Word: sadisme
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...Hannibal displays a disquieting streak of sadism that Harris' two previous novels involving Lecter largely avoided. In one of his many, rather portentous authorial asides, Harris states, "Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?" If Hannibal is the answer, we're in real trouble...
...sorrow seems to play little part in Jay's decision; sadism and selfishness are more like it. In between bouts of intense sexual nostalgia for another woman, he thinks, over and over, This is our last evening together, and she doesn't know. When a tender thought creeps in, he instantly stomps on it. Going upstairs to watch her sleep, he thinks, "I can make out your hair in the jumble of blankets and pillows. I stand looking at you. I wish you were someone else...
...Madison Guaranty, the savings and loan owned by James and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' Whitewater partners. If Hubbell knows something, especially about Hillary Clinton, Starr might yet be vindicated. But as Starr heads to his committee appearance this week, this latest move could also look like bug-eyed prosecutorial sadism. A senior White House aide just shrugged. "Dying stars always flare before they fade away." After the indictments were announced, Hubbell appeared briefly to say, "I do not know of any wrongdoing on behalf of the First Lady and President, and nothing the independent counsel...
This Freudian conceptual foundation, like the monochromatic form of Walker's figures, allows these racial archetypes to vacillate between positive space and negative space, between active role and passive role in this psychological struggle. On the subject of sadism and masochism, Freud wrote, "[M]asochism is nothing more than an extension of sadism turned round upon the subjects own self." To the extent that Walker's silhouettes of black girls swallowing their own hands or feces imply a masochistic tendency, they become completely interdependent with the sadistic acts being represented on other walls. These two extremes of suffering and cruelty...
...veterans who are here in protest," said Doctor, who spent the afternoon trying to counter the antiwar protest. "At least that have an idea what it means to enter in battle. I agree with them--I don't like killing either. But the U.S. needs to take care of sadism...