self-flagellating

An hour of Jonathan Meades leaves me feeling like a medieval monk who has just completed his self-flagellating stint for the day.

TV review: Jonathan Meades on France; Bouncers 2012

For you non-Yids out there, a High holiday Jew is sort of like a Christian who just celebrates Christmas and Easter, only more self-flagellating.

Lily Blau: Fashion and Faith: God, Gucci, and What Happened Along the Way Lily Blau 2010

Then on Saturday, another situation arose that would ordinarily have me flailing about in a self-flagellating diatribe: I was learning to purl.

Awesome Mission No. 3 « Looking for Roots 2010

Living on the cheap for a decade and a half longer than one's peers is hardly like sitting cross-legged in dirt twelve hours a day or whatever real self-flagellating monks do, but the contrast between what one could have done with one's life can be a heavy weight to bear.

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

Typically portrayed in comedic roles (The World According To Garp, Harry and the Hendersons, and Third Rock from the Sun), Lithgow has already shown a strong bad guy persona by killing a girl and self-flagellating himself over a very hot shower.

All About Dexter, Season 4, Episode 1 | myFiveBest 2009

But it is self-flagellating, permanently contrite and never misses an opportunity to abolish itself.

St. Paul's Occupied Cathedral Douglas Murray 2011

When suddenly, last year, people were having to make self-flagellating statements about their inner racism or be branded a * worse* sort of racist (the unrepentant kind).

intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated intertribal 2010

Ah, my beloved Keith Popely -- the first follower of my self-flagellating blog and a absolute wild man.

A Reminder: Don't Fuck With the Assistant 2010

Maybe once it becomes obvious that the home team is going to lose, the league should require the stadium to eat humble pie and play apologetic, self-flagellating clips on the jumbotron, meekly conceding that the visiting team is not in fact a big disgrace with mud on its face.

Serving Humble Pie on the Jumbotron Joe Queenan 2011

Living on the cheap for a decade and a half longer than one's peers is hardly like sitting cross-legged in dirt twelve hours a day or whatever real self-flagellating monks do, but the contrast between what one could have done with one's life can be a heavy weight to bear.

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012