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• a  deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated

• There is only one American politician who sounds like this: "With my usual suicidal, masochistic tendencies, I spoke at the Detroit Economic Club last week and supported increased .
• That year's Lies by Sun Woo-Jang was a sado-masochistic romance between a married sculptor and a high-school girl half his age, a class-act film that fashioned poetry from .
• What seems to be the theme of the masochistic fantasies, she says, is the need to placate a strong woman.

• sadistic

News & Articles

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• Cooperstown's Ford wins state high jump title
  It's a masochistic event, one that usually ends in failure and one that is in direct conflict with gravity. But for Cooperstown junior Lucy Ford, the high jump pit at Middletown High must have seemed like heaven Saturday afternoon.
  June 10, 2013 - The Daily Star
• Bette's bravura breakthru
  It’s nearly 80 years since the gale force known as Bette Davis seized our attention as Mildred, the cheap Cockney slut who tortured masochistic Leslie Howard in OF HUMAN BONDAGE and became a star. “I wipe. My. Mouth! Ev-er-y time. I. Kiss. You. I. Wipe. My. Mouth!” Davis sneered, furiously taunting poor Howard, her staccato speech a stream of invective that still shocks, excites, mesmerizes ...
  June 6, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Serge Gainsbourg in Sydney Morning Herald
  I think I do have a masochistic streak, I'm sure about that,says Gainsbourg, who has been in rural Queensland filming Julie Bertucelli's The Tree. "To go into grief, painful emotions, is something very gratifying because it's very intense...
• Louis MacNeice in Telegraph.co.uk
  One pitch makes a lot of difference in a lot of situations and determines the outcome of the game. To throw 140-something pitches and one pitch plays a significant role in changing the momentum, who invented this? Some sado-masochistic person... Augie Garrido http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augie_Garrido&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEj7OInJsGxFCC8Ny0jcS3hSN2o9w InsideTexas.com (subscription) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://texas.scout.com/2/627393.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGisTlKLDPgH_Xf609lYJdIPxs0HA Mar 16, 2007 61693 82339 masochistic During one tiff with Clark, MacNeice writes: I used to have a masochistic instinct to agree with things people said against me but I have given up pretending to agree when I don't."