When you've had your worst week of the campaign, to submit yourself to two or three more days of flagellation? |
The third scene depicts the flagellation, making obvious allusion to the flagellation of Christ in the martyr standing in the centre. |
The masochist prostrates himself to the lowest of the low, submits to castigation and flagellation, and his whole sexual organism is aroused to an abnormal pitch of pleasure. |
Like a zealot who demands a public flagellation to expiate his sin, Martin's thirst for punishment grows until his mental health is in doubt. |
Due to the flagellation constraint, the cost of reproduction increases with increasing colony size. |
I find that I do not admire Serra for his form of holiness, the endless flagellations and literal breast-beating, as well as not taking care of his health. |