How To Use Self-punishment In A Sentence
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No, to court death as secret self-punishment for failure as an officer wouldn't do.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The artist alternates between self-punishment and the exercise of power.
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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:
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Suppressed aggression toward others became self-directed aggression and self-punishment.
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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.
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What buried secrets could possibly prompt this severe a self-punishment?
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Self-mutilation has to do with self-punishment.
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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.
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You would think that the hero blinding himself in self-punishment would be the low point of tragedy, but the story just gets bleaker.
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That mood of self-punishment, of Catholic mortification, was the one he found hardest to handle.
GRACE
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What looks like self-indulgence is actually self-punishment.
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It takes a lot of determined willpower to reset your mind to think more about self-nurturing and kindness than self-punishment and guilt.
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These forms of self-punishment, known as "mortification of the flesh," have been around for ages and are certainly not unique to Opus Dei.
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The need for self-punishment may need to be worked through in therapy.
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That mood of self-punishment, of Catholic mortification, was the one he found hardest to handle.
GRACE
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Elizabeth wandered the lane after having read Mr. Darcy's letter twice through, but again she returned to it, unable to refrain from self-punishment.
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Self-punishment is abated by observing other members modeling appropriate emotional responses to various experiences.
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We learn a lot about Sophie in that passage, about her rejection of her mother and about her tendency towards self-punishment and inflicting pain on herself.
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This is not self-punishment and has nothing to do with guilt or innocence.
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Suppressed aggression toward others became self-directed aggression and self-punishment.