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Example sentences for: sadism

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The piece is full of chilling anecdotes about Serbs' "gratuitous sadism" and indifference to Kosovar suffering.
You might call that "rain," but we don't . It provokes a mixture of sadism and sympathy from reporters, who proceed to turn the hapless flack into a human punching bag.
But otherwise there is some pleasant geometry, some mostly unremarkable portraits, some jazzy fashion shots that culminate in Helmut Newton's high-gloss simulated 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.
Adults, or at least most adults, recognize this as a species of black comedy, albeit one that expresses a real sadism on the part of the director.