Sentence examples for Slightly masochistic from inspiring English sources

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That looks slightly masochistic.

Sayle's account of Harriet's transformation is exhilarating and convincing enough to make you wish you too were in a slightly masochistic relationship with an air-headed ninja.

It's no great shakes, but a substantial number of American moviegoers — soft-hearted, slightly masochistic and largely abandoned by Hollywood — would like it if they found their way to it.

Whether this strange phenomenon stems from a prehistoric gene, or it's that we're slightly masochistic, is difficult to say.

He was happy that it took his writing in a new direction and would confound the attempts of the critics to pigeonhole him, and, with a slightly masochistic joy he looked forward to their "rage and contempt".

You wouldn't think of swimming in near-arctic temperatures as something that people do for fun on the regular, but a quick Google search reveals that 'iceberging' is actually a popular, if slightly masochistic, pastime.

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These images seem to be taken from something like amateur pornography, slightly sado-masochistic pornography, and the objects are bleeding so there's something to do with physical materiality, representation of a kind of... not an objectified female form but perhaps emancipated through its objectification.

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In "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye," Cagney, now middle-age and slightly paunchy, whips his companion (Barbara Payton) with a wet towel, and she falls into his embrace with a quaking, masochistic abandon.

It is impatient, masochistic-unlike the noise of Paris, where the shrill popping of high-pitched horns spread gaiety and slightly drunken good humor.

It seemed downright masochistic.

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