Sentence examples for As sadistic from inspiring English sources
It wasn't as sadistic as the broom-handled, sodomizing case of Louima in Brooklyn's 70th Pct.
Since I am not nearly as sadistic as the creators of "American Idol," all you really need to know is included in the handy list of survivors and lucky escapees below.
Only if you believe that portraying Native Americans as sadistic, rapacious savages is enlightened.
Most of Rome's enemies were as militaristic as the Romans, and, in our terms, as sadistic.
His subsequent pursuit of the criminals, in contrast, is treated as sadistic and irrational.
Focussing relentlessly on Mao's character and motivations, Dikötter confirms the man's reputation as sadistic, cowardly, callous, and vindictive.
In a large cast, there is also conspicuous support from John Hopkins as Ross's ultimate betrayer, Michael Feast as the sadistic Turkish governor, and Peter Polycarpou as a bombastic sheik.
Sometimes the manner of the finger breaking comes across as particularly sadistic; at others, as here, it is cruel but simply the way of the world.
Clips are cut together to ensure that this collection of personalities (apparently 23 in total) comes off as dangerous, sadistic, and bizarre as possible.
A third possible focus is on pleasure understood as a property of something bad such as a sadistic thought or act, rather than as an effect of something bad.
Spencer is neither as playfully sadistic with his characters nor as magical in his prose as Cheever, and his writerly skills are perhaps less dazzling than Updike's, but his narrative voice is zestful and unpredictable.
