Word: sadistical
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...tells the story of a rich young rakehell named Hsi Men, of whom it was said that "unless they are concubines of the Prince of Hell himself, they belong to the harem of wealthy Hsi Men." Fretful because he is not ten men, something of a sadist (though a pleasant fellow at times), Hsi is figuratively said to enjoy "spending his nights among blossoms and willows." The details are put much more plainly...
...Pennsylvania in its birth was a planned society," Bates observes. To his mind Penn was a great political thinker, the Quaker Colony was democracy's brightest hope. While that prurient sadist and hypochondriac, Cotton Mather, was torturing old women for witchcraft in Massachusetts, Penn dismissed a charge of broomstick riding with the remark that there was no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks. Penn's incredibly dramatic-and in the end tragic-life has nowhere been better told...
Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b. Mrs. Pawle, blonde, voluptuous, thirtyish, nymphomaniac, is the wife of Alan's doctor, who is a lanky, cynical sadist. The scene of Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From...
There are only two possible candidates, 1) "Peacemaker" Chamberlain, and 2) that mad dog of Europe-that pathological sadist-Hitler...
...certainly plays the decisive role in Author Fisher's minor cases. A 200-pound English department head is a suppressed rakehell and sadist. Pompous little President Ledwidge launches a one-man anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife...