Sentences with phrase «with sadism»

A 2014 study found that people with higher levels of sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism were more likely to engage in online trolling behaviour, with sadism being the strongest predictor.

Higher levels of psychopathy and sadism tend to predict trolling behaviours, with sadism being the strongest factor.

Geometrical minimalist sculpture, associated with sadism and incarceration, is burlesqued, stained and defaced; phallic monuments are decapitated.

A pound - store Tarantino with the sadism dialled up and the wit switched off, Roth has the very basics of a stomach - clenching suspense sequence down pat.

The pleasure of many games, both old and new, is laced with sadism.

According to a 2014 study entitled «Trolls Just Want to Have Fun» from psychologists Erin Buckels, Paul Trapnell and Delroy Paulhus, «trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism,» which are a part of the «Dark Tetard» of personality traits.

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These so - called «exocists» have done nothing but exascerbate and violate the mentally - ill with their «voodoo rituals» that border on extreme violence and sadism.

It must be admitted that when Christianity has dwelt upon the promise of heaven and the threat of hell, it has often combined a selfish hedonism with a morbid sadism.

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.

He helps us put in its proper context the conduct that society has conditioned us to disapprove of — acts that range from the sexual libertinism of the Marquis de Sade to the minor sadisms of the Rolling Stones: urinating in public against a service station wall, trashing the hotel rooms in which they stayed, distributing their semen with indiscriminate generosity to avid groupies.

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.»

White chuckled with the friendly sadism of a good coach.

Goneril (Kate Fleetwood) is icily assured, contrasting with Regan's (Anna Maxwell Martin) twitchy girlish sadism.

i'm a real masochist who search a real sadism with a few limits to help me to become a slut slave maso

With the root of his sadism, her masochism and the mood music their combined issues make together all adequately explored, we're left mostly rehashing old tensions that, with familiarity, have gone a little slWith the root of his sadism, her masochism and the mood music their combined issues make together all adequately explored, we're left mostly rehashing old tensions that, with familiarity, have gone a little slwith familiarity, have gone a little slack.

Woo, a master of poetical carnage, mixes kitsch, sadism, sentiment and comedy with choreographic precision.

Patton's personality — conveyed with pointed theatrical flair by George C. Scott — is registered in rich tones of grandeur and megalomania, genius and petty sadism.

A tiring exercise in time - biding sadism (versus wit or suspense), inflated with shock editing, noisy effects and an angry score, like a thriller with road rage.

For all of Banning's overtly racist sadism with that big ol' knife, the wounding itself is always conveniently out of frame.

Combining Hitchcockian camerawork, lush, over-saturated colors, rollercoaster - like thrills, and at times surreal situations, Argento could overcome the sadism and misogyny in his gallery of sliced and diced beauties with the sheer cinematic bravura and beauty of the sequences.

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 sadism.

Where Inside (À l'intérieur) combined sadism with tension, The Strangers is only interested in one thing — keeping you on the edge of your seat.

Yet Pasolini's scenario pushes back against ordinary sex appeal at every opportunity with violent depictions of unfettered sadism.

Martin's external earnest politeness conflicts with the self - righteous sadism that simmers within him.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like «Sophie's Choice» by way of «The Burbs».

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Her sincere desire to be a bride of Christ is first challenged by the borderline sadism with which Blessed Rose's Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo) runs the convent — for a while, Novitiate plays like a distaff Full Metal Jacket, with nuns in training systematically humiliated and emotionally abused by what amounts to a soft - spoken drill sergeant in a habit.

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.

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.

«Fear Factor left behind the rule book in E.L. Katz's ultra-violent parody on American economic desperation that mixes murky morality with a heavy twist of sadism.

Angel, played with snarling bravado by Perlman, provides the film with its true «monster», surpassing Jesús in brutality and sadism despite the fact that the latter has become a literal bloodsucker.

But with «Reasons to Be Pretty,» which premiered off - Broadway last spring to positive reviews, LaBute seemed to trade in his sadism for a healthy dose of sympathy.

Not that we totally identify with our deadpan sociopathic narrator and main character, but that's precisely what happens to Lou Ford, the clean - cut young deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas, (Casey Affleck, in another masterful performance to rank with his work in «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford»), a small - town psycho with a taste for compulsive, 1950s pulp sadism (really dirty, dangerous stuff — let's say S&M without the safe word).

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.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like Sophie's Choice by way of the «burbs.

The prison is a mid-range motel room with a cross on the wall, a bible on the nightstand, a Wyeth on the wall that indicated day or night, with food, a monotonous series of Chinese dumplings and sadism delivered on a tray via a slot in the door.

Neon lights, pulsing strobes, fantastical sets, and pounding music embellish a crazy mishmash of sadism and gore, with helpings of necrophilia, attempted rape, and cannibalism.

In terms of atmospheric tension and stomach - churning acts of sadism, it's an effective piece, but coupled with the cheesy acting, music video style direction, and over-the-top delivery, the elements tend to cancel each other out for more discerning viewers.

Working with a suitably drab desaturated Super-16 palette, first - time director Fabrice Du Welz draws heavily on the macabre domestic slapstick of Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the rural paranoia of Straw Dogs and Deliverance for this unsettling male - anxiety fantasy, striking the right balance between grim sadism and grotesque comedy.

The sadism enacted on screen is directed at the audience, battering us with horrific, deadening images.

The 300 and Watchmen auteur's distinctive style remains the same, a mélange of super-slow-mo, computerized tableaus, and ultra-violence with more than a hint of psychosexual sadism.

I also sensed a strong Takashi Miike vibe, what with all the sadism, black humor and fetishistic imagery!

At its core it was a puzzle game, but with the added sadism of watching Lemmings die in horrific ways when you got it wrong.

What you'll hear in this episode: • How working with BDSM became a focal point for Coreen • Why it's important to have the correct information in the public domain • Providing a safe place for people and dealing with misinformation • Understanding the power dynamics of BDSM • Having a positive relationship between the therapist and client • The current definition of BDSM — Bondage, and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM).

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.