Word: sadistical
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...Mutiny on the Bounty, which it resembles in its melodramatic plot and realistic detail, it will as certainly annoy those who feel that Magellan was the equal of Columbus, Marco Polo and Henry the Navigator. Author Ford melodramatizes the tiny, lame, yellow-skinned Portuguese explorer as a cold-blooded sadist whose only real genius lay in the grandiose scope of his malevolence...
...homosexual Countess Geschwitz helped her escape. In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end came in a sordid London attic. Impoverished Lulu combed the streets incessantly for men, made the mistake of bringing home Jack the Ripper. The orchestra reached a shuddering climax when the sadist disemboweled Lulu, concluded sombrely with Countess Geschwitz wailing over her "angel...
where Carrie (Gladys George) lives, little Paul Darnley (Jackie Moran), who has a sick mother and a sadist father, goes for sympathy which Carrie gives him. Forced to leave town, she returns after Paul is orphaned, takes him and a girl waif called Lady (Charlene Wyatt) to live in New York. Ten years later, a dry-cleaning business has made Carrie rich. Paul (John Howard) is a literary agent and Lady (Arline Judge) hopes to be his bride...
Batter Gehrig takes boyish pride in banging a baseball as far, and running around the bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees...
...admitted that "the News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind of a sadist or other fiend-although he wasn't sadist enough to put four bullets in his lover. . . . The fault lies partly with the newspapers and partly with the lawyers. Both are to blame...