| The characters are violent in every sense of the word, and they are sadistic or masochistic. |
| Such childhood-beating narratives play an important part in Freud's interpretation of sadistic and masochistic personalities. |
| The religiosity at the core of his films has always transformed his leading ladies into masochistic saints at best, abused playthings at worst. |
| When a young student becomes smitten with her, the teacher enlists him in her dangerous, masochistic sexual fantasies. |
| Most of what is seen in the film is bondage, discipline, and masochistic acts performed by actual participants in that world. |
| The marriage was not a success, and in his last years, he suffered from a pathological masochistic melancholia. |
