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masochistic

adjective Referring to masochism, see there.
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"Is it the case, as we suggest, that he has totally lost it with her that night?" The prosecutor said Broadhurst used Natalie's love of "certain masochistic behaviour" as an excuse for what he did.
Millionaire 'killed young girlfriend when he lost it in drug-fuelled S&M sex game' Property tycoon denies murder
The "logic of masochistic fantasy" is slippery stuff, and Kucich proceeds with caution.
Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
Thus, she argues, although both Deleuze and Noyes have made crucial contributions to the academic discourse on masochism, they both fail to adequately theorize masochistic aesthetics.
Mennel, Barbara. The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature
Yamatani has said: ''(Some writers) still write masochistic history textbooks, who may respect (Vladimir) Lenin's words.''
Japanese editorial excerpts -3-
In an otherwise compelling analysis of chivalric models of masochistic eroticism in Across the River, Fantina pauses to speculate about Hemingway's relationship with a young Italian woman:
Queer as Papa
Moreover, this ambivalence or hostility has given rise to masochistic fantasies as the preferred cinematic spectorial position within the slasher film and helps to explain the success of these films.
Imagining murderous mothers: male spectatorship and the American slasher film
Add to that the fact that job loss is accompanied by a loss of access to health care, and you get a kind of captive mentality bordering on the kinkily masochistic: Beat me, insult me, double my workload, but please don't set me free!
Kleenex workers
Fantina locates a similar masochistic dynamic in Hemingway's work, arguing that although one doesn't find the whip-wielding dominatrix of Sacher-Masoch's novels, Hemingway's male characters continually submit to dominant women, and thus push the boundaries of acceptable masculine behavior.
Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism
Hamilton satisfied a customer's masochistic tendencies by stretching a Ruger Blackhawk frame to hold a five-shot .45-70 without a problem.
Hamilton's handsome hoglegs
Masochistic enjoyment is a substantial component in the construction of the fighting male body as a war machine, but in the 50s war films this component was absent.
Spectacles of pain: war, masculinity and the masochistic fantasy in Amos Gitai's Kippur
In "A Child Is Being Beaten" (1919) Freud gives a very good account of how masochistic sexual impulses find potency and sexual discharge in fantasies about a child getting beaten and humiliated.
'The Woodsman': a different view
It may make people both masochistic and fatalistic.
By his stripes we are healed

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