Words similar to sadism

Example sentences for: sadism

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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.
The critical consensus on this romantic comedy: more sadism than laughs.
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.
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.
The piece is full of chilling anecdotes about Serbs' "gratuitous sadism" and indifference to Kosovar suffering.