NOUN
- French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
How To Use Marquis de Sade In A Sentence
- Famous for giving his name to the perversion known as sadism, the Marquis de Sade was initially a doctor, who originated the phrase, "Does it hurt when I do this? Mark C. Miller: First Jobs of History's Greatest
- Hamilton and I've got to say the long passages where they sit around talking about sex ends up edging closer and closer to the long philosophical passages in the Marquis de Sade, where everyone's just sitting around naked talking and sipping hot chocolate with cantharides in it in preparation for the next bout of sexual excess. Cat Rambo
- Well the interesting thing about the Marquis de Sade of course, is that his world is littered with Cardinals and Priests and Abbes, so it's not completely unreligious.
- The novels of the Marquis de Sade deal with sexual perversion.
- No one ever had a better fix on the Marquis de Sade than Simone de Beauvoir, who called his erotic life "a combination of passionate sexual appetites with a basic emotional 'apartness'. A Divided Nature
- The eponyms are the French Marquis de Sade and the Austrian Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
- This resembles the deadening of the emotions paradoxically required for the exquisitely heightened sensate perception in the Marquis de Sade's novels.
- The Persecution and Assassination of Reality as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Snatchland Under the Direction of the Marquises d 'Elite, after that nearly-eponymous work by Peter Weiss about the Marquis de Sade's career as a dramaturgist among the crazies. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
- Logic suggests the 16th edition of the Heineken Cup will again be drenched in celebratory French champagne but, as in matchplay golf, the spirit of the Marquis de Sade is never far away. Heineken Cup: Welsh giants the best bet to stop the French juggernaut
- On occasion they face peril, if not great inconvenience: wind spouts, branchless trees, and imprisonment in geometrically structured environments that resemble Versailles tended to by Le Corbusier and the Marquis de Sade. James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection