| That ballet continues to enlist and attract thousands of young girls cannot be entirely due to false consciousness or masochism. |
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| The enactment of masochistic desire is a performance of history, and masochism is a synchronic enactment of diachrony. |
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| These processes are contrasted with masochism as explanations of self-directed wit. |
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| Definitions of pleasure are entirely relative, exampled most evidently by masochism or self-destructive tendencies. |
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| This is partly because he is compassionate about the suffering of ordinary Europeans, but also exasperated by their masochism and perverseness. |
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| Outside the masochism of the Maul Invitational, Michigan State will play just two nonleague games against big-name opponents. |
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| I take this less as a mandate for medieval masochism than an indecorous call to embrace our own authentic experience. |
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| There are different theories related to sexual masochism, many stemming from the psychoanalytic camp. |
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| He is also capable of equally disturbing acts of pure, self-abasing masochism. |
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| But the permanent and desperate struggle to reach a weight that is impossible to maintain for more than fifteen days is masochism. |
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| I was miserable, and thinking that it was pure masochism to go on so long, I went to bed. |
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| Yet her sexual masochism is oddly mixed with non-erotic desires for an omnipotent caretaker, infantile wishes that parallel his yearning for divine love. |
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| Do I accept to go out in Paris on a Saturday night out of sheer masochism, or for the sake of reinforcing my misanthropy? |
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| Some would think this is pure masochism, but Martina has another motivation for why she does it. |
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| Shakespeare did not think of constancy as a psychosexual characteristic allied to masochism, but rather as an earthly manifestation of divine love, which is beyond gender. |
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| Freud worked out the idea of the primary masochism that can be turned against others to become sadism. |
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| But they have certainly shown there are multiple alternatives to neoliberal masochism – which win elections, too. |
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| To want to reverse the trend and make them come to us smacks of a worrying masochism and loss of clear-headedness. |
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| That surprises me, because it seems to me that you are indulging in masochism. |
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| That is the masochism we have to suffer in this Parliament, and you, Mr President, are largely responsible for it. |
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| We know that nobody chooses to live with a risk factor out of pure masochism. |
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| In brief and limpid episodes French director Alain Cavalier bares the masochism, eroticism, and purity at the heart of Therese's self-enclosed crusade. |
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| Though the pursuit of sexual ecstasy through pain is seen as masochism, as a perversion, Bataille argues that this is one example of liberation through surrender. |
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| There is nothing quite like following Oasis as an exercise in masochism. |
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| Supporting the modern multiplex is an exercise in commercial masochism. |
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| The round-the-clock communications and solicitude evidently required for her maintenance demanded a heroism if not masochism in her patient allies. |
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| Seldom have I heard such a delicious example of parliamentary masochism. |
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| The willing masochism of being an England supporter is innate. |
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| Above and beyond a certain masochism, should we also see in Prokofiev's return the naiveté of someone rallying around the cry of a utopia that advocated art accessible to everyone? |
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| The bear got a big laugh, but cheerlessly I also served up the masochism and the self-inflicted paralysis, causing Jenny to tell me afterward that I was not sketching a complete picture. |
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| Such encounters might seem damaging to the point of masochism, but strategists reckon they make Mr Blair look in touch with the public, dispelling the notion that he is preoccupied by foreign affairs. |
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| From the way the subjects of masochism and sadism have been processed and reviewed by psychoanalysts, one develops the doubt about their exactitude. |
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