Sentence examples for sadistic practice from inspiring English sources

This inadvertently sadistic practice puts the poor author at a statistical disadvantage.

That phrase outlived its sadistic practice and is in use today, adopted as a metaphor for "repeated annoyance intended to infuriate".

This sadistic practice is beginning to enter public consciousness in a number of states including Indiana and Florida and a more constructive debate is ensuing.

This sadistic practice is beginning to enter public consciousness in a number of states following a 2007 interstate sting operation prompted by state conservation officers in Alabama that revealed an entire network of wild animal traffickers.

All eight so far completed have confirmed shockingly sadistic practices.

A former Spanish Isis hostage has revealed more of the sadistic practices fighters inflicted on their captives as a form of entertainment.

In the article O'Hagan recalls the sadistic practices of his Glasgow childhood gang, culminating in the mysterious death of a three-year-old on a building site.

To my mind the sadistic practices of the Iraqi police state, and the more genocidal impulses -- now successfully held in check by American and British air patrols -- may be ample cause to indict Saddam as a war criminal, but they are not in themselves enough to launch an invasion.

Some members of Congress are now proposing measures that would add archaic and sadistic practices to the stacked deck for hunters in pursuit of Alaska's supposedly protected bears, coyotes, wolves, and other keystone species.

"It's despicable and repulsive to glorify trophy hunting and sadistic practices such as bow hunting and posing with dead bodies of animals as if hunting is an appealing and desirable thing to do," reads the petition.

I think, however, that antipathy to torture is a mainstream position, a clearly moral position, an objectively American position, and that - far from worrying about the opinion of Belgians - ending these warped and sadistic practices send the message that the mainstream American position is a moral one, instead of a depraved and demented one.