| I was miserable, and thinking that it was pure masochism to go on so long, I went to bed. |
| That ballet continues to enlist and attract thousands of young girls cannot be entirely due to false consciousness or masochism. |
| This is partly because he is compassionate about the suffering of ordinary Europeans, but also exasperated by their masochism and perverseness. |
| To want to reverse the trend and make them come to us smacks of a worrying masochism and loss of clear-headedness. |
| Freud worked out the idea of the primary masochism that can be turned against others to become sadism. |
| Definitions of pleasure are entirely relative, exampled most evidently by masochism or self-destructive tendencies. |
