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How to use self-punishment in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word self-punishment? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It takes a lot of determined willpower to reset your mind to think more about self-nurturing and kindness than self-punishment and guilt.
You would think that the hero blinding himself in self-punishment would be the low point of tragedy, but the story just gets bleaker.
Suppressed aggression toward others became self-directed aggression and self-punishment.
The artist alternates between self-punishment and the exercise of power.
This is not self-punishment and has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.
What buried secrets could possibly prompt this severe a self-punishment?
We learn a lot about Sophie in that passage, about her rejection of her mother and about her tendency towards self-punishment and inflicting pain on herself.
The need for self-punishment may need to be worked through in therapy.
Elizabeth wandered the lane after having read Mr. Darcy's letter twice through, but again she returned to it, unable to refrain from self-punishment.
What looks like self-indulgence is actually self-punishment.
Both cases go against the WTO rules without any justification at all and, what is more, they imply self-punishment by the United States.
The austerity is admirable but the effect of this hair-shirted self-punishment is too often not the revelation of a new affective range, but a dutiful boredom.
How could he appease the wrath of Him who died on the cross, save by years of bitter supplication and self-punishment?
She said logging on to Twitter had become like a form of self-punishment.
By pointing out these facts, I am standing against the prevailing euro-scepticism and against the tendency for self-punishment among many of our colleagues.
I really need to know why we inflict such self-punishment on ourselves.
It was self-punishment masquerading as self-empowerment.
Where did this cultural appetite for self-punishment come from?
Self-punishment is abated by observing other members modeling appropriate emotional responses to various experiences.
Examples from Classical Literature
These evidences of an impulse to look on correction as a quite proper thing are corroborated by stories of self-punishment.
To this self-punishment, indeed, was attributed the disease of the lungs which ultimately caused his death.
That action must be her self-punishment for the other time she had done it.
These men are supposed to have raised themselves to a high spiritual state by asceticism and self-punishment.
But was it from habit, or was it in self-punishment and remorse, that he never took off the cord?
For self-punishment is just as much a submission to the flesh as luxury and self-indulgence.
No more weary vigils in a room dedicated to remorse and self-punishment.
He was also liable to attacks of caprice and self-punishment.
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