It is actually a fantasy only vaguely based on the facts of the case--a distinctly postmodern fantasy insistently exploiting the paradox that De Sade is a victim of sadism as .
It's bad enough when a movie offers up atrocity scenes that would make the Nanking soldiers seem like Hannah Montana; it's repellent when the movie dresses up the sadism in a moral .
Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was .
Need Something To Do Thursday? When it comes to Schadenfreude, it can be tough to tell if the queasy feeling in your stomach is one of sadistic pleasure or a spasm of empathy. In the case of a flesh-reddening belly flop, hearing the smack of skin on water is pure sadism.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
June 13, 2013 - Boise Weekly
David Miliband in International Herald Tribune The first thing is to be clear about the sadism, and I use that word advisedly, that's going on,Miliband told BBC television, citing "people being tortured, people being beaten."
James Schlesinger in CNN There was sadism on the night shift at Abu Ghraib, sadism that was certainly not authorized,Schlesinger said. "It was kind of 'Animal House' on the night shift."