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  • n  self-imposed distress

  • But to the masochistic (and largely female) millions who use movie houses as self-torture chambers, Susan Slade will come as a genuine treat for the tear ducts.
  • They must discipline their will to the self-torture of laboring lap after lap, mile after mile.
  • As aliens who have landed on a tony golf course, they observed that a set of clubs appeared to be "some kind of instruments of self-torture.

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