Definitions
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- noun self-imposed distress
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Examples
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We can also be protected from guilt, which is one of the worst kinds of self-torment.
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We can also be protected from guilt, which is one of the worst kinds of self-torment.
Sharon Salzberg: The Buddha's Five Protections - Part 1 2010
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News at Eleven: Samuel Johnson preserves the memorable anecdote of Pope's self-torment as a satirist who claimed to relish his enmities.
News at Eleven: [Samuel] Johnson preserves the memorable anecdote Rus Bowden 2009
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This make perfect sense, why would you risk hell and self-torment by voting for the bad guy who will cut your taxes when you know your vote isn't likely to make a difference anyway, except it might send you to hell.
What I Learned At the Library, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Somewhat a whodunit that is resolved early, DESPERADO CITY is more a teen character study with so much self-torment and tsuris that the amount of runaway hormones on the loose is over the top of the Catskills.
Desperado City-Rebecca Coleman « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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News at Eleven: Samuel Johnson preserves the memorable anecdote of Pope's self-torment as a satirist who claimed to relish his enmities.
Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Through the deserted apartments, the scene of so many bitter reflections, the unhappy youth stalked like a discontented ghost, conjuring up around him at every step new subjects for sorrow and for self-torment.
The Monastery 2008
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Medieval penitents who donned coarse sackcloth undershirts chose an effective means of self-torment.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Medieval penitents who donned coarse sackcloth undershirts chose an effective means of self-torment.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Medieval penitents who donned coarse sackcloth undershirts chose an effective means of self-torment.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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