sadism

Julian Fellowes can save his show by offing the target of his sadism.

Obama processes his sadism to the point where he gets somewhat more acceptable.

The over-reaction, the lack of professionalism, the random sadism of this boggles the mind.

But the existence of sadism is a part of the human condition that is both universal and universally hard to acknowledge.

But we must confront our sadism to protect ourselves from it.

Sadism, as we know, played a prominent part in both the French and Russian revolutions.

I suspect that under many of our professed principles there lurk elements of unconscious sadism and masochism.

Thus in a great many quite famous works of art there will be found an element of sadism.

Sadism is for a long time restrained by fear, education or moral sentiments.

Sadism appears to be most often an effect of hereditary alcoholic blastophthoria.