Word: sadisme
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...cruelty began on the very day of surrender. It flowered in a carnival of sadism on the 85-mile march from Bataan to San Fernando, a trek since known to all the prisoners as the "March of Death." Colonel Dyess, subsequently killed in a U.S. plane crash, described...
...just a scientist in sadism, with a job to do. He tosses a loaf of bread into the dirt among a crowd of starving men, not for the fun of it, but in order that they shall dive for it, fight, divide and degrade themselves...
TIME's Venom (Cont'd) Sirs: "Do other readers agree that an undertone of venom is TIME's chief lure, that sadism governs their reading habits?" (TIME, April...
Golenpaul's eye first fastened on Clifton Fadiman. They met on the bus. "I liked his voice," Golenpaul recalls. "He had culture, standing as a critic, was quick on his feet, and the show needed a little sadism anyway...
Enraged by the massacre of his country, Topolski has lacerated Fascism with numerous brilliantly satirical cartoons. Where Goya fought sadism in war with purposely sadistic drawings of actual fighting, Topolski expresses total war through images of Russian peasants, London women and children bombed out of their homes, soldiers worn out after battle, firemen exhausted after days & nights of blitz, crowds rushing for safety-pathetic rather than cruel facts...