self-immolation

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, these reporters can’t help but do what they do, so in love with their jobs, they press on, smiling at their own self-immolation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

All this comes on the heels of some questionable behavior and ill-advised alliances, among them: the divorce from Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson, hanging around with Jeffrey Epstein, and the self-immolation by TV interview in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

His death, captured in an iconic photo by American photographer Malcolm Browne, drew global attention to Vietnam — and to political self-immolation.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

At the site of his self-immolation, her comments resonated with the visiting Chinese: “The predicament of a country can only be resolved by the people of that country themselves.”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

Where, in literary history, can be found the parallel of such an offer of self-immolation?

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac