Sentences with phrase «from flagellate»

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This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

I ended up getting none of those, which was a lesson to me about moving from the true path I'm still flagellating myself over.

During the 1950s and 1960s, as Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism purged representation from the canvas, Buffet's continued repertoire of expressionist clowns, bullfighters, cityscapes and flagellated Christs were left open to accusations of quaintness, even kitsch.