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- noun French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
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Examples
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Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade 1740-1814, commonly called the Marquis de Sade, wrote novels describing sexual satisfaction derived from inflicting pain or degradation on others.
Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade 1740-1814, commonly called the Marquis de Sade, wrote novels describing sexual satisfaction derived from inflicting pain or degradation on others.
QUIZ by Jonathan Goldberg Rene Meertens 2010
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The Marquis de Sade was a brilliant publicist, and his warning caused great consternation in England; despite all the denials, people in every part of England were able to hear the newts drilling into the ground beneath their feet.
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Sadism was named for the 18th century Frenchman Donatien-Alphonse-François De Sade, aka the Marquis de Sade, while masochism drew its name from an Austrian aristocrat, Chevalier Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a contemporary of Krafft-Ebing's.
SCI FI Wire 2009
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He is to propriety what the Marquis de Sade was to chastity.
Karl Grossman: Murdoch Media Empire: A Journalistic Travesty Karl Grossman 2011
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Who thinks of submission as therapy -- other than perhaps the Marquis de Sade?
Stanton Peele: Intervene This Stanton Peele 2012
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Or, say, you can consider the ambiguous pleasures of the trial in Paris in 1956, to determine whether to allow the republication of four novels by the Marquis de Sade.
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On occasion they face peril, if not great inconvenience: wind spouts, branchless trees, and imprisonment in geometrically structured environments that resemble Versailles tended to by Le Corbusier and the Marquis de Sade.
James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection James Scarborough 2011
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Not in the Marquis de Sade way, but as an instrument of policy in lieu of imprisonment.
Illogical But Not Unjust Jonathan V. Last 2011
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The children spend their days tending the graveyard, where Christie gradually comes to credit Barnaby's fears about his uncle—an epicurean whose favorite author is the Marquis de Sade.
In Brief: 'Let's Kill Uncle' Joanna Scutts 2011
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