And the two laughed, a laugh that had more than a hint of sadistic cruelty in it.
Guttural voices boasted of past exploits--black deeds and sadistic cruelties that had marked the trail of the hordes sweeping over Europe from the windy Asiatic steppes.
Erich had that taut sadistic smile he gets when he wants to hit me.
When your twelve-years' advantage was spent in soaking up the wisdom of a race of sadistic dreamers gone paranoid, in a world whose thought-stream had already been muddied by one total war?
To postulate that a supreme being is omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving, and then to assume that he inflicts disease on his children as punishment for sin is a sadistic mental aberration.
The following morning, as we strode toward the car, we truly felt at home when we noticed the sadistic mailman of the previous year busily engaged with Marion.
Once again, the sadistic mailman crossed my mind, and I wondered how the Colorado rodent population would fare.
The observer was grinning widely now, a sadistic glimmer of pleasure seemed to sparkle in his eyes; I did not have to look at him directly; his luminous frame of mind pierced my unseeing stare.
I felt totally secure in my baldness only with my family and select individuals who neither balked nor poked sadistic mirth at my loss.
Here there was evidently a sexual sadistic impulse, for in 1541 (the year of Ralph Roister Doister) Udall was charged with unnatural crime and confessed his guilt before the Privy Council.
The victim of her sadistic passion was a girl she had adopted from a Home, but whom she half starved.
Many homosexual women, however, display sadistic tendencies in a more or less degree.
Sometimes the manifestations thus appearing in schools or wherever youths are congregated together are not truly homosexual, but exhibit a more or less brutal or even sadistic perversion of the immature sexual instinct.
Among the many symptoms manifested in compulsion neurosis, the most important are those produced by too powerfulsadistic tendencies, i.
They wanted spectacular victories, murderous situations in which they could lose themselves in vicarious sadistic thrills.
Put our people to useful endeavor, instead of sitting in front of their Telly sets, taking trank pills to put them in a happy daze and watching sadistic fracases to keep them in thrills, and their minds from their condition.
And increasingly, the Telly buff endorsed the moresadistic of the fictional and nonfictional programs presented him.
Up to my fifteenth year, when ejaculation of semen began, there was a strong sadistic coloring to my day-dreams.
As a rule the hair-despoiler is a pure fetichist, no element of sadistic pleasure entering into his feelings.
Nadine said, "Max, it took the human race ten thousand years to put even a temporary halt to the international war, now you want to bring it back for the sake of a sadistic Telly show.
First, lots of gore, lots of blood, lots of sadistic thrill.
No person with any moral feeling in him or her should be responsible for bringing children into the world with a possible sadistic heredity.
And finally comes the awful narrative of five murders committed by one sadistic woman.
This arbitrariness when imitated by his eunuch Euphrates becomes sadistic tyranny over prisoners given to his care.
Details of the torture to which Retoc subjected the beautiful Evalla were whispered over the planet and it was said the sadistic Retoc had taken photographs of the Queen in her agony to enjoy in later years.
He stooped to obey the order but the hatred remained on his face and when the hatchet was in his hands he made a last attempt to bluster: "The day may come when we'll refuse to tolerate any longer your sadistic displays of authority.
And Ragnarok was where a thousand untrained Earthmen--and women and children--were brutally marooned by a sadistic enemy.
When you were telling about the Nixon incident you referred to your husband's sadistic streak.
If there's a hell on Earth the sadistic bastards occupy it, and it's unscientific to feel anything but pity for them.
That would even explain his rage when he finally got his hands on her, if we remember the kind of sadistic human animal he was.
And I think he was also the kind of man who turns sadistic when he has a woman completely at his mercy.
Psychoanalysis also teaches us that such an early childhood impression contributes much to the disposition for a later sadisticdisplacement of the sexual aim.
In the promotion of sexual excitement through muscular activity we might recognize one of the sources of the sadistic impulse.
He who in the unconscious is an exhibitionist is at the same time a voyeur, he who suffers from sadistic feelings as a result of repression will also show another reinforcement of the symptoms from the source of masochistic tendencies.
Keep your love life out of business and keep thatsadistic streak under control.
In some cases force is employed only because the victim resists the act of violation, and here there is no question of sadism; but the rape is sadistic when the use of force is per se a sexual stimulus.
The court held that these acts had been performed under the influence of the sexual impulse, resulting from a sadistic tendency.
This is often associated with sadistic feelings, and this alike in men and in women.
Masochistic and sadisticmodes of sensibility are frequently associated in the same individual.
Sexual inclinations towards children are especially apt to be associated with sadistic acts.
About two years ago, a teacher of the pianoforte committed suicide in Berlin, because he had been accused of ill-treating children, apparently owing to a sadistic tendency.
Hence a schoolboy who has been punished might readily attributesadistic motives to his master; and might even make a definite accusation of this kind.
Whilst some regarded the matter as a joke, others expressed the suspicion that it was a case in which the rein had been given to sadistic tendencies.
Weird novel of a girl's mental breakdown, indirectly blamed on her affairs with three cruel and sadistic women.
In the story of a promiscuous, rather pathetic girl, a sadistic lesbian neighbor brings on violent events.
What I refer to is a very subtle and complicated mood wherein the simple sadistic impulse to derive sensual pleasure from the contemplation of cruelty has been seized upon and taken possession of by the emotion of malice.
But it will always remain that in the supreme works of art this sadistic element has been overcome and transformed by the pressure upon it of the emotion of love.
There exists, however, other instances, when the work of art in question is obviously inferior, in which we are confronted by something much more evil than the mere presence of the sadistic impulse.
It may be noted that in Régis's sadistic case the little girl who was the boy's playmate found scarcely less pleasure in the passive part of whipping than he found in the active.
It should be added that the object of the sadistic impulse is not necessarily a person of the opposite sex.
Reidel, the sadistic murderer, was timid, modest, and delicate; he was too shy to urinate in the presence of other people.
But I think I find no greater difficulty in picturing the mental attitude of a sadistic lunatic than that of a normal man who gets pleasure out of women for whom he has no love.
In some cases, in boys and youths who have no true sadistic impulse and are not usually cruel, this infliction of torture on a lower animal produces an erection, though not necessarily any pleasant sexual sensations.
In the same way it is a mistake to suppose that the very feminine woman is not capable of sadistic tendencies.
The earliest definitely described medical case of sadistic pleasure in the sight of active whipping which I have myself come across belongs to the year 1672, and occurs in a letter in which Nesterus seeks the opinion of Garmann.
On the other hand, Féré has recorded a case in which the sexual excitement accompanying delayed orgasm was always transformed into anger, though without any true sadistic manifestations.
Such feelings may arise sporadically in persons in whom no sadistic or masochistic perversion can be said to exist, though they usually appear in individuals of neurotic temperament.
This view is not accepted, but there can be no doubt that the sadistic manifestations which occurred in the Middle Ages were mixed up with legendary and folk-lore elements.
Although masochism in a pronounced degree may be said to be rare in women, the love of active flagellation, and sadistic impulses generally are not uncommon among them.
At the same time there was a trace of sadistic tendency: "I used to frighten and tease a young child, driven to it by an irresistible impulse, and experiencing a certain pleasurable feeling in so doing.
She has never hitherto allowed anyone (except her husband after marriage) to know of her sadistic impulses, nor has she carried them out with anyone, though she would like to, if she dared.
In the sexual make-up of many people there is a masochistic component, which has arisen through the conversion of the aggressive, sadistic component into its opposite.
He subsumed what occurred between his parents under the conception "violence and wrestling," and thus reached a sadistic conception of the coitus act, as often happens among children.
No discussion is needed for the fact that an outspoken sadistic nature in Lady Macbeth leads her to walk in her sleep, indeed, disposes her to it.
The father is a rough, violent robber knight while the mother shows distinctly sadistictraits and a truly ready hand at fighting.
I mentioned above that her mother had been sadistic and at the same time a sleep walker.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sadistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
