And, somehow, when I crawled into bed every night with "A Little Life," when I read about all the great apartments and great parties and great meals, juxtaposed with the visceral and meticulous story of a child whose trust and body and soul are systematically and deliberately broken by sadists for their personal entertainment, I felt that I recognized something true, and I felt comforted.
Ikaruga in particular is a bullet hell shmup, which is like a regular shmup except designed by sadists for masochists and with the screen 90% filled with enemy bullets.
Inquisitors were not the loutish sadists of legend; for the most part they were smart career-lawyers.
Calling a halt to a loving union for fun may be a sport favoured by a small cluster of sadists but for most of us, hurting another person, particularly one you once loved, is really difficult to do.
He is a crafty sadist, but also, for all his tricks and provocations, a sincere one.
2.28am: If Paula Radcliffe was to peel off her own skin and hand it to a child-murdering sadist in return for the safety of 34 orphans, she couldn't be more brave than what she's doing here, according to Brendan Foster and Steve Cram in the television commentary box, who have never ever seen anything braver, nor can conceive of anything braver than her finishing ninth or tenth in this race.
One instance of this response is the claim that sadistic pleasure adds prudential value for the sadist but also lacks moral value and indeed has moral disvalue.
Would that not, for a sadist, be just the ticket?
He is brutal: "the sadist [with the] responsibility for coming up with new game variations building towards a maximum cruelty".
Their leader is SS Colonel Landa (a brilliant performance by Christoph Waltz), a suave, charismatic sadist charged with hunting for fugitive Jews.
