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masochist
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  • 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)
  • But he was masochistically pleased to see that the Mets were off to another superlatively cruddy start.†   (source)
  • When he asked me to go along, some masochistic piece of me agreed.†   (source)
  • Maybe I'm a masochist.†   (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 had to ask in a masochistic way, "Was Lindsay there?"†   (source)
  • He loved to talk to her about pornographic acts: sex with prepubescent girls and animals; nightmarish sadism; masochism; gynecocracy; enema torture.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It became a kind of masochistic status symbol to be "done" or "buried" (that quip had started even at Oxford) by Annie Graves.†   (source)
  • Clary wondered if she wasn't some kind of masochist, to throw herself into the path of it herself.†   (source)
  • It's total masochism.†   (source)
  • Which would have been masochistic ecstasy for me, probably.†   (source)
  • She may have been, she admitted, truly masochistic.†   (source)
  • A masochistic sort of thing.†   (source)
  • The trial was a necessary, but masochistic, ritual.†   (source)
  • Our kindness has been tainted with masochism since the world began, and it is not to our best interest to forget it.†   (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)
  • Was I a masochist, who wanted to relieve the agony I'd inflicted?†   (source)
  • Had I turned masochistic—developed a taste for torture?†   (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)
  • I'm not quite that masochistic.†   (source)
  • Why are you so masochistic?†   (source)
  • I must be some kind of masochist.†   (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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