flagellation

• “I believe the humility and self-flagellation is real, but also a very effective political tactic: a pre-emptive confession that defuses any accusations.”

  The McCain Story - Swampland - TIME.com

• “Self-flagellation is an annual tradition in Pampanga and other parts of the Philippines in which men whip themselves into a frenzy on Good Friday to atone for their sins.”

  Boing Boing

• “Yet upward of a half dozen times a year, this phenomenon of self-flagellation is repeated in the nation's prisons.”

  Why Prisoners Riot

• “They determined that the flagellation was an appropriate symbolic representation of what happened to Jesus every time we denied the truth of his life and his teachings.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Poet Prince

• “Those with more time go to Urbino, for the enigmatic little painting once called a flagellation, now identified as "The Dream of St. Jerome.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Piero Without Peer

• “A simple test of the big ego is the inability to take a joke, inability to take criticism, seeing everything as an insult to one's respect or "face" which must be protected at all costs (status game), every idea is to be taken very seriously and a profound dissatisfaction is felt and expressed when reality is unwilling to cooperate, either the lack of self-criticism (everything is the fault of others or society) or the opposite extreme, self-flagellation, which is just basically another kind of big-ego game, the holier-than-thou one, and an inability to see other people as anything else but the object of one's desires or an obstacle to them.”

  Armed and Dangerous

• “Chercheurs et des Curieux_, and thus obtained a complete bibliography of flagellation which is of considerable value.”

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

• “– - What a train wreck of a show that would be, unless Beck & Palin are into self flagellation.”

  Think Progress » Palin says her favorite founding father is ‘all of them.’

• “All presidents are human, and taking responsibility does not mean self-flagellation.”

  Dear President Bush,

• “It shows them that even if their attempts at terror fail, they may still obtain an opportunity to propagandize from the largest stage in the world, while their captors undergo self-flagellation.”

  Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Problem with the KSM Trial

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