How To Use Self-flagellation In A Sentence
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The remainder is blighted by alternating self-flagellation, self-justification and unwarranted extrapolation.
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I mention these mistakes not so much to beat up on myself -- I haven't found self-flagellation a useful investment technique -- as to illustrate an important investment lesson.
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Asceticism and self-flagellation mortified the flesh.
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It shows them that even if their attempts at terror fail, they may still obtain an opportunity to propagandize from the largest stage in the world, while their captors undergo self-flagellation.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Problem with the KSM Trial
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GALLAGHER: Well, self-flagellation is an extreme form of self - denial, what they call mortification, and which, in fact, is not unknown to the Catholic religion, or indeed other religions that practice self-denial and that encourage self-denial, sacrifice, for one's own good.
CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2002
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It shows them that even if their attempts at terror fail, they may still obtain an opportunity to propagandize from the largest stage in the world, while their captors undergo self-flagellation.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Problem with the KSM Trial
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All presidents are human, and taking responsibility does not mean self-flagellation.
Dear President Bush,
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The self-flagellation about our failure to act against evil is at the same time a form of self-flattery.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Both the rhetoric of self-congratulation and self-flagellation have missed out how much Britain has changed since 1945.
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But while he peppered his press conferences with the odd spell of self-flagellation, claiming he was being selfish, few will grudge him his opportunity.
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Yet upward of a half dozen times a year, this phenomenon of self-flagellation is repeated in the nation's prisons.
Why Prisoners Riot
