Sentence examples for sadistic behavior from inspiring English sources

Sadistic behavior implies imagining the suffering of the other.

It includes sadistic behavior, a flatulent chimp and regurgitated food.

"You're not going to see a longstanding pattern of sadistic behavior from the parent," Dr. D'Urso said.

many of the actresses with whom Hitchcock worked provide Spoto with anecdotes about the director's often sadistic behavior.

Dr. Pinker argues that, over centuries, human beings have become less prone to kill and engage in torture and other cruel and sadistic behavior.

A 20th-century mask from Malawi of a British commissioner, locally notorious for his sadistic behavior, is more outlandish and sinister.

Look out for aggressive-sadistic behavior.

"He had an evil kind of sadistic demeanor to him.

The story, told from Virginia's eerily limited perspective, involves their parents' descent into sadistic and capricious behavior, an accident in Vivien's youth that left her unable to have children, and a plan that she had for her husband to impregnate Virginia instead.

Alternately sadistic and seductive, her manic behavior broadcasts her suicidal stalemate.

In "Blonde Faith," these include Lynne Hua, a Chinese actress who has come to terms with the ruthless compromises she makes to earn a living, and Hans Green, a restaurateur who confronts the prejudice of his fellow whites while taking an almost sadistic pleasure in correcting their racist behavior.