Sentences with phrase «as sadism»

Rather, it reveals the true motivation as sadism, extending to all involved, including the family, friends and police; not the sensationalist kind, but more banal and almost every day.

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Singer / songwriter / poet Leonard Cohen said, «Mankind must rediscover the crucifixion as a universal symbol, not just an experiment in sadism or masochism or arrogance.

If this alphabet train is not fun enough for you, others such as those at Wesleyan University have added «BDSM» as a caboose for the bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism crowd.

Mankind must rediscover the crucifixion as a universal symbol, not just an experiment in sadism or masochism or arrogance.

Twain's Satan, in fact, sees the sadism of the Old Testament God as an escape from a universe that would otherwise have bored Him with its unrelieved sweetness and light.

She unflinchingly blasted «the omnipotence of a heavenly being who decrees suffering» 40 as a manifestation of either «Christian masochism» (the calamities we accept as somehow God's will) or «Christian sadism» (the calamities we inflict on others in God's name), or both.41 There is «no way to combine omnipotence with love.»

After cross-referencing the answers, the researchers concluded, «General bitter taste preferences emerged as a robust predictor for Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism and everyday sadism.

As we all know that S&M stands for sadism and masochism, I'm going to focus on sites that are best for finding like - minded partners.

And a huge selection of alternative activities to choose from including things like: bondage, diapers, cross dressing, food play, lactation, sadism, whips and pretty much every activity that might be thought of as alternative.

Red Sparrow, a stodgy, confused mishmash of sex, sentimentality and sadism that offers more convolution than suspense, is hopefully as bad as their collaborations get.

As a character, Fletcher is a Rorschach test for feelings about fathers and teachers — and any high - stakes training where tough love and sadism are often indistinguishable.

unlike babyface which could be deemed as a social satire about a ghetto girl's eager angst to clander to the top in search of power, harlow's reddish circe is more like a ridicule of sex such as the scene she's trapped in the phonebooth and the absurd connotation of sadism & masochism as harlow remarks «do it again!

This film is not as creatively innovative as its predecessor, but it unravels some major revelations that get to the heart of the psychic effects of political upheaval, the reality of institutionalised sadism, the difference between revenge and justice, and whether docos can have real - world effects.

As much as the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadisAs much as the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadisas the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadisas a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadism.

Paulson's one - note beeyotch character doesn't do the actress any favors, but Fassbender, in what could have been a mustache - twirling part, is utterly transfixing as the kind of guy who really does have a deeply emotional investment in manic racial sadism.

The children's rendition of Rambo is actually much easier to take and enjoy than its bloody source film, as daring stunts and goofy ideas (a scarecrow antagonist, a flying dog) stand in for post-Vietnam sadism.

Gibson, of course, knows how to stage a battle or two and is the master at making his protagonist (often himself) suffer masochistic slings and arrows; no one does stylized sadism quite like Refn (well, maybe Tarantino — imagine him as the godfather, then).

Killer Joe casts McConaughey as a preening wolf let loose in the henhouse, a corrupt authority figure whose pristine appearance — in a realm where nobody seems to mind looking like death personified — and strange moral code mask a core of pure sadism that comes out in a gruesome, bleakly funny climax that will forever change the way audiences view fried chicken.

As an entry in the Victorian - period ghost story canon, Crimson Peak strives for the time - honored and sumptuous sadism of Mario Bava — especially with all the sea green and blood red hues that occupy the picture — del Toro does visual justice to the cobwebbed candelabras and blood - flecked vaults and terraces emblazoned on the screen, but the overall effect is meager, he mostly just taps a thinning vein of gothic clichés.

The hectoring Funny Games sought to rebuke viewers who willingly consumed its story of smug sadism, and Code Unknown's assertion that the audience is unable to fully grasp Haneke's meaning could be read as another example of his didacticism, but the latter film is more earnest and rigorous.

For those not as invested, the film version does manage to be one of the better thrillers in recent years, with solid characterizations, a capable cast of actors, and, for those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your seat.

But the direction is heavy - handed, John Travolta is very hammy as the villain and the movie is so full of envelope - pushing torture and sadism that it's likely to repel everyone but violence - addicts in need of a particularly gruesome fix.

No recent high - profile horror franchise has poked and prodded at America's economic anxieties with the same curiosity and sadism as The Purge series, which takes place in a dystopia where all crime is legal for one night a year.

Bruce Willis» performance as Dr. Paul Kersey, a good doctor pushed to do some very bad things to some very bad people by the cruelty and sadism of fate, and some very sadistic filmmakers, is to film acting what Jeb Bush was to Presidential politics.

But Reeves counterbalances a solidly world - weary cast (including Keri Russell and Kodi Schmitt - McPhee, who, as Malcolm's frail, indie - comic - reading son, could certainly have been more annoying) against some of the strongest mo - cap effects ever put on screen, allowing Kibbell and Serkis to breathe unmistakable gravity into both Koba's vengeful sadism and Caesar's sad - eyed realization that apes and humans have more in common than he'd like to admit.

Dreamily kind for the most part, but given to fits of furniture - hurling rage and truth - telling so blunt it borders on sadism, Manglehorn drifts through his own life, observing the often quirky people around him as if from a great, sad distance.

In a mere 90 minutes this horror film (pun intended) casts serious aspersions on the integrity and social responsibility of its Pittsburgh - based makers, the film industry as a whole and [exhibitors] who book [the picture], as well as raising doubts about the future of the regional cinema movement and about the moral health of filmgoers who cheerfully opt for this unrelieved orgy of sadism.»

There's a safety to it, as its drama plays out on a tiny stage, a cruel little diorama where innocence is upstaged by sadism and kindness is flanked by betrayal.

This features the complete (or as complete as possible) version in a beautiful transfer that preserves the color and the beautiful sets as well as the all the sex and sadism.

Elsewhere, the Extra Credits crew castigated Hatred (video) for not being about rage or violence, as it advertised, but about pure and simple sadism.

, (b) early on, as low - level characters have few ways to influence the cards, and (c) in the occasional bouts of random sadism (2).

As the American novelist Edmund White has succinctly phrased it: «The spiritual side of life, to be sure, is diminished by jokes... Humor is the enemy of lyric beauty and sadism (Jean Genet is never funny), but their friend - or at least their willing accomplice — is wan humor, weak jokes, old gags, tired one - liners.

The precision and exacting skill in Walker's shadow figure cutouts, their emotional evocativeness, is heightened by the deliberate crudeness of the puppetry — the choppy filming, Walker's hands sometimes coming into view as she works the horrendous acts of rape and sadism against the slow, mournful music.

Taking each of the tetrad in turn, narcissism is associated with feelings of superiority and ego - inflation; psychopathy is linked to impulsivity and callousness; Machiavellianism is associated with manipulation and exploitation of others; and sadism is defined as the enjoyment of inflicting pain on others.

One way to try to understand why people engage in trolling is to investigate whether they are likely to show particular personality traits, such as narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and everyday sadism — known as the «dark tetrad».