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self-torture

NOUN
  1. self-imposed distress

How To Use self-torture In A Sentence

  • Irene's subsequent self-torture echoes that of Rachel.
  • Critics carped, but there was something sweet in seeing so much self-torture finally resolved.
  • The author's confession is self-torture by man's dignity and conscience, is the loyalty to communism.
  • The self-torture gradually phased out as I undertook further reporting of business events.
  • In essence, it's another form of self-torture.
  • Very early on, Christians began using haircloth as an instrument of self-torture by wearing it directly against the skin, which rapidly would be rubbed raw.
  • We've always been a band that was into self-torture.
  • By conduct, again, is indicated the avoidance of the extreme called sensual gratification; by concentration, the avoidance of the extreme called self-torture. The Way of Purity. II. The Doctrine. Translated from the Visuddhi-Magga (chap. i.).
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