How to Use sadomasochism in a Sentence

sadomasochism

noun

• Free inquiry must serve greater ends than studies of sadomasochism and pornography.
  — Benjamin Woodard, National Review, 17 Nov. 2022
• Mistress Ruby Ties It Together, which explores the bizarre world of sadomasochism.
  — M.j. Rose, WIRED, 17 July 2001
• The minds behind Dark Souls bring you an ultra-polished and somewhat simplified version of the game that brought distilled sadomasochism to consoles.
  — Popular Science, 13 Apr. 2020
• But the debate over whether the film is a statement of feminist empowerment or masochism — or whether Mr. Verhoeven has forged a new genre: screwball sadomasochism?
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 3 June 2016
• The themes of the record were hard-hitting with a distinct New York City flavor: drugs, sadomasochism, romantic jealousy and urban desperation.
  — David Chiu, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Well before the rise of punk and heavy metal, Anger was juxtaposing music with bikers, sadomasochism, occultism and Nazi imagery.
  — Hillel Italie, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023
• His 2016 Thelma, about a self-denying teenage lesbian, mixed sci-fi speculation with sadomasochism to reveal the source of a young girl’s power over her oppressors.
  — Armond White, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
• Blood, sadomasochism, handcuffs and prison cells — this was erotic torment underlined by swirling soul-rock arrangements.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
• Police also searched his phone and found visits to a sadomasochism fetish website with discussion threads on kidnapping fantasies.
  — Dawn Rhodes, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The website bills itself as a place for users to connect with other people interested in bondage, sadomasochism and more obscure sexual fetish fantasies.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 1 July 2017
• Two razor blades were nearby, as was a pornographic magazine depicting bondage and sadomasochism.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• The writers give us generous dollops of that duo's symbiotic sadomasochism in the early episodes, which the actors execute with their typical thrust-and-parry finesse.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• The narratives will converge, but not before traversing a louche landscape of sadomasochism and genital mutilation.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• Police also searched his phone and found visits to a sadomasochism fetish website with discussion threads on kidnapping fantasies, prosecutors have alleged.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2019
• A six-character piece for women, the play is a fascinating rococo experiment in power—the sadomasochism that, for Fassbinder, at least, defines most human interactions.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• At the event, which drew about eight hundred people, antiporn feminists distributed leaflets accusing the organizers of supporting sadomasochism, violence against women, and pedophilia.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Gayle Rubin and Pat Califia write articles calling all consensual acts, including sadomasochism, a form of women’s emancipation.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
• Their history of consensual acts of bondage, sadomasochism and domination adds an additional complication to the prosecution’s attempt to demonstrate abuse.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
• Federal authorities seized thousands of child pornographic images from Mandish’s computers, including hundreds of videos that included images of prepubescent children, bestiality, bondage, sadomasochism and rape, Maloney told the court.
  — oregonlive.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Is there a scientific explanation for this auditory sadomasochism?
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024