masturbatory

• “– Well, I’m a libertarian who thinks the libertarian party is an exercise in masturbatory moralism.”

  Waldo Jaquith - Slow times at Stony Point Elementary.

• “For themselves (and while I would instinctively label it "masturbatory", this mode does imply a somewhat "purer" form of writing, if you subscribe to such notions in this post-post-post modern age);”

  why you write

• “A pair of dark-haired sisters who shared an uncanny mental bond played chess at one of the tables, which seemed kind of masturbatory, somehow.”

  Dead Beat

• “The next one is a really interesting discourse in philosophy, and it comes not in a kind of masturbatory intellectual discourse of big words and bull crap, but it really lets you find out what the big point is.”

  Comic Book Resources

• “I understand what DFW was going for in this section -- talking about hideous disfigurements while also reveling in the beauty of the words ... but it just comes across as a kind of masturbatory Don DeLillo homage.”

  Parabasis

• “That makes the distinction between "masturbatory" restoration and an actual restoration even clearer.”

  Home Theater Forum

• “Antinous/Moderator said: "You mean 'masturbatory' isn't a compliment?”

  Boing Boing

• “All they possessed was a linding, visceral hatred of the left and a masturbatory lust for the return to power.”

  Think Progress » Bartlett: Frum’s Dismissal Shows ‘All That Matters Now Is Absolute Subservient Adherence’ To The GOP

• “Again, how is Sarah Palin going to help you besides whatever is in your masturbatory fantasies?”

  Think Progress » Palin bars media from two upcoming Florida events.

• “By 13, most of them already have sex lives – at least masturbatory ones.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause

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