While Dante's Inferno only had nine rings of hell, this proclamation brings Handmaid's Tale to another, new level of nightmarish sadism in an infinite number of levels of nightmarish sadism.
|
|
The show's reveals frequently function as titillating sadism for the audience, even when its narrative themes explicitly warn us about the dangers of titillating the audience with doses of sadism.
|
|
The whole sadism is that you don't know. Right. Right.
|
|
Graham's comedy of sadism has become King's comedy of masochism.
|
|
Our holiday joy is an affront to their nihilistic sadism.
|
|
Saito was also later diagnosed with sexual sadism and necrophilia.
|
|
In short order, however, it exploded into cruelty and sadism.
|
|
For the most part, though, the movie avoids unmotivated sadism.
|
|
Nor was he ready to bend to Trump's brand of sadism.
|
|
So in some cases swatting is just manifestations of someone's sadism.
|
|
That's not cooking, that's sadism, and I'm gagging thinking about it.
|
|
His orders seem motivated more by spite and sadism than good governance.
|
|
To make that approach compelling, he really did need ultraviolence and sadism.
|
|
It would be horribly humiliating, I thought, almost an exercise in sadism.
|
|
Nymphomaniac drew criticism from some quarters for its unsimulated sex and sadism.
|
|
I wonder if there's an element of everyday sadism in online pranks.
|
|
That added element of violent sadism made her very unique to me.
|
|
It takes high levels of sadism and planning to execute something like that.
|
|
So in some cases trolling and swatting are just manifestations of someone's sadism.
|
|
Penny is dying, but Miller's interest in sadism and AM rock is awakening.
|
|
Examples for justifiable exclusions include homosexual materials, along with sadism, bestiality and child nudity.
|
|
This unfortunate moment was the kind of harmless sadism we could all get behind.
|
|
Ramsay Bolton: Sexual sadism disorder, sadistic personality disorder, and anti-social personality disorder/psychopathy
|
|
Mr. Buch-Jepsen asked about Mr. Madsen's involvement in the sadism-and-masochism community.
|
|
" A writer at Refinery 29 summed up her reaction: "this video is pure sadism.
|
|
The most popular kinks fell under the categories of voyeurism, fetishism, exhibitionism, masochism, and sadism.
|
|
And then uses the power available in ... Basically harassment is a form of erotic sadism.
|
|
Sadism— Wanting to inflict emotional or physical harm on others because you find it enjoyable.
|
|
It is also only a glimpse at the sadism Campbell will bring to this show.
|
|
She mutilates the genitals of more than one of her victims out of sheer sadism.
|
|
Meet Hatari (pictured), a self-described "anti-capitalist, BDSM [bondage-discipline-sadism-masochism] techno band".
|
|
In the past, Hans says he's struggled to reconcile his sadism with his personal values.
|
|
My sessions as a pro-domme serve as a healthy outlet for my sexual sadism.
|
|
Whether it be the way he coolly undoes Claire's social graces or his outright sadism.
|
|
Sarah didn't find out about her educated husband's sexual sadism until it was too late.
|
|
His steadfast attachment to conformity and respectability is inseparable from his coldblooded, self-serving sadism.
|
|
The violence of the handshake—and what he saw as Muslet's evident sadism—shocked him.
|
|
Ramsay was a bastard whose insecurities became wrapped up in his own fucked up sadism.
|
|
Web shaming and school bullying are among the socially tolerated examples of sadism explored here.
|
|
Another study, published earlier this month, also found a link between trolling, psychopathy and sadism.
|
|
Still, a movement fueled by sadism will delight in admissions that it has caused pain.
|
|
Research shows that internet trolls tend to display personality traits like sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
|
|
There's a kind of charismatic sadism to it that's currently serving to hold the show together.
|
|
The research shows that internet trolls tend to display personality traits like sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
|
|
"Doing a piece about the sadism of people doesn't need to be pessimistic," the dramaturge adds.
|
|
Haynes allows his visitors, many motivated by racist sadism, to execute Leigh over and over again.
|
|
It lacks the sadism of "Chopped," thank goodness, and there aren't those conniving "Top Chef" antics.
|
|
You don't need to be motivated by sadism or bigotry or some other base, inhuman impulse.
|
|
She is spared some of the sadism and torture, and she doesn't suffer a psychological collapse.
|
|
I understand why, bombarded with stories about the Trump administration's sadism, people can just shut down.
|
|
The homework he turns in is even more foreboding: full of sadism, sexual violence and fury.
|
|
It may be difficult to believe, but there's no negativity in it—no hate, no sadism.
|
|
"This group of priests used whips, violence and sadism in raping their victims," the report states.
|
|
Over the last few days, stories of bureaucratic sadism have poured forth from America's southern border.
|
|
So for me, it was about sadism, and making him an explorer of the human condition.
|
|
We hope that there's some purpose here – even a cynical one – because otherwise it's just pure sadism.
|
|
The state is no longer speaking with one voice, and in the gaps, surplus sadism trickles through.
|
|
You have to wonder whether Andy Offutt's furious, sadistic imagination also explains his sadism toward his children.
|
|
The sadism of treating human beings like vermin lies precisely in the recognition that they are not.
|
|
Lurid yet turgid, the movie is a tale of doomed puppy love, Nazi eugenics and sexual sadism.
|
|
But Paul Giamatti suggests the sadism that colors Chuck's nobility here: It's not enough to achieve justice.
|
|
Studies of people who troll find that they score high on measures of psychopathy, sadism and narcissism.
|
|
True crime, even when it rises out of sensationalism and sadism and pulp, is about the criminals.
|
|
A court denied one request in 1993, saying his psychiatric evaluations showed evidence of sadism and necrophilia.
|
|
If her female characters had ever seemed to lack agency, here was the compelling context: male sadism.
|
|
The Handmaiden had all your trademarks: sadism, masochism, revenge, love in defiance of a taboo, murder, and suicide.
|
|
" Lambert's nephew, by contrast, said that restoring his treatment would be "pure sadism by the medical-judicial system.
|
|
Harris is always nimble and flippantly funny, very good at capturing Olaf's dismissive sarcasm and rather casual sadism.
|
|
And a lot of people are expressing it the way he does, with sadism and racism and prejudice.
|
|
"Hostiles and Calamities" is a strange combination of slapstick comedy and dark cynicism, lighthearted fun and horrific sadism.
|
|
By being 'too much'—a hallmark of trash culture—the excess of sadism and brutality in Mars Attacks!
|
|
There can be no room for sadism or score settling from officers operating on behalf of the state.
|
|
I remember looking into his eyes and realizing there was no emotion behind them, no sympathy just sadism.
|
|
"I think some people think horror is about sadism; it's about flinging intestines at the camera," he said.
|
|
Extreme sadism — taking pleasure in others' pain — actually gets its own personality disorder, aptly named sadistic personality disorder.
|
|
But sadism and psychopathy are characteristics that can be separated from one another, even in seemingly normal people.
|
|
The online world is an interactive museum of humiliation, sadism, greed, bleak news, bad faith and gross memes.
|
|
My ecofetishist work with Sacred Sadism is more about embodying an experience with another consenting, sentient human being.
|
|
Laugh Back's first mistake is opening with a work that so efficiently blurs the difference between slapstick and sadism.
|
|
Her arc has not only emboldened her as a villain but as an empty, monstrous person driven by sadism.
|
|
All the sadism which the academic Left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back.
|
|
Certain moments drift into sadism (there's some ugly knife work), though this is also part of the genre handbook.
|
|
The first problem with today's carnival culture is that there's an ocean of sadism lurking just below the surface.
|
|
The hostility, aggression and/or sadism displayed by the perpetrator are intended to threaten the victim's sense of self.
|
|
"Service," then, comes off as a near celebration of sadism and cruelty, one that moves at the pace of molasses.
|
|
As a result, The Punisher forces us to philosophically question our own personal relationships with power, abuse, sadism, and terror.
|
|
Negan felt it was his role to rein Simon in, and use his cruelty and sadism toward more productive ends.
|
|
"General bitter taste preferences emerged as a robust predictor for Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and everyday sadism," the study's authors write.
|
|
This streak of sadism, the other face of Trump's insecurity and cowardice, was evident in the way Tillerson was terminated.
|
|
"It looks at the masochism, the sadism within it," said Mr. Fernandes, a graduate of the Whitney's Independent Study Program.
|
|
For Alexander, it's merely having a wife he can order about with minimal fuss, and perhaps a bit of sadism.
|
|
If Mr. Ostlund lacks Mr. Haneke's rigor and Mr. von Trier's sadism, he at least has a sense of humor.
|
|
Inbox Sadism, not Sport, in Stabbing of Bulls To the Sports Editor: Re "A God of the Ring Made Human," Feb.
|
|
The Purge: Anarchy (2014) took viewers out into city to get a better gauge of the widespread sadism sweeping the nation.
|
|
It is not sadism, though sadistic individuals may flock to occupy positions of power that permit them to indulge their urges.
|
|
The leading victim of all of this sadism is Bibiana Julian, who was already given the Spicy Latina edit last week.
|
|
That's especially true of Reacher's bone-crunching sadism, which he rains down on opponents with the wrath of a vengeful patriarch.
|
|
And you start to walk into dangerous territory when you try to link distress in childhood with sadism later in life.
|
|
This isn't about sadism, it's about acknowledging the un-cute effects that humans have on animals we happily objectify and anthropomorphize.
|
|
His lawyers said in court that the claim was based on his client's struggles with narcissism, sexual sadism and substance abuse.
|
|
But when characters are as stupid as the visitors in "Midsommar," it only encourages your sadism, which is presumably the point.
|
|
This week, we're talking to conceptual artist and Sacred Sadism co-founder Genevieve Belleveau about her experiences of ecosexuality and ecofetishism.
|
|
Her Aunt Lydia is a fascinating amalgam of contradictions — glimpses of sympathy and true belief amid blatant hypocrisy, sadism and condescension.
|
|
The colonists could not stand the idea of rival predators and shot wolves for fur, out of sadism and sheer arrogance.
|
|
This was never a feel-good show to begin with, but season 1 attempted to balance its sadism with bursts of entertainment.
|
|
Mostly, London Has Fallen relies on gratuitous violence and sadism to break up the tedium, but even the kills get old eventually.
|
|
There are only a few more stories of disastrous dates here; it's just one part of a larger project about human sadism.
|
|
And his refusal to back Article 5 wasn't pure sadism — it was a bid to compel them to ramp up their spending.
|
|
The ban is undiluted sadism; its only purpose is to give a sense of comfort to some by enacting cruelty on others.
|
|
If a psychopath is motivated by sadism, like the infamous Vampire of Dusseldorf, Peter Kurten, then you'll get a sadistic, murdering psychopath.
|
|
If someone has a Dark Tetrad personality type, it means they can have any of the following traits: sadism, psychopathy, narcissism, or Machiavellianism.
|
|
The hosts have been designed so that they can't harm the guests; so these are acts of pure sadism, without risk of reprisal.
|
|
Marianne is surrounded by monstrous sadists with no discernible personality traits beyond their sadism, the better to put Connell's earnest sweetness into contrast.
|
|
Well, maybe some of these stalkers find real injuries to be attractive, but sadism is not a part of the cast fetish itself.
|
|
Women also report more frequent sadism fantasies, which flies in the face of the stereotype that giving pain is a predominantly male interest.
|
|
In defense of its use here, I believe that Mr. Cosmatos treats the horrific events with sincere gravity and without male-gaze sadism.
|
|
It can be exasperating and it also stokes your sadism, particularly when Vivi's helplessness (she escapes in flip-flops) feels like a contrivance.
|
|
Some have suggested that the dark personality triad — narcissism, psychopathy, and Machianvellianism (manipulativeness) — could use the addition of sadism and become a tetrad.
|
|
It develops, by stealthy degrees (warning: spoilers ahead), that they are both cut from a similar, deceptively silky cloth of misogyny and sadism.
|
|
He brought to neon his deadpan facility with word games, imbued with his own special sense of sadism and desire to provoke discomfort.
|
|
But there is something ever so slightly dishonest about this character, something false about the boundaries drawn around his sadism and his rage.
|
|
The idea of injustice is conveyed, but in a sexualized image that, with its overtones of sadism, reads uncomfortably in the #MeToo present.
|
|
Even Mother Teresa was, in actuality, far from a saint: she had an unsettling philosophy of pain and suffering that bordered on sadism.
|
|
"The Belko Experiment" is a grisly, sick-making exercise in sadism that tries to camouflage its base venality in a thought-experiment plot.
|
|
In scene after horrific scene, it becomes clear he still has an awful lot of anti-android sadism to get out of his system.
|
|
By the time Age of Extinction came around, I was practically yelling at audiences for buying tickets and perpetuating this cycle of cinematic sadism.
|
|
When the bows of the string section, for example, pierced the air around them, it felt like a visual echo of the prison's sadism.
|
|
Even the Sparrow's good intentions became vile in their own way, suspect and typically written off as a mere rationalization for his purported sadism.
|
|
So now that Negan believes Sherry was killed by zombies, it seems inexplicable that he's keeping Dwight around for any other purpose than sadism.
|
|
While it's nearly impossible to pin down a singular message from the political Pepes, the general feeling was one of trolling sadism and mischief.
|
|
Mengele, who alternates displays of avuncular concern with chilling sadism, seems to take pleasure in watching what effect separation will have on the sisters.
|
|
Astrid vividly recounts the sadism of her father, who, among other cruelties, demanded that his children finish every bit of food on their plates.
|
|
Jutting's lawyers argued that he suffered from a debilitating combination of mental problems -- alcohol and cocaine addiction, narcissistic personality disorder and sexual sadism disorder.
|
|
This Scarpia's sadism is more courtly than glowering; some more supple singing from Mr. Sgura in the second act gave intriguing glimpses of smugness.
|
|
He presents the jokey, bored sadism of a group of ex-Abu Ghraib military personnel as they casually torment some poor sap in California.
|
|
Both the sadism and masochism here is very raw — but pain and pleasure mingle in ways that never cease to be surprising or poetic.
|
|
The Nazis were pioneers of musical sadism, although loudspeakers were apparently deployed more to drown out the screams of victims than to torture them.
|
|
A 2014 review of reports of "Halloween sadism" found no children had died or been seriously injured from purported Halloween poisonings or planted razors.
|
|
But as he takes more and more power, his vulnerability is replaced by a deeply disturbing sadism, and the audience's laughter slowly fades away.
|
|
Fantasies of freedom and escape embedded in materialism, egomania, sadism and masochism, nihilism, the reverence of criminality and insanity and the ecstasy of the onanist.
|
|
In a separate study that year, researchers found that people who troll demonstrated a strong link to personality traits of sadism, narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
|
|
It has Murphy's gleeful sadism in spades, but none of his manic camp energy; it has his treacly didacticism, but none of his genuine emotion.
|
|
Morgan brings a mix of charisma and absolute ruthlessness to the role, as well as the cheerful sadism that Negan possessed on the printed page.
|
|
Jutting's lawyers argued that he suffered from a debilitating combination of mental problems -- alcohol and cocaine addiction, a narcissistic personality and a sexual sadism disorder.
|
|
People took sexual pleasure from inflicting pain before Sade sacrificed his name to sadism, and others loved enduring it before there was a Sacher-Masoch.
|
|
But it wasn't just MacMillan's subject matter, which could include rape ("The Invitation"), incest ("My Brother, My Sisters") and sexual sadism ("Mayerling"), that bothered critics.
|
|
Sacred Sadism is about taking BDSM out of the dungeon and bringing it into the garden and making it feel less potentially seedy or scary.
|
|
If I'm doing a BDSM scene in the ecofetishist or Sacred Sadism style, I'll be the master gardener, and the slave may be the sapling.
|
|
After all, it is true that Nazis perpetrated widespread and extreme acts of sadism and torture—and even incidents of cruel 'games'—against their victims.
|
|
After all, it is true that Nazis perpetrated widespread and extreme acts of sadism and torture – and even incidents of cruel "games" – against their victims.
|
|
BDSM, short for bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism, is a consensual sexual dynamic in which people play with power through different sexual acts.
|
|
Whatever they do, there's no denying it's a soul-crushing exercise in boredom with just a sprinkle of exploitation and a dash of voyeuristic sadism.
|
|
Okay, the hounds get a nice meal (though one that might give them indigestion), but Ramsay ultimately finds himself the final victim of his own sadism.
|
|
Through the character of Mony Vibescu, Apollinaire explored all manner of non-normative sexual activity, from sadism, masochism, scatophilia, and pedophilia, to group sex and homosexuality.
|
|
After seeing all of this sadism, let's hope it exists to show the brutal ends people are willing to go to for their religions and gods.
|
|
It's hard to process how anyone could treat another living being with such barbaric sadism, but Adam Gettrick (Derrick Riddell) is frighteningly sick in the head.
|
|
Wealth and success are admired in America, but the economic sadism that Donald Trump and his surrogates brag about has always been despised, for good reason.
|
|
In 1993, he was denied conditional release because he continued to show signs of sadism and necrophilia, psychiatric diagnoses that helped secure his acquittal in 1981.
|
|
Instead of thrilling to descriptions of panic and descents into sadism, the public today must content itself with stories of ice-bucket plunges and collaborative videogames.
|
|
It's what's known as a kink collective, where Ms. Taillor runs bondage workshops and other fetish events for the B.D.S.M. (bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism) community.
|
|
I can only assume that he chose to read such a large volume, not that you had assigned them, or I would accuse you of sadism.
|
|
Instead of telling him that I was not entertained by sadism against women, I encouraged him to write another book, because clearly he had a gift.
|
|
An economical, 78-minute running time keeps the gore and sadism at manageable levels, and a fishhook ending hammers home the movie's "What price brotherhood?" theme.
|
|
He had the sadism of the Joker we know, but there was none of the gleeful absurdity, which would have been welcome after 90 minutes of miserabilism.
|
|
This is a painful story about the human cost of oppressive religious regimes, and the horror of a system that allows bullies to mask sadism as piety.
|
|
There are still laws on the books in many states that prevent kink and BDSM—an acronym for Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism—from being practiced openly.
|
|
There is no "12 Years a Slave" brutality, no sadism à la "The Revenant," nothing as unremittingly frenetic as "Mad Max: Fury Road" — at least not yet.
|
|
We learn of his sadism: A chilling bedroom scene involving duct tape, scissors and a would-be sugar daddy contains a sublime mix of comedy and terror.
|
|
The spectacle of loquacious sadism situates the audience as empathetic with distance, never siding entirely with any one character but relishing the battle for its own sake.
|
|
"Aunt Lydia is a fascinating amalgam of contradictions — glimpses of sympathy and true belief amid blatant hypocrisy, sadism and condescension," Genevieve Valentine wrote in her Times recap.
|
|
But it just so happened that at the very moment "socially accepted sadism" — good phrase, that — was diminishing, economic instability and inequality were increasing, thanks to globalization.
|
|
So the geeks built a chaos machine that ginned up a world of socially acceptable sadism, and Marantz dived into the toxic stew to chronicle the scene.
|
|
She talks about how a childhood love affair with a birch tree led to Sacred Sadism, an art project and brand that incorporates plants into BDSM equipment.
|
|
Those people don't generally like to put it so bluntly, of course, and so will couch their sadism in terms of tradition, heritage and long-held habit.
|
|
And for my money, nothing fits that bill than 1990's Home Alone, a heartwarming tale of neglectful parenting, budding sadism, and the true meaning of Christmas.
|
|
Using the names "evilmind" and "666devil", he then distributed the images on "hurt core" websites, hidden forums devoted to discussing rape, murder, sadism, torture, paedophilia, blackmail and degradation.
|
|
The defense has argued that Jutting suffers from cocaine and alcohol abuse and personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism which impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
And in Honduras, one of the deadliest places to be a woman, a writer for our Opinion section investigated the sadism that has migrants running for the border.
|
|
Without resorting to graphic imagery or replicating the sadism of its villains, the movie paints a credible, if unabashedly cartoonish, picture of the workings of an evil system.
|
|
His ex-colleague, a violent sociopath named Rorschach, investigates his death, and in doing so uncovers a history of sordid secrets and betrayals including rape, sadism and murder.
|
|
His movies contain violence, sometimes of the grisly kind, but he doesn't go for the constant semiautomatic, conviction-free sadism that distinguishes the "Saw" franchise and other movies.
|
|
If their husbands proved unsatisfactory slave owners in their eyes, the women might petition for the right to manage their "property" themselves, which they did, with imaginative sadism.
|
|
Latham told the Hong Kong court that Jutting suffered from recognized disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse on top of his other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism.
|
|
A certain casual sadism has always been crucial to The Sims appeal, as anyone who dragged their surrogate digital selves into a swimming pool and deleted the ladder understands.
|
|
Jutting's defence team had previously argued that cocaine and alcohol abuse, as well as personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, had impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
Latham told the Hong Kong court that Jutting suffered from recognised disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse on top of his other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism.
|
|
Jutting's defense team had previously argued that cocaine and alcohol abuse, as well as personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, had impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
It helps, too, if you ignore the woman-in-peril clichés and sadism and just read "Unsane" as a self-aware riff on the relationship between critics and creators.
|
|
Yet the atmosphere of dread that Mr. Fukada tends with such ruthless precision — and more than a little sadism — depends not on creepy camera moves or other visual trickery.
|
|
There's also a troll worst-case scenario: A 2014 study found that trolling was associated with psychopathy, Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive people) and, most strongly, with sadism.
|
|
Within a matter of days, the jihadist menace that shocked the world for years with its pathological sadism will lose its final strongholds within the Syrian city of Raqqa.
|
|
The power games Boesman and Lena play with each other, fighting over their few prerogatives of wine and shelter, obviously recapitulated the greed and sadism of their white oppressors.
|
|
If it weren't so busy slathering sadism, garish color schemes and played-out rapid-fire editing on the screen, "Polar" might make for a decent satire of corporate America.
|
|
Most guys respect women, some guys don't, but never have I heard anyone use your particularly disgusting brand of sadism that refers to women as objects and not people.
|
|
Joffrey & Sadism in "Garden Of Bones" Season 2, episode 4 As King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) becomes increasing more cruel, his uncle Tyrion sends two sex workers to his nephew's room.
|
|
BDSM stands for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (yes, the D and S are doing double duty), and spanking has all aspects of the above.
|
|
But that barely scratches the surface of a whiplash-inducing series of plot twists, touching on torture, old-school porn, sadism, a mental hospital, and a ton of graphic sex.
|
|
Burton and Gems liberally ladle on the poetic death and sadism, to the point where we become painfully aware of the genre's reliance on vicious displays and lack of empathy.
|
|
Come for the indefatigably Bond-worthy Idris Elba as Bloom's own Atticus Finch and stay for a secondhand glimpse of Tobey Maguire's latent sadism via a cannily diabolical Michael Cera.
|
|
And I'm engaged with the issues it wants to explore, about how video games expose our darker impulses, and how increasingly realistic games start to feel like invitations to sadism.
|
|
After multiple encounters with bands of survivors prone to violence and mistrust, "Swear" is a reminder that somewhere beneath all its recent sadism, The Walking Dead still has a heart.
|
|
I run a conceptual art project and brand with my husband called Sacred Sadism, which replaces the traditional accoutrements of BDSM—the whips and leather—with plants and ecological elements.
|
|
Learning Lisa's perspective for the first time, and being confronted with instance after instance of her father's sadism, readers may find themselves reeling, thinking: What is wrong with this man?
|
|
He was quoted in a U.S. News and World Report article titled "Temperament Tantrum," saying that President Trump has malignant narcissism, which is characterized by grandiosity, sadism and antisocial behavior.
|
|
The internet turns out to be a wonderland for people with a cluster of really negative personality traits called the "Dark Tetrad": narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, and ruthless self-interest (Machiavellianism).
|
|
Lesaca's research noted a move away from narratives of hopeful state-building and governance to the more sensational scenes of war and sadism for which the group first drew global attention.
|
|
Instead, as the martians blithely lay waste to our planet, it reveals that at the heart of the apocalyptic story is inherent sadism—reveling in vindictive destruction for its own sake.
|
|
It may seem like a sick form of sadism to give up two vices at the same time, but research indicates that smoking and drinking are bedfellows best evicted in tandem.
|
|
Mr. Thielen plays out the child endangerment angle throughout, building on the early unease with flashback-filler and some florid sadism that suggests the filmmakers share Anna's philosophy toward child care.
|
|
The defense has argued that Jutting's recognized disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse on top of other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
And now came descriptions of priests engaged in rape and child pornography for decades, using "whips, violence and sadism," and in one case joining together in a secret cabal of abusers.
|
|
In this age of censorship-free cable and streaming comedy, we've become used to shows that uncover and flaunt the sadism that always lurked beneath classic laugh fests of domestic dysfunction.
|
|
" [Long Beach Post] Judith Butler, the celebrity philosopher and longtime professor at U.C. Berkeley, talked about nonviolence, health care for all as an ethical concept and "the uninhibited satisfactions of sadism.
|
|
The writers have cut down Carl in his prime, a break from the comics with no discernible rationale apart from a streak of moral sadism, determinedly quashing any flickers of hope.
|
|
It's not just that Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his sadism have dominated a plot line that has often felt listless and stalled out except for occasional gratuitous acts of violence.
|
|
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — Up a flight of stairs and tucked into an inconspicuous corner of kurimanzutto's compound, there's an affectionate shrine to sadism, masochism, and contradiction.
|
|
Despite this terrible crime, Joel Best, a professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware has been warning people not to worry about the alleged phenomenon he calls "Halloween Sadism" for decades.
|
|
It is a moment of pure poetry, certainly, but hold the glass to your nose and breathe in, sniff deeply and detect the notes of something else deep in its bouquet: Sadism.
|
|
Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal has a good insight into what makes Trump's response to the Khans so egregious: What makes Mr. Trump's remarks so foul is their undisguised sadism.
|
|
"In my opinion, Ramsay has sexual sadism disorder along with sadistic personality disorder...since he demonstrates marked pleasure and complete lack of remorse from the suffering of others," Honda told Business Insider.
|
|
Born in 19351, Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade — a name synonymous with cruel sex, enshrined in the very concept of "sadism" — was practically erased from cultural memory throughout the 232s.
|
|
Conservative politics in general and the Republican Party in particular have always been a pretty obvious grift; in his atavistic sadism and greed, Trump represents more of an apotheosis than a reckoning.
|
|
Until that day comes, we cannot be surprised that, with no prospect of any positive change, a vocal plurality of our fellow citizens will continue to be seduced by the consolations of sadism.
|
|
And she was busy, preparing two volumes of her notebooks from the 1960s and a graphic novel called "Man Into Wolf," whose title comes from a 1948 book about sadism, masochism and werewolves.
|
|
If "Parks" was a liberal fantasia, "The Good Place" is a dystopian mindfork: it's a comedy about the quest to be moral even when the truth gets bent, bullies thrive, and sadism triumphs.
|
|
Cusick, however, makes clear that the loud-music tactic displays a chilling degree of casual sadism: the choice of songs seems designed to amuse the captors as much as to nauseate the captives.
|
|
And then there is the life and work of the studio in Montparnasse where Giacometti made his sitters pose for days at a time: a terrain of sadism, despair, but also total commitment.
|
|
For Mallory and Eric, another couple I met through the website FetLife, when one partner wouldn't budge on his resistance to her interest in sadism, the two made their marriage work through polyamory.
|
|
But the midseason finale reinforced the casual sadism that has become so prevalent within this world, to the point where zombie-inflicted deaths -- now few and far between -- would represent something of a relief.
|
|
There are multiple tales of drug debt–related kidnapping, sexual violence, and torture, sometimes carried out by specialist drug debt enforcers, with the level of sadism usually rising with the amount of money owed.
|
|
And right there, that's the Jurassic Park game I want: the dark comedy and sadism of a RollerCoaster Tycoon game combined with the beauty and awe of seeing those dinosaurs roaming a gorgeous park.
|
|
In their 2014 study, Buckels and her co-authors did note a strong association between people who engaged in trolling and malevolent personality traits, particularly Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism, in particular, she says.
|
|
According to a 2012 New York Times article, more and more psychologists are identifying " callous-unemotional" children who might be displaying early signs of psychopathy ranging from out-and-out sadism to small manipulations.
|
|
The real world is complicated, sure, but Hunters is at its best when it pretends that it isn't, when the characters are unleashed to enact gleeful sadism on men and women who deserve it.
|
|
When Eden and Isaac choose to die for each other, their torturous execution — they are weighed down with chains and thrown into a swimming pool to drown — feels like more of The Handmaid's Tale's sadism.
|
|
Bondage, the sex act of restraining one's partner and all the pleasurable activities that come with it, is part of the basic foundation of kink and BDSM (which stands for Bondage, Domination, Sadism, and Masochism).
|
|
Rattled by the gratuitous sadism he's just witnessed, Eugene tells the women of Negan's harem he's seen through their ruse to try to kill Negan and refuses to let them have the pill he made.
|
|
The truth is that BDSM — which includes bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism — is an à-la-carte menu of options for expanding your sex life, not a prix-fixe meal.
|
|
Described in the press as a "pop surrealist," Ryden is a Jeff Koons type, with a touch of Margaret Keane ("Big Eyes") and maybe a soupçon of the "outsider artist" Henry Darger, minus the sadism.
|
|
Individuals involved in bondage, discipline, sadism, and/or masochism (BDSM) tend to come off as sexual deviants to the rest of us, whose natural predilections skew "vanilla," that is, free of fetishes and/or kinks.
|
|
The whole book is just panting with the desire to shock — but because all the grotesquery and the sadism isn't emotionally grounded in a psychologically coherent character or set of ideas, the shock doesn't land.
|
|
I read her sadism cropping up as less because of anything that happens in her connection with Character Actor Superstar John Ortiz and more because she hates herself for giving in to emotional connection at all.
|
|
As a boy, he says, he had masochism forced on him through the catechism; as a man, he finds that his education lingers, leading him to view its reciprocal, sadism, as the dark heart of society.
|
|
Saito has sought repeatedly to be released from the hospital, according to the AP. A court denied his request for conditional release in 1993, finding that he continued to exhibit evidence of sexual sadism and necrophilia.
|
|
As he grew older, the middle brother exhibited a distinct sadism and was once alleged to have tied Mohammed to a bed by his wrists and ankles and beaten him for two hours with a broomstick.
|
|
Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a teenage deserter from the German army whose sadism would eventually earn him the nickname of the Executioner of Emsland, the movie picks up two weeks before the end of the war.
|
|
Mr. Ebert's other role — a police officer whose quasi-sexual sadism is barely more than a cliché — departs from the "Godot" template, and from Ms. Nwandu's general interest in examining real humans despite the surreal setting.
|
|
Hunters' scenes of implausible revenge seem teleported in from an unbelievable fever dream of over-the-top Nazi sadism and Jewish heroics — and thanks to the overly saturated color palette, they often look that way, too.
|
|
This is, of course, self-evident information, but filmmakers tend to favor more brusque techniques to depict this (in the case of Nazis, movies too often love to revel in their sadism, titillating viewers with outrage).
|
|
We know there are segments of the bondage, dominance, sadism, and masochism scene who dabble in branding, and they've definitely got a better handle on consensual master/slave role-play than your average 50 Shades Darker viewer.
|
|
Like Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, Lanthimos likes to show characters inflicting painful wounds on themselves, but his is a decidedly sillier sadism: noses banged into walls, hands inserted into toasters, torture with tongue in cheek.
|
|
Although girls account for two-thirds of the victims, the latest study said online images or videos depicting boys, including very young children, often involve more severe abuse, such as sadism and other forms of sexual assault.
|
|
The author of the petition, a Maryland-based therapist named John Gartner, who specializes in personality disorders and depression, called Trump's disorder "Malignant Narcissism," which has four toxic components: narcissism, paranoia, anti-social personality disorder, and sadism.
|
|
They become some of the show's more frustrating parts because there's a strong element of torture porn involved in the framing of these scenes; they're deeply melodramatic and unforgiving in their displays of sadism, violence, and dehumanization.
|
|
Murder became a form of messaging, a spectacle of sadism — bodies hanging from bridges, chopped in pieces, deposited in public plazas, each grisly crime scene a warning, a way of saying the cartel's violence knew no limits.
|
|
According to Hammack, power exchange is at the core of many kinks, especially those under the BDSM or bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism, umbrella like choking, being tied up, or being hit consensually during sex.
|
|
He tried to train a goshawk, apparently because he thought if he could participate in the pure savagery and violence of a hunting bird of prey, he could satisfy his sadism in a morally chaste and sinless way.
|
|
But between ancient historians (an interesting moniker) exaggerated claims of Roman sadism and the Hollywood's sensational versions of semi-historical events, inaccuracies regarding Roman culture, and specifically Roman gladiator events, have become deeply entrenched in our cultural imagination.
|
|
Albee has unsparingly considered subjects outside the average theatergoer's comfort zone: the capacity for sadism and violence within American society; the fluidness of human identity; the dangerous irrationality of sexual attraction and, always, the irrefutable presence of death.
|
|
In other words, the sadism of the guards and the submissiveness of the prisoners in the experiment didn't reveal the hidden darkness of the human soul, so much as the willingness of college students to please a professor.
|
|
Crucifixion and torture, Episodes 230, 28, 29, 210, 93, 29 If you don't share Ramsay's taste for sadism, skip his slicing, dicing and psychosexual mutilation of Theon, mostly while the poor devil is strapped to a saltire cross.
|
|
His defence has argued that the former Cambridge University graduate had recognised disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse on top of his other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, which impaired his ability to control his behaviour.
|
|
Joel Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware who literally wrote the book on this, was a co-author of a study in 1985 that examined cases of "Halloween sadism": episodes like Mrs.
|
|
Many, perhaps most of us, are willing to enjoy paintings of women by Pablo Picasso notwithstanding his obvious sadism; or by Gustave Courbet, allowing for his frankly salacious eroticism; or by Paul Cézanne, for their oddly gawky formal qualities.
|
|
Her video for "John Wayne" worships American sadism, and her Pepsi-sponsored Super Bowl halftime show mesmerized with red-and-blue drones swirling in the sky and a rendition of "This Land" that seemed to invite mindless coming-together.
|
|
Describing the Romans as barbaric may seem apt, given their predilection for extreme violence and torture as a form of entertainment, but some of the ghastlier stories of Roman sadism appear to have been inflated by anti-Roman historians.
|
|
But, even reading White's fiercely disabused history of the period, one can still be astonished by the degree to which liberal institutions worked to curb the worst social sadism that, until then, had been a commonplace of human history.
|
|
Jutting, the grandson of a British policeman in Hong Kong and a local Chinese woman, had argued cocaine and alcohol disorders as well as personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism had impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
If any arc on The Walking Dead was going to tilt Morgan's pacifism into a resolve to kill and keep killing, it was always going to be the Negan arc, with its all-encompassing cloud of violence and sadism.
|
|
For the better part of three decades, the killer doll known as Chucky has been the smiling, plastic patron saint of sadism—a literal metaphor for killer consumerism standing tall among the distinctly American ranks of cult-horror cretins.
|
|
The fact that your brother-in-law seems encouraged by your "obvious discomfort" tells me that he knows you don't want his attention, that he's shamed by your rejection and he deals with this shame by resorting to sadism.
|
|
Although the Negan plot, having originated in the comics, was eagerly anticipated, it has presented challenges for the show -- pushing it farther into a brand of sadism that goes well beyond anything the zombies have inflicted in quite a long time.
|
|
The writer knows full well how much embarrassing racial angst the choice will cause; it's impossible to view it as anything other than an act of slight sadism or capricious control—suddenly, the playwright's right there onstage, sticking out her tongue.
|
|
In short, The Walking Dead has abandoned many of its core themes and values — and yes, they have always existed, even in the show's lowest moments — in favor of the easy sadism of waiting for a man decide who to murder.
|
|
Most fitting for a Genet-like takedown is Trump's messy empire, expertly tailored by its maker to showcase late capitalism's ritualized sadism — from its pencil tower buildings and power neckties to his beauty contest carnivals and reality TV puppet shows.
|
|
Lawyers for Jutting, the grandson of a British policeman in Hong Kong and a Chinese woman, had previously argued that cocaine and alcohol abuse as well as personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism had impaired his ability to control his behaviour.
|
|
While the world of BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) has hit the mainstream, Mistress Couple – the headmistress of La Domaine Esemar, a BDSM training chateau in the Berkshires – tells PEOPLE that the way the franchise portrays the lifestyle is sometimes misleading.
|
|
Mistress Couple, who is the headmistress of La Domaine Esemar, a BDSM training chateau in the Berkshires, tells PEOPLE that sex toys are a large part of the BDSM (bondage, domination, sadism and masochism) practice – and are accessible for anyone who's interested.
|
|
Since child-molesters are often driven less by sexual impulses than by a need for intimacy or control—or by sadism—a man forced to take drugs that affect his body and self-image may respond with rage and become more dangerous.
|
|
The defense has called British experts in forensic psychiatry and psychology who have testified that Jutting has recognized disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse as well as other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, which impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
Of course, the most offensive part of it all is Stacey King, vacant of morals, the voice of sadism and evil itself, just as he would have done if he were watching murder itself come into the world all those years ago.
|
|
Before long, Brett is pressing one of his boots down on the neck of a handcuffed Latino suspect and tossing a near-naked Latina woman into a shower for an interrogation — a Mickey Spillane-style warm-up for the sadism to come.
|
|
Tonally, the episode feels unpleasantly sour and wrong for this young series, which is best when it goes light; it's a bummer watching another director attempt the kind of smiling sadism that not even Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino can always pull off.
|
|
Meanwhile, back in real life, an affable Disney Channel star like Jake Paul can unintentionally turn his neighborhood into a metaphorical war zone, and vicious criminal pranks get carried out with a lighthearted thoughtlessness that's almost scarier than the Calypso Twins' overt sadism.
|
|
At the series's lowest moments (like the penectomy/enslavement plot that takes place in what I started to think of as Fast-Forward Dungeon), it can feel as airless and acrid as "The Walking Dead," just another macho cable wallow in sadism.
|
|
When the show's relentless sadism is preordained, as it seems to be for the time being, there's no lasting tension, no real emotional conflict, and no brighter day in the morning that can make the violence of the present feel less exploitative.
|
|
Intimacy or generosity in White's work, whether it's in the mournful embrace of a couple in "Black Sorrow (Dolor Negro)" or the private blues performance of "Goodnight Irene," acts an alternative to the cruelty and sadism of political and economic realities faced by African Americans.
|
|
For Ji, the atrocities themselves, the savage excesses, the sadism and the infliction of pain were the intentional points of the exercise, whose perpetrators were encouraged in the belief that the more brutal they were, the more admirably "revolutionary" they could claim to be.
|
|
As a parasitic consciousness intent on destroying David (Dan Stevens), her performance is so fantastically unhinged that you never quite grasp the extent of Lenny's sadism or power – you can just imagine it, only to have her recalibrate your mind ahead of the next episode.
|
|
It's up to individual interpretation, though what unfolds in the last half hour—what happens to McB—is handled by Siegel with a delighted sadism, as the director has done the unthinkable by turning Clint Eastwood in his prime into a pathetic and repulsive villain.
|
|
The 21973-by-21972 1/2-foot graphite and pastel on paper drawing—titled The moral arc of history ideally bends towards justice but just as soon as not curves back around toward barbarism, sadism, and unrestrained chaos—shocked some of the library's black employees.
|
|
Latham had told the court on Monday that Jutting, who previously worked at Bank of America Corp, has recognised disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse on top of his other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, which impaired his ability to control his behaviour.
|
|
Several Instagram commenters pointed out that, in a country where an estimated 43 million people live below the poverty line and 6.4 million children live with food insecurity, flaunting ostentatious wealth at least partially supported by taxpayer money goes beyond tackiness and approaches sadism.
|
|
Latham had told the court on Monday that Jutting, who previously worked at Bank of America Corp, has recognized disorders from cocaine and alcohol abuse on top of his other personality disorders of sexual sadism and narcissism, which impaired his ability to control his behavior.
|
|
Read more: The 5 most important moments of Game of Thrones' season 5, episode 43 Why it matters: The sadistic cap to a season characterized by sadism, "Mother's Mercy" sets in motion a very long revenge cycle and treats us to a hell of a season cliffhanger.
|
|
Not only is the transdimensional leather punisher, Pinhead, an all-time classic villain for the delicious flair of aristocratic sadism he brings to lashing anyone insensible enough to cross his path, Hellraiser is really a story about fucked-up family relationships replete with copious creeper-vibes.
|
|
" He continued to one of the elements that defined Jack was his sadism, and that he wanted to ensure that each scene was about more than just sex; it needed to be about Jack's insatiable quest to learn more about what Menzies called "the human condition.
|
|
It isn't in the service of any of the themes the film has struggled to express, it's just a meat-headed, brutal throwdown, with Batman dragging out the combat in the name of bloody-minded sadism, and Superman making the same grating mistakes over and over.
|
|
There is a pendulum swing of the lyrics which go from poetic sadism to melancholy heartache, and innocence, so cinematically I tried to convey the layers of kaleidoscopic emotions and inner workings of a woman who holds the power to seduce, but longs to not have to.
|
|
There are those who side with Donald Spoto in "The Dark Side of Genius" (1983), who had him pegged as a troubled man whose deepest creative energies were coupled with fear, lust, sadism and a thoroughly unwholesome interest in his actresses — a creep with a movie camera.
|
|
Add the ever-rising cost of frisée and pastured quail eggs and it's no wonder that many restaurants are experimenting with that unique form of sadism known as "small plate sharing," which amounts to offering a big group of hungry people something tiny to divvy up.
|
|
This time, the author focuses on his first year at school in the Syrian village of Ter Maaleh (the pleasures of learning Arabic, alas, are outweighed by the teacher's parochialism and sadism) and his father's vulnerabilities: as a husband, professional, and disillusioned citizen of an authoritarian regime.
|
|
Joker is an origin story set in Gotham in the 1980s that aims to once again add depth and sadism to a character who was a little underwhelming in his last big-screen appearance in 2016's Suicide Squad, where he was played by Jared Leto.
|
|
Almost one-third of both sexes saw B.D.S.M. (bondage, domination, sadism, masochism), and 26 percent of males and 73 percent of females watched videos with double penetration, described in the study as one or more penises or objects in a woman's anus and/or in her vagina.
|
|
Some politicians and media outlets have even begun to refer to them as the "287 Shades" defense, after the popular "20173 Shades of Grey" books and movies, which recount a woman's relationship with a man who introduces her to BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) sexual practices.
|
|
" In a typical day of broadcasting, Mr. Minow said, "You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons.
|
|
Puppy play enthusiasts are part of a larger community interested in bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism, collectively known as B.D.S.M. Participants primarily consider it a form of sexual role play, because they get to act like puppies — friendly, frisky, often nonverbal — and gain pleasure from doing so.
|
|
If you're poly (that is, open to being in loving relationships with multiple people at a time) or into BDSM (bondage, domination/submission, sadism/masochism—think explicit power play) or both, participate in a munch (a social, non-sexual gathering, usually with food, for like-minded folks).
|
|
Ajax's sadism during the painful transformation process knows no bounds and, at the end of the ordeal, he takes particular pleasure in introducing Wade to his new face, which resembles ground round (Vanessa's measured reaction to beholding it is, "It's a face ... I'd be happy to sit on.").
|
|
Researchers surveyed 1,040 adults in Quebec to see how often they desired or practiced eight sexual behaviors defined as outside the norm in the manual – fetishizing objects, wearing clothes from the opposite sex, spying on strangers, displaying genitals to unsuspecting strangers, rubbing against a stranger, pedophilia, masochism and sadism.
|
|
Beer is proof that God, should he exist—and if we're being truthful here, a dance music website probably isn't the best host for a lengthy discussion of the plausibility of theistic beings— hates us, or at least views humanity with a disdain that borders on total sadism.
|
|
"Hangmen" is a pastiche about the patriarchy, old and new, and when, at the end of the play, Mooney has to pay for his cat-and-mouse sadism, the violence and the casualness with which that violence is met are simply proof of Harry's right to keep his own counsel.
|
|
J.D. Vance loves the Marine Corps, which subjected him to a great deal of one-size-fits-all sadism and sent him to Iraq (as a public relations officer), with the same loyalty he has for his grandmother, who usually shows up in his stories armed and threatening to shoot someone.
|
|
Roupenian's monsters are showily vile, all grotesque imagery ("her eyes were blue marbles and her dried lips had pulled high up over her teeth"), and every line is slick with shame and sadism ("I saw how, despite the care I'd taken, the newest cuts were still raw, weeping through the bandages").
|
|
Dyanne Thorne, who starred in one of the most notorious sexploitation movies of the 1970s, "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" — a head-spinning mix of Nazi fetishism, sadism and female empowerment that is still talked about by grindhouse film aficionados as well as by more serious scholars — died on Jan.
|
|
Watered-down Funny Games echoes have since reverberated through the horror genre, translating to a litany of films in which the following basic plot plays out over and over: Happy, secure, upper-middle-class white people are invaded by anarchistic, violent criminals, usually without any apparent motive other than sadism.
|
|
No one but Lanthimos could adhere so loyally to the classical model of the tragic, yet the result treads close to monotony, and even to a kind of sorrowful sadism—on the whole, I'd rather not watch children, numb below the waist, crawling helplessly downstairs or being hauled along by their hair.
|
|
He comes flying through a wall, riding what looks to be a giant drill (or is it a modest rocket?) and proceeds to punch, karate chop, kick, toss in the air, and generally drub the miscreants in a way that would be purely cartoonish if not for a dose of mild sadism.
|
|
ERIC ORNER NEW YORK ⬥ Brush Up Your Shakespeare To the Editor: Adam Kirsch may be right, in his essay about whether a book with bad politics can be a good book, that there is an element of sadism in Dante's "Inferno" (Bookends, May 1), but he is wrong in his two assertions about Shakespeare.
|
|
Sanders cites a 1988 book called Fallen Angels: The Glamorous Lives and Tragic Deaths of Hollywood's Doomed Beauties, which reported, against her friends' recollections, that Tate had been considering a starring role in The Story of O. You can detect a flush of pathetic sadism in contemporary accounts of her life, pleasure in both causing pain and deriving pity.
|
|
But there's a huge gap between that and the kind of emotional sadism that Ive describes, or obtaining and mishandling the medical records of a rape victim, or fostering a work culture so awful that the widow of a new employee who committed suicide cites it as the cause, both of which apparently happened at Uber.
|
|
Certainly the review isn't arguing that viewers forgive Dahmer's crimes — which would be pointless anyway, considering he was killed by a fellow inmate less than three years into his prison sentence — but it does ask for a broad empathy for young men who internalize their peers' callousness and their mothers' neglect, and then externalize it as sadism.
|
|
Every life of a great jazz musician shows us both—social sadism beyond belief to be endured, but also social networks of support, filled with intimately collaborative and competitive relationships, artists both supporting and outdoing one another—the creation of the great cutting contest that E. H. Gombrich long ago identified as the core engine of artistic progress.
|
|
It's pretty much just an exercise in stylish visual sadism, with three men attempting to murder a rape victim to keep her quiet, and her hunting them down in a gory spree that involves gunshots, graphic gashes, and a finale where she blows a hole in her stark-naked former lover, then chases him all over a house liberally painted with their blood.
|
|
The docuseries does take some time to get the perspective from one of Bundy's only survivors Out of all the famous serial killers, it is perhaps Ted Bundy who is most disconcerting to listen to in conversation simply because of how easy he makes it for you to forget about the heinous sadism he inflicted upon dozens of female victims.
|
|
Episode 1 focuses on the emotional and physical torture Lydia puts the handmaids through in order to discourage any more rebellion, although her sadism at the gallows and her smugness as she handcuffs Alma (Nina Kiri) to a burning stovetop underscore how little the handmaids have to lose by fighting back — if it's pain either way, you might as well fight.
|
|
The listings took the reader to an alternate reality, in which the latent prurience and sadism of the nation's favorite shows were laid bare: 1:20083 — Boom Goes Lovergirl Hilarious hidden-camera action as insular nerds spend weeks being led up the garden path by sophisticated androids posing as attractive women, secretly wired to explode as soon as the word "love" is spoken.
|
|
In "The Red Parts," Nelson says of that unnamed man: With a kind of measured sadism whose roots continue to elude me, each Christmas my stepfather would wrap up the Chinese Yellow Pages (which my mother couldn't read) and blank VHS tapes (which she had no use for) to give to her as gifts, as if to remind her that he hated the holidays, hated gift-giving, and . . .
|
|
Yet: No reason to believe that G***n K***f (as he has identified his writing-self on his manuscripts) is hostile to you specifically, still less that he will act upon this hostility, though the prose works of G***n K***f you have seen are steeped in violence, cruelty, sadism, and he has hinted to you, in a previous exchange, not in this office in the basement of Lyman Hall but in the corridor outside your seminar room on the third floor, that he has done some things, impulsive things of which I am not proud, Pro-fes-sor. Pro-fes-sor.
|
|