self-torturing

I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families.

A sad day for bananafish 2010

I love this film because it really helps you see how self-torturing envy is, and how it can completely corrupt and destroy the soul.

Archive 2009-06-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

I love this film because it really helps you see how self-torturing envy is, and how it can completely corrupt and destroy the soul.

The "G" in Ode to Joy: Journal Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

It's been a while since anyone called him Bambi or compared him to the ambivalent, self-torturing Adlai Stevenson.

Turbulence Ahead 2008

And Bill Altreuter dealt with the peculiar self-torturing disciplines required of people who want to be good Catholics.

Interred with their bones 2005

And also I needed to confirm a few things that I've wanted to believe but for some self-torturing reason, i could let myself.

lily-white Diary Entry lily-white 2005

He had been listening, as he now felt, to a sad and terrible story — an evil and cruel self-torturing and destroying story.

An American Tragedy 2004

I have always felt a sympathy for that tortured, self-torturing man who offered himself to his own soul as Buddha offered himself to the famished tiger.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I have always felt a sympathy for that tortured, self-torturing man who offered himself to his own soul as Buddha offered himself to the famished tiger.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I have always felt a sympathy for that tortured, self-torturing man who offered himself to his own soul as Buddha offered himself to the famished tiger.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965