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Example sentences for: sadism

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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.
The critical consensus on this romantic comedy: more sadism than laughs.
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.
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."
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.