What is "masochistic"

Usage examples of "masochistic".

Sexual Masochism is usually chronic, and the person tends to repeat the same masochistic act.

By now, the actor has acquired enough suppleness and resiliency to snap into the new role which the relendess dramatist has kept in store for him: that of the masochistic hermit.

Nellie, Dostoevsky brings this type of moral-psychological conflict, with its characteristic swing from wounded sensibility to masochistic self-laceration and sadism, into its sharpest focus.

Both exhibit a fierce pride, a drive toward masochistic self-abasement, and an undying hatred of their persecutors and oppressors.

Dostoevsky tried to console himself by reflecting, certainly with an edge of masochistic sarcasm, that the denizens of the camp were probably composed of the same mixture of good and bad as people in the world outside.

Erin knew what that meant, and as they settled down in front of the TV, she wondered what masochistic impulse kept her from excusing herself and retiring to her room with a book.

But then I took the precaution, just in case her excitement exceeded her secret willingness to play the rules of my little game for her own masochistic benefit, of tucking the tweezers and plume into the pocket of my robe, squatting down, and taking the felt belt of my robe out and binding it fast around her right ankle, with the other end drawn round and round a metal ring set into the floor.

The masochistic desire to be exploited that passes as the collective desire of his audience seems almost as perverse as the Puritan desire to be scourged by God.

The younger intellectuals have no objection to the American language and tend to have a masochistic attitude towards the U.

An endless masochistic denunciation of his own race, and a series of traditional caricatures of Anglo-Indian society, with its unbearable club life, its chota pegs, etc.

Miroe moved away from the patrol craft began a path through the mutilated corpses of the mers, inspecting each hide-stripped, bloody form with masochistic thoroughness.

Billy either, because he hung with Peaty and Iwas masochistic enough to find out.

The two fell into flowchart, Holmesian deduction, tapping panels, toggling switches, volleying terms, injecting patches, and cross-referencing their way through the massive metal-bound manual with masochistic relish.

Paris, who might know where a powerman would go, once a month, to hire blondes for a liaison with -masochistic overtones.

My semiannual visit to the dentist is as masochistic as I care to get.