self-flagellation

• ““You don’t call self-flagellation a form of pride?””

  Simon & Schuster: Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set

• “Otherwise your unfailing commitment will only lead to self-flagellation.”

  The Huffington Post: Dyane Jean François: New Year, New You: How To Make Your Resolutions Work

• “Even voters who are not directly impoverished by the cuts and who know the boom was unsustainable everyone sort of knew will tolerate only so much collective self-flagellation before soothing themselves with nostalgia.”

  The Guardian: The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr

• “A little self-flagellation isn't going to hurt you.”

  Fictionaut: Banging My Head Against the Garage Door of Religion

• “A 98% on a test was not good enough, and there'd be a goodly bit of self-flagellation there.”

  Thor's Day

• “Worse, it is linked to imperialism, having provided Europeans with the justification for their far-flung conquests in centuries past—and, these days, for endless self-flagellation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hidden Treasure

• “In their modern forms, the noble Western traditions of self-assessment and self-criticism have often degraded into sentimental self-flagellation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Roots of Europe's Cultural Masochism

• “ÂNow, men, young and old, were participating in Zanjir Matam, self-flagellation with chains.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran, Part 2

• “Now, men, young and old, were participating in Zanjir Matam, self-flagellation with chains.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Kalch: Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran, Part 2

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

  Dear President Bush,

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