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• n  someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others

• His most sustained stint was in the 40s at the off-Hollywood PRC, where, in six days on a few drab sets for $5,000, he made this uncompromisingly bleak tale of a sadist and a .
• This villain, as conceived by Nolan and his scriptwriter brother Jonathan and incarnated with chilling authority by Ledger, is not the elegant sadist of so many action films, nor .
• Also after the money is a thin-lipped sadist named Setenza (Lee Van Cleef).

• masochist

News & Articles

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• Game of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon on His Season-Three Finale Reveal
  [Spoilers ahead] Poor Theon Greyjoy. All season long on Game of Thrones, he's been in the hands of a sadist. "You've been wondering why you're here, where you are, who I am, and why I'm doing this to you," his torturer told him not so long ago, in episode six. ... More »
  June 10, 2013 - Vulture

Quotes

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• Helena Bonham Carter in msnbc.com
  I am playing lots of villains. It's horrible. Serial killer, sadist. But I think it's the age, you know. That's what you get over 40, maybe,Bonham Carter, 43, said in an interview.
• Joe Calzaghe in International Herald Tribune
  I just stepped out of the ring 15 minutes ago. Let me enjoy the fight now before I think about another fight,Calzaghe said. "What do you think I am, man, a sadist?"
• Michael Mukasey in ABC News
  I kind of hope they don't get it,Mukasey said after a speech at the London School of Economics. "Because many of them want to be martyrs, and it's kind of like the conversation : between the sadist and the masochist."