He had almost lost it when he saw the tattoo on Bjurman's abdomen: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • What I've turned up is a gang of brutal and sadistic losers who can hardly read or write; they're total morons when it comes to organization and strategic thinking.†   (source)
  • The letters were irregular and clumsy—obviously whoever wrote them was a novice tattoo artist—but the message could not have been clearer: I AM A SADISTIC PIG, A PERVERT, AND A RAPIST.†   (source)
  • Some sadist maybe, you know.†   (source)
  • Do they find their emotional fare so bland that it must be spiced with sex and sadism through the medium of the paperback?†   (source)
  • They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.†   (source)
  • Or are you a sadist?†   (source)
  • Those people might have been murderers, sadists, brutes, ugly apish subhumans for all I knew, but I found myself thinking, "What charming people, what flair, how beautiful they are.†   (source)
  • It maddened the eardrum, pure sadistic torment made aural, and I jumped from the bed to pull the window down.†   (source)
  • I showed him some fancy jigs and poppers I'd bought at Abercrombie and Fitch, and gave him one, and I gave him some paperback thriller I'd finished with, all loaded with sex and sadism, and also a copy of Field and Stream.†   (source)
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