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Examples
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So your Sadism is pretty mild compared to my brain.
Matthew Yglesias » Marc Thiessen: Obama is Too Good at Killing Terrorists 2010
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Sadism, which is an element in all practical jokes, perhaps the central element, was in the grain of Buddy's character.
Beard 2010
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What has come to be called "Sadism" is an instance of this aberration of an innocent impulse.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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"Sadism" and "masochism" are simply convenient clinical terms for classes of manifestations which quite commonly occur in the same person.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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This acronym, which refers to Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism, reflects the ancient sexual rituals of sexual dominance and submission that have qualified sex throughout history.
Wendy Strgar: The Connection Between Sexual Pain and Pleasure Wendy Strgar 2011
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This acronym, which refers to Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism, reflects the ancient sexual rituals of sexual dominance and submission that have qualified sex throughout history.
Wendy Strgar: The Connection Between Sexual Pain and Pleasure Wendy Strgar 2011
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But your support for what is a sadistic practice is evidence of Sadism.
Matthew Yglesias » Marc Thiessen: Obama is Too Good at Killing Terrorists 2010
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In one scene, a reporter tries to dodge a correction after the paper publishes a story that spells Saddam Hussein as "Sadism Hussein."
A Break Out on Breaking News Alexandra Alter 2010
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Sadism, the Soul of America, or Should I Say Moloch? by Mac McKinney on Sunday, Apr 19, 2009 at 7: 05: 07 AM
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month 2009
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Jeanette Wolff described what she had gone through in a brochure published in Thuringia in 1947: Sadism or madness: what I experienced in German concentration camps in the East.
Jeanette Wolff. 2009
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