sadism

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From Salon • Apr. 16, 2022

Sadism towards the audience aside, however, the main point of a season premiere on a highly-serialized show like Game of Thrones is to provide the heroes with motivation for their battles to come.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2019

But there is no reason to suspect Weismann of Sadism.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

The idea of the "Eternal Recurrence of all things"�to take the most terrible�is clearly but another instance of his intellectual Sadism.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

Sadism appears to be most often an effect of hereditary alcoholic blastophthoria.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste