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"flagellation" Definitions
  1. the practice of whipping yourself or somebody else, especially as a religious punishment or as a way of experiencing sexual pleasure

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The point is not to encourage self-flagellation in White viewers.
The only self-flagellation after Sunday's game came from the players.
I weighed the regret against the fear; the self-flagellation grew.
Cursed by reflexive self-flagellation, he is blessed by high metabolism.
In dreamspace, he's freed of his meekness, she of her self-flagellation.
But liberal adaptation to change is not merely a process of self-flagellation.
Opening news-centric social media, lately, has become an exercise in self-flagellation.
Duff continued the tradition, with the requisite self(ie)-flagellation issued via social media.
Medicine's culture of perfectionism can sometimes border on self-flagellation, self-sacrifice, even martyrdom.
Canadian self-flagellation results always in the same warm, comfortingly smug sense of virtue.
But too much self-flagellation and genuflection can look foolish and smack of fakery.
Often with these bigger lies, self-flagellation got in the way of any meaningful analysis.
It actively shames people for their weight and encourages a version of sweaty self-flagellation.
But his deeds weigh heavy on him, feeding his spiral of self-flagellation, addiction and recklessness.
It's a little bit nostalgia, a little bit chest-puffery and a little bit self-flagellation.
Like Caravaggio's "Flagellation," its depiction of violence in chiaroscuro reaches Baroque heights of intensity and drama.
Shias are given to emotional commemorations of the martyrdom of Ali and Hussein, including public self-flagellation.
To avoid my self-imposed PT Cruiser flagellation, I was willing to roll the dice a little.
There is even a countermovement pushing back on too much self-reflection and news-driven self-flagellation.
For outsiders, rumors of self-flagellation and mock crucifixions add a dramatized mystique to the organization's contested reputation.
Their participation in the flagellation of Cathay is a reminder that their ultimate loyalty is to the party.
Tumblr—the internet's preferred space for fandoms and emotional self-flagellation—is undergoing a particularly bizarre moderation crisis.
Some Republicans, left to deal with the fallout of the repeal failure, opted instead for collective self-flagellation.
The episode's asides show just how mundane these moments of intense self-flagellation have become for its title character.
Indeed, various governments have rebuffed calls for colonial apology, and suggested that Britain should cease its historical self-flagellation.
Op-Ed Contributor After a year of self-flagellation and angst, Democrats finally got some good news last week.
Usually, this pathway outside Parx Casino is reserved for self-flagellation, a private lament at the last hundred lost.
The campaign was so negative and dominated by outrageous distortions [that] afterward there was a period of self-flagellation for journalists.
In songs like "Mutiny in Heaven" and "Zoo Music Girl" intravenous drug use and sex are portrayed as glorious self-flagellation.
Keeping Score After decades of self-flagellation, it is not easy ceding the mantle of martyrdom to more deserving baseball fans.
But for those who partake, from Iran and Afghanistan to Pakistan and India, self-flagellation is the purest form of worship.
But in Duffy's adaptation, first performed at London's National Theatre in 2015, salvation by self-flagellation proves to be a false track.
And a particular brand of politics — fueled by self-flagellation, piety, pride and legal jeopardy — seems to thread through every threatened impeachment.
In reality, students are taught a twisted form of Jesus's teachings that focuses on themes of guilt, shame, fear, and self-flagellation.
"There was flagellation," said a prosecutor, Edwin Blanco, as he told reporters about Mr. Illanes's killing, which included blows to the head.
I don't wish to discourage you from giving to good causes, but you shouldn't do so in a spirit of self-flagellation.
With no small amount of self-flagellation, Goldsmith confesses that his own selfish careerism made him turn his back on his stepfather.
How did ... The media after the election of last year did a lot of soul searching, a lot of public self-flagellation.
It's easy now for journalists to engage in well-deserved self-flagellation for not having a better understanding of what happened in Michigan.
The most dramatic incident Albinati relates from his school days involves some bullies whipping a weaker boy, as in a rite of flagellation.
That said, some of his self-flagellation is quite funny, as when he recounts a journal entry from his freshman year at college.
The rituals commemorating the death of Hussein involve self-flagellation, with crowds of mourners striking themselves and some lacerating their heads with blades.
This approach stands in stark contrast to Obama's EPA, which believed the only way to a clean environment was through regulatory self-flagellation.
Perhaps mindful that Donald Trump's nomination represented a repudiation of that Republican autopsy's recommendations, Democrats have opted to pass on the public self-flagellation.
Instead, the Knicks embarked on a bout of self-flagellation, rebuking themselves for the errors they could have avoided in their second consecutive loss.
"The Cage Fighter" is hardly epic in scope or originality, but it is uncommon to watch this degree of open self-flagellation on screen.
On the surface, he convincingly telegraphs contrition and a deep disgust at his own weaknesses, but disarming self-flagellation has always been his art.
Every rejection, every time a story is killed, every time I stare at my dwindling bank account, I go through my routine of self-flagellation.
Goading Michael Bisping was an act of expiation, of penance, of mortification, of self-flagellation, a mea culpa that any medieval monk would be jealous of.
As he watched the culmination of a half-decade's worth of work turn into something that resembled used Kleenex, Clark vacillated between numbness and self-flagellation.
Wiedemann is being assisted in his ambitious bit of self-flagellation by Sara Anna Lisa Vogl, a virtual reality designer who is alsowearing a pink onesie.
Legislative branch cuts were a kind of self-flagellation intended to appeal to unhappy voters, but they've just made Congress weaker, without making it more popular.
It would be an act of immense self-flagellation for our government to apply the ideas of the past to regulate these enterprises of the future.
Being a writer, there are certain things that I'm predisposed to: self-deprecation, mental self-flagellation, and a wandering mind that takes me to fantastical places.
One example, by an unidentified artist, is a 27th-century North Italian drawing of the Flagellation of Christ whose gossamer refinement suggests the influence of Leonardo.
If there's a villain in this book it's "our implacable foe" Vladimir Putin, an "audacious despot" who gets a steady flagellation over the course of two chapters.
Something about the rejection made me crave the self-flagellation of weighing in, knowing that I would be disappointed in myself no matter what the scale said.
JOANNA CLARKEDirectorDeaf Child WorldwideLondon I found The Economist's self-flagellation over its past mistakes in predicting future events to be refreshing, unique and admirable (Free exchange, June 235.3th).
George Seferis's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as his characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.
But, the dude couldn't have been happier watching the Yanks hang 5 on the Twins -- the adrenaline took hold, the shirt came off and the self-flagellation began!
He starts disappearing down internet rabbit holes of panicked reporting on a laptop at night, indulging in the very contemporary form of self-flagellation that is mainlining bad news.
This is the same era when some magazines in Victorian England were publishing firsts-person letters about tight-laced corsets and flagellation and forced crossdressing and things like that.
"We got played," CNN's John King said afterward on the air, a moment of unusual candor that echoed the frustration and self-flagellation of many journalists in television news.
I am referring to the endless self-flagellation among well-educated liberals — "the elites," in pejorative parlance — about their failure to "get" the concerns of white working-class voters.
So this media self-flagellation makes for impassioned copy just as it will make for a footnote in the fascinating and turbulent history that is the media right now.
As the groom's former fiancée who sued him for damages after he broke off their engagement six years before, she's here for closure and a perverse need for self-flagellation.
Here is the problem I have with this act of self-flagellation from a police chief born, raised and now police chief in one of the wealthiest communities in America.
The altarpiece also includes Cimabue's "Flagellation of Christ," which is now in the Frick Collection in New York, and "The Virgin and Child With Two Angels" in London's National Gallery.
This year, with a more diverse field of nominees — and controversy over race and xenophobia hanging over the entire country — the film industry was ready to turn its flagellation outward.
In the Bible, John wears a rough garment of camel hair, which suggests the kind of uncomfortable scratchiness that might easily go hand in hand with self-flagellation and self-mortification.
Yes, it's a bit corny—nobody really wants to hear your drug stories—but it's given us a chance to laugh at the collective self-flagellation we're part of every weekend.
After clearing the Rise of the Giant late last year in what can only be described as an act of self-flagellation, I wanted to give up on Dead Cells for good.
But we need to be honest about the big picture: Donald Trump's approach to politics, including his public flagellation and eventual firing of Jeff Sessions, really is damaging the foundations of American democracy.
Originally started as homage to events during Christ's Passion, self-flagellation evolved into a movement in which penitents revered suffering as the only way to guarantee a clean soul and passage to heaven.
The political press wants self-flagellation, but Clinton is placing the blame for her Electoral College loss elsewhere: on James Comey, on the media, on sexism, on fake news, on the Democratic Party's infrastructure.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Crucifixion and flagellation, bodies pierced with arrows and set alight on pyres, tongues torn out, and breasts sliced off — Western art history is rife with images of suffering.
While some of this year's Realness fare felt relentlessly inward-gazing — like Karol Tyminski's grating exercise in self-flagellation, "This Is a Musical" — "Minor Matter" tapped into a place of generous and generative rage.
To the Editor: Yes, the cycle of mea culpa has arrived: the media's self-flagellation for its role in turning our painfully attenuated election process into something between a reality show and a carnival.
Kanye West: Ye (Good/Def Jam) Having spent the past two years embarrassing himself in the media, the former best rapper alive furthers his craving for public flagellation on a short, hasty, careless album.
MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - Catholics in the northern Philippine province of Pampanga, many bare-chested and hooded,  practice self-flagellation in the sweltering heat in the week before Easter to commemorate the suffering of Jesus Christ.
Like a remorseful Victor Frankenstein, Buterin tends to make amazing things and then denigrate them online, a sort of self-flagellation that is actually quite useful in a space full of froth and outright lies.
But where I differed from the diarist at her age wasn't just in funds or spending habits, but in my attitude – perhaps best described as guilt-ridden self-flagellation – towards the unearned advantages I had.
Think: Alicia Keys without the rap-guy features; Fiona Apple minus the self-flagellation; Amy Winehouse without, well… Instead, the 27-year-old crooner is something of an anomaly in a world of fast fame.
His lifelong thematic obsessions — the flagellation of the body, the conflation of the scatological and the divine — are expressed on the page with all the rancor and destructive force that eluded him in his theatrical productions.
The other components of the polyptych were acquired by the Frick Collection in New York in 1950 ("Flagellation of the Christ") and the National Gallery in London in 2000 ("Madonna and Child Enthroned between Two Angels").
Suddenly, looking critically at stories that forecast our impending doom at the hands of technology or capitalism or white supremacy became more of an exercise in miserable self-flagellation than of actual intellectual or moral analysis.
Across-the-board, sequestration cuts were put in place under Obama and then-House Speaker John Boehner as an act of self-flagellation to get them to agree to a larger and more sweeping budget deal.
On the surface, he treats jazz as an object of affection, but really it's not much more than a stand-in for white male self-flagellation, a proxy for how white men come to understand themselves.
The story reads: Both intellectual intoxication and asceticism or self-flagellation are not only permitted in all their forms; there are brilliantly stocked bars for one purpose and amazingly manufactured exercise equipment and torture chambers for the other.
The work is now titled the Mocking of Christ, as Turquin believes it to be part of a small polyptych by Cimabue that also included the Flagellation of Christ and the Madonna and Child Enthroned between Two Angels.
" Salam argues that especially for Asian-Americans, "embracing the culture of upper-white self-flagellation can spur avowedly enlightened whites to eagerly cheer on their Asian American comrades who show (abstract, faceless, numberless) lower-white people what for.
Thus, as Democrats begin their self-examination and flagellation over how to reshape their party, they may want to look at the hard analysis and deep think occurring by some in their party in the Old Line State.
In the context of the problems that Messi and his teammates are experiencing in Russia, the fact that some of Argentina's coaching emissaries are also struggling will be seen as just one more excuse for national self-flagellation.
Devon Maloney: There's always a stack of books on my nightstand, a few in my Audible queue, and a couple downloaded onto my Kindle, because I am a glutton for self-flagellation because I am an intelligent, passionate individual.
It's incredibly simple to make Stairwell Kermit memes because you just have to dwell on whatever mistakes you've made recently—if you're like me, you're doing this constantly—and slap your self-flagellation at the bottom of the steps.
Cuddy, in particular, has emerged from this upheaval as a unique object of social psychology's new, enthusiastic spirit of self-flagellation — as if only in punishing one of its most public stars could it fully break from its past.
I possessed, too, an early inclination toward self-flagellation; not yet a teenager and readily repentant, I feared I might lose the gift God had given me — what I'd longed to receive from the people in my life: unconditional love.
The most effective essays in Trick Mirror are those that encourage us to be suspicious, and to look for the moments when we can act—without self-flagellation or declarations of virtue—on those suspicions, rather than on our desires.
In what became known as the Historikerstreit ("Historians' Dispute"), right-wing scholars in Germany proposed that the nation end its ritual self-flagellation: they reframed Nazism as a reaction to Bolshevism and recast the Holocaust as one genocide among many.
As she explains, deliberately hurting oneself has a long history—for example, self-flagellation for religious reasons—but the category of "self-harm" as a distinct behavior that is related to mental distress is an invention of the 19th century.
Notebook For all his flagellation of the dishonest, disgusting and corrupt media — including, of course, "the failing New York Times" — Donald Trump rarely seems as comfortable as he does when swaddled in the soft glare of the TV news cameras.
Her women, demoralized by the absence of fathers and husbands, by stunted careers and aimless children, are locked in self-doubt and self-flagellation, though rarely do they lose faith in "better times," even when they've had slim experience of them.
If you opposed Clinton, either from the Bernie left or anywhere on the right, you can look past her self-flagellation to find evidence supporting the claim that she is flinging blame like a toddler left unattended with a bowl of pea puree.
It was, however, the first time I didn't feel glee or hopefulness or, conversely, total despair, as if this program is the one that'll make me happy or change my life or keep me from far more dangerous routes of self-flagellation.
A Bestiary by Lily Hoang (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) Speaking of pain, I don't think I've ever read so graceful and understated an exploration of one's own damage, and the traditions and self-flagellation that helped encode it, as A Bestiary.
Instead of PowerPoint presentations and state-by-state voter analyses, there was morose self-flagellation, as some admitted they had spent the election seduced by "magical thinking," unable to envision a Trump presidency and therefore blind to the story in front of them.
He doesn't talk quite as much as Gilgeous-Alexander, his Canadian counterpart, but he DOES sort of wander around the court, juicing himself up with self-talk, throwing three point signs when appropriate, indulging in both personal celebration and flagellation with abandon.
If a few moments in "Unpronounceable" smacked of juvenilia—an overwrought description of a falling snowflake, for example—the writing, on the whole, was heartfelt and trenchant, even when tackling such difficult topics as crises of faith and the tradition of public self-flagellation.
We live in an era in which a 15-year-old's politically incorrect musings on social media are likely to result in a suspension from school — days of inward reflection and collective self-flagellation in whatever school such rash expression might have taken place.
The "Flagellation" hangs here near two startling gilded statues of Mary and St. John by the lesser-known sculptor Johann Georg Pinsel, as well as a C-list St. Sebastian, stiff and unconvincing, that Francisco de Zurbarán could not have spent much time on.
For those unfamiliar with we're talking about, here's the original video (which currently has more than 400 million views): Because such an act of self-flagellation is strange and unusual even for our own absurdity-laden standards, we just had to talk to Graham.
The show's anchor is Caravaggio's "Flagellation of Christ," painted in 1607-8, in which the bearded, thorn-crowned son of God looks downward as two men tie him to a column while a third prepares to flog his naked body with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
There was no self-flagellation for the public — of the brouhaha around "Nipplegate" she said "...there are much worse things in the world, and for this to be such a focus, I don't understand" — and she has never participated in arenas where she did not wish to be.
In contrast to the intense self-flagellation of Ai Weiwei's recent staging of himself as Alan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian infant found lying facedown on a pebbled beach near the shore of Bodrum, Turkey, Azzam's work takes on a much more isolationist, less offensive, and less egotistical aesthetic.
Established in 1902 by the Franciscan Custody of The Holy Land, The Terra Sancta Museum is an annex to the Monastery of the Flagellation, which stands at the second of the eleven Stations of the Cross — Jesus's path to crucifixion after he was judged and condemned by the Romans.
While To Pimp a Butterfly was in large part a messianic yarn about artists' personal obligation in lifting up the neighborhoods that birth them, untitled feels like a collection of the macro observations that pulled Kendrick into the crisis of self-doubt that Butterfly cuts like "u" bear out in pained self-flagellation.
"Not only would additional steel import restrictions under the guise of a national security imperative be economic self-flagellation, which inspires retaliation from our trade partners against U.S. exporters in other sectors, but it would constitute a major blow to the rules-based trading system," said Dan Ikenson, head of the libertarian Cato Institute.
This means, in the first place, that narrative momentum is less essential to it than the ruminative atmosphere that envelopes people and events, and secondly, that the book's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as the characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.
"Presumed Innocent" was one of my favorite legal thrillers even before the movie (starring Harrison Ford), and the best book I have ever read about law school is Turow's "One L," which perfectly captures the absurdity of law students' obsessive self-flagellation and their insatiable, impossible drive for affirmation from those who instruct them.
Turquin said there was no doubt about the authenticity of the painting, as it was in the style of the Italian master and tunnels made by woodworms in the poplar wood panel match those of two similar Cimabues, a "Madonna Enthroned" in London's National Gallery and "The Flagellation of Christ" in the Frick Collection in New York.
But there's also some good news: Britain has some of the lowest unemployment in Europe (and has been sucking in people from abroad for years); Britain has seen support for the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party fall at a time when support for other European far-right parties has been surging; Britons find time to attend literary festivals, pop festivals and even restaurants between rounds of self-flagellation.

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