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de sade
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n. French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) [syn: Sade , Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade , Marquis de Sade ]
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De Sade ( German title : Das Ausschweifende Leben des Marquis De Sade ) is a 1969 American-German drama film starring Keir Dullea and Senta Berger . It is based on the life of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade , named Louis Alphonse Donatien in ...
Usage examples of de sade.
In the room with walls bound like books in large grained, crushed morocco, Chadwick and Count Donatien Alphonse Francois, marquis de Sade, sat in high-backed chairs playing chess at a C Fifteen moneychanger's table.
Myra is persuaded to share his admiration for the Nazis - he had a large collection of books about them - and de Sade.
Moro makes Caligula and Hitler and De Sade look like little Lord Fauntleroy.
The abbe de Sade calls aloud for a new edition of Petrarch's Latin works.
I was so proud of it, especially the parts I lifted from William Burroughs and the Marquis de Sade.
She was faced with a master psychologist about to outdo the Marquis de Sade.
In the imitation of the Marquis de Sade and, in a sense, of the Gothic tale as a whole, I can mention a modern work, Pauline Ré.
She was easily the most twisted lady Ive ever met (with the exception of my first and third wives, who had a corner on the market), and when it came to sex, she knew more tricks with a bar of soap than the Marquis de Sade and Leopold Sacher-Masoch combined.
Chulucan said, again using terminology of the ancient Marquis de Sade.
Shrank's Sigmund Freud Schopenhauer tarot card shop was knocked to flinders by the great hungry steamshovel, so off in the tide floated the Marquis de Sade and Thomas De Quincey, and Mark Twain's sick daughters and Sartre on a truly bad day, drowning in the dark waters over the shine of the shooting gallery rifles.
The Marquis de Sade became an enduring (and quite influential) point of reference, and Freud became Every-person's doctor.
Experiential designers will study the pages of Krafft-Ebing or the Marquis de Sade for ideas.