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Example sentences for: sadism

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)--is terrifying not just because it's sadistic but also because its sadism is suffused with righteousness.
In so doing, he shows us that a great deal of sadism, animality, and outright lust can lurk behind people's anodyne professions that they just want to "uphold the law" or "maintain a level of decency."
Another reason the critics are letting Bloomfield get away with it: As the Truman Show also made clear this week, sadism makes for great television, and great television excuses everything.
But mostly the fascination stems from a kind of arm's-length sadism.
But even if all 1,500 were genuine victims, it would not remotely approach the kind of systematic sadism alleged by Finance Chairman William Roth Jr. and his fellow Republicans.