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  • If you like a bit of self-tormenting, however, you can make patterns that are incredibly time-consuming and need full attention.

    The sun is shining, the grass is green... a stitch in time 2009

  • Poe's self-tormenting psychos prefigure legions of loners clinging, with bitten-down fingernails, to the fringes of society.

    Clinging To The American Edge 2008

  • LaMotta was a self-tormenting powerhouse; as likely to crush those he loved as much as his opposition in the ring.

    SLACKERJACK – Extreme Pamplona 2007

  • She had, therefore, abundant leisure for reflection, and even for self-tormenting, during the several days which, indulging the young horses the Duke was sending down to the North with sufficient ease and short stages, they occupied in reaching the neighbourhood of Carlisle.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • From Israeli "scholarship"--what Scott Sherman and the Nation will not investigate: ""Among Arabs, you will not find the phenomenon so typical of Judeo-Christian culture: doubts, a sense of guilt, the self-tormenting approach, `Maybe we weren't entirely OK,' or `Maybe we need to act or react differently.'

    Saturday, April 30, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • He thinks that earlier editions propogated a “self-tormenting” view of history whereas “It is very important to teach the future children of Japan so that they can live with pride in their race and their history.”

    Breaking News: WWII won’t go away 2004

  • He thinks that earlier editions propogated a “self-tormenting” view of history whereas “It is very important to teach the future children of Japan so that they can live with pride in their race and their history.”

    Breaking News: WWII won’t go away 2004

  • He thinks that earlier editions propogated a “self-tormenting” view of history whereas “It is very important to teach the future children of Japan so that they can live with pride in their race and their history.”

    井の中の蛙 » Breaking News: WWII won’t go away » Print 2004

  • O baleful Envy! thou self-tormenting fiend! how dost thou predominate in all assemblies, from the grand gala of a court, to the meeting of simple peasants at their harvest-home!

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Borowski's stark, unsparing and self-tormenting narratives, among them the story entitled This Way for the Gas, Ladies and

    Nobel Lecture - Literature 2002 2002

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