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Examples
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When no higher purpose is assigned to life than the evaluation of facts, life turns in upon itself and becomes sterile, even self-punishing.
Protesting HCR 362 at Nancy Pelosi’s House « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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A close-to-home example: in the heat of a recent error in judgment on my part, I indulged in typically self-punishing, exhausting thinking.
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Meanwhile, there's a wildcard character, a troubled boy named Corey, who in his own disturbed and self-punishing logic may hold the key to all.
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A close-to-home example: in the heat of a recent error in judgment on my part, I indulged in typically self-punishing, exhausting thinking.
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This ‘savagely self-punishing teenager’ is a good example of female assertiveness throughout nineteenth-century Christianity.
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The practical result of this petty matriarchy is a Platonic dictatorship of self-punishing guardians.
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By 1980, however, the rightward shift of American politics had put Moynihan's positions well to the left of center, so this was a self-punishing admission.
Hillary's Predecessor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Called GOP "The Party Of Ideas," Too 2009
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Additionally, if Obama not handing out street money in Phillie is a mistake, its self-punishing and one I'd expect you to cheer.
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This ‘savagely self-punishing teenager’ is a good example of female assertiveness throughout nineteenth-century Christianity.
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She hears media reports -- and follows them with self-punishing intensity -- about day-care horror stories: sexual abuse, neglect, indifference.
Mommy Vs. Mommy 2008
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