masochistin a sentence
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If you're not a masochist, find a job you enjoy most of the time.
masochist = someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment
- It seemed like bravery to me before, but now it seems more like masochism.† (source)
- Going to the wedding of an ex seemed a masochistic att at the best of times, but to go to a public gathering, one that would be full of his old friends and work colleagues, to watch her marry his former friend, seemed to me a surefire route to depression.† (source)
- Glendale, the team we had lost to, got bitter, masochistic attention on the roadrunner with scores in foot-high numerals, as they continued to win and move through the tournament.† (source)
- She wasn't a masochist, she was no saint.† (source)
- And while only a truly masochistic car thief would ever think of jacking the Chrysler, I still didn't relish the thought of explaining to my mom how and why her car went missing in the small hours of a school night.† (source)
- Like you said —" My dad had a taste for masochism, the overblown gesture; on our Sundays together he loved to exaggerate his misfortunes, groaning and staggering, complaining loudly of being 'wiped out' or 'destroyed' after a lost game even as he'd won half a dozen others and was totting up the profits on the calculator.† (source)
- Only my strange need for a destination and a certain masochistic determination to complete the terms of my self-imposed exile keep me moving upriver.† (source)
- What a sick, masochistic lion.† (source)
- But he was masochistically pleased to see that the Mets were off to another superlatively cruddy start.† (source)
- If you run too far, you might be a masochist, an anorexic, or another type, and you will have to see an Official of Psychology for diagnosis.† (source)
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- It became a kind of masochistic status symbol to be "done" or "buried" (that quip had started even at Oxford) by Annie Graves.† (source)
- When he asked me to go along, some masochistic piece of me agreed.† (source)
- Maybe I'm a masochist.† (source)
- Was I a masochist, who wanted to relieve the agony I'd inflicted?† (source)
- I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations.† (source)
- The idea came to me that my people may be a race of masochists and that not only was it our fate to live the poorest, roughest life but that we liked it like that.† (source)
- We're not, you know, masochistic.† (source)
- I knew hearing them flirt would only get me worked up, but Vikki's squeaky voice carries, and they were standing really close to me, and yeah, a masochistic little part of me couldn't stop myself.† (source)
- It's total masochism.† (source)
- They all knew he had an assignment, and only a fool or a masochist would want to go outside today.† (source)
- You must be a raving masochist.† (source)
- He loved to talk to her about pornographic acts: sex with prepubescent girls and animals; nightmarish sadism; masochism; gynecocracy; enema torture.† (source)
- I had to ask in a masochistic way, "Was Lindsay there?"† (source)
- Clary wondered if she wasn't some kind of masochist, to throw herself into the path of it herself.† (source)
- Which would have been masochistic ecstasy for me, probably.† (source)
- A masochistic sort of thing.† (source)
- She may have been, she admitted, truly masochistic.† (source)
- Our kindness has been tainted with masochism since the world began, and it is not to our best interest to forget it.† (source)
- The trial was a necessary, but masochistic, ritual.† (source)
- BERENGER: I'm no masochist, I assure you.† (source)
- I've never been much of a masochist, so I'm not looking forward to the pain.† (source)
- But it was not masochism which brought either the first colonists or Sol and his family.† (source)
- There's bravery and then there's masochism, and the line got a little hazy with him.† (source)
- Had I turned masochistic—developed a taste for torture?† (source)
- I must be some kind of masochist.† (source)
- "Ahh," gasped Sol the day they arrived in the sun-baked village of Dan above the sun-baked ibbutz of K'far Shalom, "what masochists we Jews are.† (source)
- Why are you so masochistic?† (source)
- She hadn't returned to the Body Pump class again—people in there were obviously masochists—but she had started to keep a fairly regular routine at the gym.† (source)
- I'm not quite that masochistic.† (source)
- It was possible that the sweetly sonorous hymns stimulated me sexually, and it might have been that my fleshy fantasies, in turn, having as their foundation my already inflated sensibility, made me love the masochistic prayers.† (source)
- Man was forced to accept masochism as his ideal—under the threat that sadism was his only alternative.† (source)
- And she liked to think that he was suffering from repressed desire for her all of the time that she tortured him, and that the power to allay his suffering lay wholly in her—a sadistic trait which had for its soil Clyde's own masochistic yearning for her.† (source)
- Twice in two days smacks of masochism.† (source)
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