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- adjective Of or pertaining to the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), French novelist, or his writings, particularly
sadomasochistic erotica .
Etymologies
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Examples
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What if he wrote ten volumes of brutal Sadean pornography?
2010 January 2010
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What if he wrote ten volumes of brutal Sadean pornography?
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He releases this force in the most Sadean episode of the novel, a nighttime encounter between the Bohemians and a band of monks, who enter the narrative as if from some libidinal underworld.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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I find a Sadean strain in Les Bohémiens — but with a difference: Pelleport's novel is far better written than Les 120 Journées de Sodome.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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I am talking about The Rape 1 1934 by Magritte, one of the more Sadean artists of French surrealism.
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I am talking about The Rape 1 1934 by Magritte, one of the more Sadean artists of French surrealism.
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At moments, as we'll see, Heber's disciplining of Hemans comes to look more Sadean than courtly -- with Hemans fortunately not masochistic enough to continue the game.
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Just as she acquires lovers in order to expose the degeneracy of the love contract, so she exercises those other social lusts -- money getting and exploitation -- with a cruel candour entirely worthy of the most apocalyptic Sadean hero.
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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The Connery's were serious films which had that dry, almost Sadean humor, quite different in tone from the ones in the 70s and later.
C I N E B E A T S 2009
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But the difference in acting styles between his confidently unrestrained Valmont and Ms. Linney’s archly suppressed Merteuil throws their unscrupulous partnership in de Sadean eroticism off balance.
Roundabout's Icy Liaisons, With a Freeze-Dried Laura Linney 2008
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