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self-torturing - definition and meaning
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I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families.
A sad day for bananafish 2010
I love this film because it really helps you see how self-torturing envy is, and how it can completely corrupt and destroy the soul.
Archive 2009-06-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
I love this film because it really helps you see how self-torturing envy is, and how it can completely corrupt and destroy the soul.
The "G" in Ode to Joy: Journal Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
It's been a while since anyone called him Bambi or compared him to the ambivalent, self-torturing Adlai Stevenson.
Turbulence Ahead 2008
And Bill Altreuter dealt with the peculiar self-torturing disciplines required of people who want to be good Catholics.
Interred with their bones 2005
And also I needed to confirm a few things that I've wanted to believe but for some self-torturing reason, i could let myself.
lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2005
He had been listening, as he now felt, to a sad and terrible story — an evil and cruel self-torturing and destroying story.
An American Tragedy 2004
I have always felt a sympathy for that tortured, self-torturing man who offered himself to his own soul as Buddha offered himself to the famished tiger.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
I have always felt a sympathy for that tortured, self-torturing man who offered himself to his own soul as Buddha offered himself to the famished tiger.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
I have always felt a sympathy for that tortured, self-torturing man who offered himself to his own soul as Buddha offered himself to the famished tiger.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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