flagellation

How To Use flagellation In A Sentence

• Critics say it encourages flagellation and the use of the cilice - a belt tightened around the thigh with metal prongs pointing inwards which is used in some religious orders.
• The self-flagellation about our failure to act against evil is at the same time a form of self-flattery.
• A fat, stalwart, bacchant, boorish race they are, giving signs of anything but fasting and flagellation; and I know of nothing that would so dissipate the romance which invests monks and nuns in the eyes of some, like bringing a ship-load of them over to this country, and letting their admirers see and smell them. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
• PETA protests like this one often strike me as a kind of exhibitionist masochism more than anything else, similar to the self-flagellation seen in some religious groups. PETA WOMEN-AS-MEAT DEMONSTRATION » Sociological Images
• Due to the flagellation constraint, the cost of reproduction (in terms of the amount of time spent in an immotile stage) increases with increasing colony size.
• ` Most Eastern treatises divide aphrodisiacs into two different kinds; 1. the mechanical or natural, such as scarification, flagellation, etc; and 2. the medicinal or artificial. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
• A simple test of the big ego is the inability to take a joke, inability to take criticism, seeing everything as an insult to one's respect or "face" which must be protected at all costs (status game), every idea is to be taken very seriously and a profound dissatisfaction is felt and expressed when reality is unwilling to cooperate, either the lack of self-criticism (everything is the fault of others or society) or the opposite extreme, self-flagellation, which is just basically another kind of big-ego game, the holier-than-thou one, and an inability to see other people as anything else but the object of one's desires or an obstacle to them. Armed and Dangerous
• Self-flagellation is an annual tradition in Pampanga and other parts of the Philippines in which men whip themselves into a frenzy on Good Friday to atone for their sins. Boing Boing
• I believe the humility and self-flagellation is real, but also a very effective political tactic: a pre-emptive confession that defuses any accusations. The McCain Story - Swampland - TIME.com
• Those with more time go to Urbino, for the enigmatic little painting once called a flagellation, now identified as "The Dream of St. Jerome. A Piero Without Peer