How To Use self-punishment In A Sentence
- No, to court death as secret self-punishment for failure as an officer wouldn't do. IN LOVE AND WAR
- The artist alternates between self-punishment and the exercise of power.
- Meanwhile, Rose, who at one point complains that she's not good at anything, is shown to have been really good at the kind of self-sacrifice that is really self-punishment. Lance Mannion:
- Suppressed aggression toward others became self-directed aggression and self-punishment.
- The austerity is admirable but the effect of this hair-shirted self-punishment is too often not the revelation of a new affective range, but a dutiful boredom.
- What buried secrets could possibly prompt this severe a self-punishment?
- Self-mutilation has to do with self-punishment.
- Pride, one might say, is the sin of humble people and humility is the punishment of proud people; and each reversal represents a kind of self-punishment.
- You would think that the hero blinding himself in self-punishment would be the low point of tragedy, but the story just gets bleaker.
- That mood of self-punishment, of Catholic mortification, was the one he found hardest to handle. GRACE