Sentence examples similar to self punishing from inspiring English sources
He is a creature of self-punishing disarray.
"Interstellar" shares a crucial artistic gene with "Whiplash" — namely, its self-punishing anti-hedonism.
He has not just a self-defeating intelligence but a self-punishing one.
The true believer has a self-punishing — and often solitary — regimen.
Throughout her life, McCullers exhibited the self-punishing solipsism and cruelty of the romantic.
Sobriety curbed his temper, but not his violent yearning for recognition or his self-punishing snobbery.
He was the most vexing kind of workaholic, the ascetic kind: hard-edged and self-punishing.
His family's connections could have helped him; instead he holds to his bleak job, not in penance -- that would be too lively -- but in a self-punishing indifference.
It seemed quixotic and self-punishing, especially now that she had such great alternatives as creating her own foundation, and supporting female empowerment globally.
For the spontaneously self-mocking and self-punishing, there's Alex Ross Perry's astonishingly original and inventive independent film, "The Color Wheel," which opens today at BAM Cinématek.
Ronny Valentine (Vince Vaughn), a jiving, silver-tongued Chicago salesman, and Nick Brannen Kevin Jamess), a self-punishing automotive genius, are business partners and best friends.
