| 单词 | self-flagellation |
| 例句 | But hey, slipping the note into the widows mailbox had always been more about self-flagellation than brotherly love. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Dobyns’s population projections were quickly seen by some as politically motivated—self-flagellation by guilty white liberals or, worse, a push to inflate the toll of imperialism from the hate-America crowd. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This is not a complaint or self-flagellation: It’s a fact of life. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Is there an element of self-flagellation in your writing? “Marry Him” author Lori Gottlieb: “I don’t think anything I’ve written is controversial” 2014-02-20T00:00:00Z “It is a self-flagellation at the official level,” said Michele H. Bogart, an art historian who specializes in public art. Decades After the Central Park Jogger Attack, a City Marks Its Mistake 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He shot one of Mooney’s goons in the leg and ditched a poor police officer, who got caught in later crossfire, with nary a look of concern or self-flagellation furrowing his brow. 'Gotham' Recap: All Hail the Penguin 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z His temp job making copies at a local community organization reads to them as a form of self-flagellation, so far beneath his abilities as to suggest pathology or, even worse, politics. Review: ‘Straight White Men,’ Now Checking Their Privilege on Broadway 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z There is much hand-wringing and self-flagellation over indie having a primarily white, middle-class audience. Ask the indie professor: Will Kings of Leon's Sex On Fire ever go away? 2010-08-10T10:17:00Z Yet when an awareness of impermanence swells into preoccupying death visions of the people you love most, it goes beyond mental retraining or self-flagellation for not enjoying your life as you think you’re supposed to. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Learning to confront feelings of dread 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z With no small amount of self-flagellation, Goldsmith confesses that his own selfish careerism made him turn his back on his stepfather. Made Man: ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Replays a Famous Disappearance 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Volz, who admits involvement in the corruption, having worked for both Mr. Ney and Mr. Abramoff, tells all in “Casino Jack,” to the point of self-flagellation. Film: Alex Gibney?s ?Casino Jack and the United States of Money? 2010-04-24T02:39:00Z He vacillates between grandiose justifications for his dishonesties and mea culpa self-flagellation: “Nothing like the silken whip of self-reproach to soothe a smarting conscience,” he observes. ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z At times this book almost wallows in guilt, in the performance of self-flagellation. In ‘The Octopus Museum,’ Brenda Shaughnessy Sees a Cephalopod Future 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z She is not swayed by his new allyship and its accompanying self-flagellation, does not want to be stuck in the role of victim he is trying to assign her. ‘Off Peak’ Review: Caught in Limbo on the Northbound Track 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But there is also self-flagellation and dancers carried off in poses like religious icons. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Evening Includes ‘Sunset’ and ‘Gossamer Gallants’ 2014-03-19T20:08:21Z After being falsely accused and trounced for theft, the twins turn to self-flagellation and starvation. 'The Notebook' is a chilling but reductive World War II tale 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z While some of this year’s Realness fare felt relentlessly inward-gazing — like Karol Tyminski’s grating exercise in self-flagellation, “This Is a Musical” — “Minor Matter” tapped into a place of generous and generative rage. American Realness: Subversive, Crowded and Lit by Vital Sparks 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Diana Abu-Jaber, author of the memoir “The Language of Baklava,” indulges in a prodigious use of exclamation points, with a chaser of self-flagellation. Cultural Studies: Talking (Exclamation) Points 2011-07-01T20:53:51Z His measured steadfastness, a marked contrast to Malcolm’s self-flagellation and Enoch’s sanctimony, might be cloying were it not for his charming obtuseness about more personal matters. Jeffrey Lent’s ‘A Slant of Light’ chronicles a Civil War veteran’s return 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Which particular circle of hell are the songs concerned with, I wonder – the medieval torments of cruise ship singers, the perpetual self-flagellation of singer-songwriters? Keeping the faith 2010-04-10T23:05:00Z But there’s self-flagellation, too, and ultimately a surprising poignancy, as she recounts a snarky piece she once wrote there, galumphing into a subculture that wasn’t hers. Review: ‘Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen’ Takes On the Cringeworthy 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z This time, after the flowers and self-flagellation, her poem ended with a challenge to the white-dominated museum crowd: “It Is Time For an Invasion!” Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s a criticism that’s been so widely quoted that many journalists have internalized it as a strange kind of self-flagellation. Perspective | What Biden — and a lot of other people — get wrong about journalists 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z In the trenches, Ndiaye’s affliction soon becomes a sort of psychological self-flagellation. In the Trenches of World War I, a Bloody Ritual Fueled by Guilt 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z But, on balance, Baquet asserted that there was no need for journalistic self-flagellation. Perspective | Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous. Now’s the last chance to get 2020 right. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z If not already, you will likely at some point be asked the following question: "Why would a white person read 'Riot Baby'"? Is it just self-flagellation? "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “It was adopted later by monastic orders in the form of practices like self-flagellation, the wearing of hair-shirts, ritual fasting and the mortifications of the flesh.” The Age of Purification 2011-05-20T22:30:36Z Social ostracism and self-flagellation were part of the prevailing ethos. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z In dreamspace, he’s freed of his meekness, she of her self-flagellation. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z There were brandished Twitter pitchforks and, from Gunn, sincere self-flagellation; and then, in a sign of cancel culture craziness, he was rehired less than a year later. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z I was getting mentally beaten up, but it was self-flagellation by Howard as much as anything else. How we made Beauty and the Beast 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Her unbending strictness is a form of self-flagellation. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Sparkle,’ With Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z The notion of sitting at home making Rebecca Black's Friday last five times longer would seem, on the face of it, to be an act of self-flagellation. How to make Rebecca Black sound halfway listenable 2011-03-30T12:35:00Z Barris is committing enough self-flagellation for the entire culture by way of an upscale reprise of past TV acts, and we are under no obligation because of anything to bear witness. Netflix's "#blackAF" is Kenya Barris' wealthier, shallower, and meaner "Black-ish" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z You would think Gainsbourg's near death would have cured her of her self-flagellation. Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I'm always looking for what will make me feel bad' 2011-08-05T18:59:01Z Narrator Alex McKenna’s voice could be Turtle’s: young, slightly husky and reflective of the mess of love, self-flagellation and rationalization that makes up this girl’s inner life. ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ is one of the best new audiobooks of the month 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The ejection, captured on video and widely shared on social media, caused an uproar and triggered a round of airline industry self-examination — and self-flagellation — that has continued. What all the recent United Airlines headlines may mean for travelers 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Still, he says with a slow guilty smile, he thinks he must secretly enjoy the self-flagellation. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z Such self-flagellation is not the habit of Willie Stark, the folksy politician at the heart of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel "All the King's Men." Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature 2011-06-15T22:06:00Z The need to feel entirely immersed in Christ’s suffering on the cross led to a passion for self-flagellation until a papal edict attempted to end the popular display of public piety in 1349. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z She has two ball-and-chain sets on shorter cords, which she uses for self-flagellation. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Company at New York Live Arts 2013-12-06T22:22:10Z “The Cage Fighter” is hardly epic in scope or originality, but it is uncommon to watch this degree of open self-flagellation on screen. Review: The Ring Is a Cage in Every Sense in ‘The Cage Fighter’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z During all of this vicious self-flagellation, the one thing I didn’t do was go online to see if a kindhearted stranger had witnessed my struggle and written me an open letter filled with support. Why the 'open letter to mothers' trend needs to stop 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z As is revealed early in "The Turning," the sisters would frequently engage in self-flagellation. "The Turning": The dark side of Mother Teresa's order, according to nuns who left 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Thomas spends the first part of the book torn between self-flagellation and self-pity. Books of The Times: ‘Hikikomori and the Rental Sister,’ by Jeff Backhaus 2013-01-29T22:33:33Z The criticism of white American arrogance cuts about as deep as the usual white American self-flagellation, the apologies issued from center stage. Privileged lives are thrown into chaos in Maile Meloy's page-turning novel 'Do Not Become Alarmed' 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Throughout all of this, the viewer is meant to identify with Offred’s suffering and, at times, self-flagellation. The future isn't female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid's Tale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z That said, some of his self-flagellation is quite funny, as when he recounts a journal entry from his freshman year at college. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s a slippery hybrid: self-flagellation and charm offensive. Review | Ethan Hawke turns his acting experience — and past infidelities — into brilliant fiction 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z It is only then that he comprehends what an utter fool he’s been, and is racked with further torment and self-flagellation. 'Poldark' Episode 2 Recap: Triumph v. Torment 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z This self-flagellation would be way more awesome if it involved whips. Roundup: George W. Bush hacker guilty, UC San Diego closes gallery, a socially conscious architecture biennial 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z If you’re going to make a movie about guilt and spiritual self-flagellation, as Paul Schrader has with First Reformed, you need a great face. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The meetings can be full of ruthless — and helpful — self-flagellation. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z After months of self-examination — and even self-flagellation, at times — the nation’s mainstream press, aware of its failures during the campaign, seems up for the challenges of doing the job ahead. How much normalizing does an abnormal president deserve? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But his deeds weigh heavy on him, feeding his spiral of self-flagellation, addiction and recklessness. The Only Hollywood Abuser I Want to Hear From Is a Horse 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The problem is that some of the songs are so complicated that, if we don't run it beforehand, then it sucks and there's lots of self-flagellation. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z While the pathos and rigorous self-flagellation leavened by humor and swearing is classic Mods, the last bit of self-interrogation is charmingly absurd. Sleaford Mods gets introspective, but don’t think they’ve gone soft 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Their choice of a life of contemplative prayer and service is continually mocked, particularly in the “It’s Good to be a Nun” number, which praises such penances as self-flagellation. Touring ‘Sister Act’ has more sass than soul 2013-08-21T21:55:05Z On the surface, he treats jazz as an object of affection, but really it’s not much more than a stand-in for white male self-flagellation, a proxy for how white men come to understand themselves. ‘La La Land’ Is Stuck in Its Own Time 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z This is a religious idea as much as a cultural one—self-flagellation as a road to transcendence. The True Gladness of Allen Toussaint 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Soon these same friends have been thrown back into jail or are murdered by the revolutionaries; Marji and her schoolmates take the veil and are taught self-flagellation instead of algebra. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z I have just spent much of my holiday browsing in bookshops – and not as a form of self-flagellation, but looking for books I am actually going to be able to read. Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true revolution 2012-08-17T21:00:01Z Lorca, like many Filipino Catholic devotees, performs religious penance in the belief that the practice of self-flagellation can cleanse sins, cure illness and even grant wishes. Filipino Catholics mark Jesus' crucifixion with self-flagellation 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z As is the process, which involves some self-flagellation. Perspective | MacKenzie Gore is a perfectionist who’s not yet perfect 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z So, in four paragraphs of self-flagellation, Sweet almost instantly apologized for the “harm” his “ham-fisted” and “clumsy” attempt to “open a conversation” has caused. Opinion | In the sandbox also known as academia, it’s the golden age of the grovel 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The stand-up’s job is one of public self-flagellation in service of the greater good. Commentary: The best comedy lesson Robin Williams taught me was learning to laugh at myself 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z All I can do is urge you to stop the self-flagellation. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Torn between a ‘pretty good life’ and moving near family 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Although the Catholic Church disapproves of the practice as a misinterpretation of faith, self-flagellation continues across the predominantly Catholic Southeast Asian country. Filipino Catholics mark Jesus' crucifixion with self-flagellation 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z I mean, extensive analysis and soul-searching and self-flagellation need to be undertaken if the republic is to survive, right? Review | This primal scream over Trump’s enablers provides only a partial catharsis 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z One suspects that he'll need to do a full hair-shirt/self-flagellation while crawling on his belly singing "YMCA" for this one. Kevin McCarthy caught on tape: Trump won't forgive him this time 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Lanard said the single most important messaging task for Walensky is to acknowledge, “in a confident tone, with no self-flagellation, that many people have told her that her communications have been confusing and unclear.” CDC director, under fire for confusing guidance, seeks to reshape messaging 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z There may be hard manual labor and a little self-flagellation, but sardonic laughter sometimes erupts within these walls, as do wittily barbed negotiations over money. Review: Sexy, satirical and spiritual, 'Benedetta' shows a lesbian nun's life is not so wimple 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Conservatives accuse liberals of promoting what they call a woke interpretation, heavy on self-flagellation and light on self-congratulation. Once the future, US now captive to its past 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Apologies for being White might be all the rage today, but momentum for racial self-flagellation has been building for years. ‘So much shame’: Woke left-wingers increasingly embarrassed over White ‘privileged’ status 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Jean Castex, Mr. Macron’s prime minister, said last November that French “self-flagellation” around the theme of colonization was regrettable. In Reconciliation Act, Macron Acknowledges Truth of Algerian Lawyer’s Death 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z However, they need to be seen as learning experiences and not as self-flagellation. New Zealand media giant Stuff apologises for 'racist' past reporting 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z Every presidential election involving a Republican victor inevitably is followed by self-flagellation by the media. Opinion | If we’re to unite as a country again, we need the media’s cooperation 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z My life was filled with self-flagellation, forced performances to display my commitment to changing an unacceptable body. Opinion | Leave Fat Kids Alone 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z In a world where at any moment someone might be attacked for saying the wrong thing, he says the wrong thing all the time and does not bother with self-flagellation. The Macho Appeal of Donald Trump 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, Trump used a strategy so ham-fisted that every reporter, editor or producer who fell for it should consider the medieval tradition of self-flagellation in repentance. Here we go again: Trump's BS executive orders sucker the media on coronavirus relief 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z “Checking” your privilege then becomes a public exercise in self-flagellation, focusing on the repentantly privileged while neatly obscuring how intrinsic anti-black racism is to the world. Anti-racism requires so much more than 'checking your privilege' | Momtaza Mehri 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Wracked by doubt and self-flagellation, unable to sleep, Nixon slipped out of the building just after 4:35 a.m. with a handful of aides and Secret Service agents and traveled to the Lincoln Memorial. Trump’s Lessons From Nixon Missed One Important Thing 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Even though such self-flagellation is transparently intended to disarm, it’s hard to resist. Review: Canceled, creepy and still funny, Woody Allen shrugs 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Even Dutt’s moments of triumph as a young girl, she says, were accompanied by self-flagellation. Coming out as Dalit: how one Indian author finally embraced her identity 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z But it was strange to see the Oscars raising the curtain with a song-and-dance number dedicated to self-flagellation. The Oscars' clumsy attempt to address diversity 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z This tendency to induce nausea seems common in hangover remedies — it seems, in fact, integral to the idea, as if a little self-flagellation is a vital part of your next-day post-bacchanalian shame experience. From ‘hair of the dog’ to a ‘Prairie Oyster,’ a roundup of hangover ‘cures’ that actually might help 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon are marking the day with rallies, prayers and self-flagellation. Shiite Muslims observe holy day amid regional tensions 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z My mother’s memories of the convent also include being required to use a medieval self-flagellation device she and the other sisters called “the discipline.” Opinion | When ‘Priest Weds Nun’ 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Well, first of all, no self-flagellation required for that week in Italy. Opinion | How Guilty Should You Feel About Your Vacation? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z That gives America — and its tech companies — a special responsibility, one it shies away from with excessive self-flagellation, he suggests. With border security start-up Anduril, Palmer Luckey charges into tech's most heated debate 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z And, in a weird permutation of opportunistic self-flagellation — or something — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke announced that an ancestor once owned two slaves, so he supports reparations. Opinion | Trump’s tweets are a distraction for something else he doesn't want us to see 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z We get a glimpse of both Usher’s tormented mental life and his actual life, most effectively when they come together in a harrowing anecdote about semi-anonymous sex and the self-flagellation that follows. The Ecstatic Doubling of “A Strange Loop” 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z The fallout spread across North America, and there was a good amount of self-flagellation on social media and on Toronto sports talk radio for much of Tuesday. Toronto, ‘embarrassed’ by fans who cheered Kevin Durant’s injury, seeks to make amends 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “The longer they fail to deliver Brexit, the greater their need for self-flagellation becomes,” Roberts said, referring to the Conservatives. Amid calls for Theresa May to resign, her party is expected to flounder in European elections 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The media meanwhile, having diligently reported on the myriad connections between Trump associates and Russians, are now in a period of self-flagellation. Trump’s revenge? Why an eight-year media grudge may be about to get settled 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection. Mystery infections traced to blood-shedding religious ritual 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Easter is quieter, centred on anticipation; it forces you to engage in self-reflection and mental self-flagellation, and hopefully you’ll emerge a better person. Some sackcloth and ashes can do us all good – that’s why I love Lent | Dawn Foster 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z A reporter asked Beal if the earlier self-flagellation and displays of frustrations had fueled him. The Beal bounce-back: Wizards guard again shows fourth quarter mettle in win over Knicks 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “It was not obvious then. The colonial guilt was so huge that Westerners were completely bogged down in self-flagellation about colonialism, rather than seeing the growth of the church in other ways and other places.” Lamin Sanneh, pioneering historian who studied Christianity’s spread, dies at 76 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “But the U.S. almost certainly won’t go through self-flagellation like some in Congress want us to because it’s not in our self-interest.” Amid global outrage over Khashoggi, Trump takes soft stance toward Saudis 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z According to an Irish Times account, a psychologist told the court that Drummond joined the Christian Brothers at 14 and was soon introduced to “the practice of self-flagellation.” As Ireland awaits Pope Francis, abuse survivors battle to heal scars from a dark past 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And, as he showed at Bellerive on Thursday, not adverse to self-flagellation. PGA Championship 2018: Club pro is brutally honest on falling apart at Bellerive - Golf Digest 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The only self-flagellation after Sunday’s game came from the players. Aaron Boone Teaches the Yankees Accountability by Saying Sorry 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet when an awareness of impermanence swells into preoccupying death-visions of the people you love most, it goes beyond mental retraining or self-flagellation for not enjoying your life as you think you’re supposed to. She finally has the perfect life — plus crippling anxiety she’ll lose it all 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Suddenly, looking critically at stories that forecast our impending doom at the hands of technology or capitalism or white supremacy became more of an exercise in miserable self-flagellation than of actual intellectual or moral analysis. Is the Handmaid’s Tale still worth the agony of watching it? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z And a particular brand of politics — fueled by self-flagellation, piety, pride and legal jeopardy — seems to thread through every threatened impeachment. For Politicians Scraping Bottom, a Scarce Resource: Impeachment Lawyers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z I didn’t come here for protection, I came here to see a doctor who can prescribe the same antidepressants whose withdrawal has me alternating between suicidal thoughts and emotional self-flagellation. He just wanted a new prescription. He ended up in the psych ward instead. 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z I am referring to the endless self-flagellation among well-educated liberals — “the elites,” in pejorative parlance — about their failure to “get” the concerns of white working-class voters. Opinion | Stop Apologizing for Being Elite 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s also publicly funded, financed largely through an annual $208 license fee paid by television users, and it is subject to bouts of political scrutiny and self-flagellation. BBC editor who quit over equal pay offers stunning testimony to Parliament 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Yet the GOP recovered, without too much self-flagellation, to sweep the next elections. Wise up, liberals: Your hand is too weak right now to go all-in 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z After decades of self-flagellation, it is not easy ceding the mantle of martyrdom to more deserving baseball fans. A Cubs Fan Admits: We’re No Longer the Lovable Losers 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Fortunately for him, the white progressive appetite for self-flagellation appears as bottomless as the right's appetite for Benghazi fiction. Opinion | How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It peaks on the 10th day, Ashura, with booming dirges and mourning rituals that sometimes include self-flagellation by frenzied devotees. Kabul uneasily celebrates Shiite holiday of Ashura 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Shiites across the region are marking the holiday with prayers and marches and, in some cities, self-flagellation. Hezbollah leader warns Israel as Shiites mark Ashoura 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z But do the feelings of white people – their guilt and need for self-flagellation over the atrocities committed by their white forebears – trump the feelings of our city’s black residents? No question: my Virginia town's 'slave block' should be removed from our sight 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z “He’s rich, happy, has beautiful children and grandchildren and he wants to work for Trump – in Russia of all places! “I understand wanting to serve your country but that sounds like self-flagellation.” Jon Huntsman: is Trump’s new ambassador to Russia a selfless public servant or opportunistic people-pleaser? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Some Republicans, left to grapple with the fallout of the repeal failure, opted instead for collective self-flagellation. Republicans Try to Regroup After Health Care Failure, Democrats Exult 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z They argue that it says more about us than it does about how things really are – illustrating a certain tendency toward collective self-flagellation, and an unwillingness to believe in the power of human ingenuity. Is the world really better than ever? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Cursed by reflexive self-flagellation, he is blessed by high metabolism. At 58, John McEnroe Ponders a Life Off the Tennis Court 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z In 4:44, the catharsis is reversed, moving through confession, remorse, self-flagellation and promises of change. The message from Jay-Z and Beyoncé is not feminist | Minna Salami 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z But these days, the self-flagellation rings a little too true. Andy Murray Could Really Use a Nap or Two 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z They’ve been explaining to the young generation of immigrants that France was all about colonization, slavery and collaboration during World War II. This is self-flagellation. Analysis | Marion Maréchal-Le Pen: ‘We’ve won the battle of ideas’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Usually, this pathway outside Parx Casino is reserved for self-flagellation, a private lament at the last hundred lost. Trump Voters in a Swing District Wonder When the ‘Winning’ Will Start 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Always keen for a little self-flagellation, the triumph of Trump and Brexit triggered a crisis of liberal confidence. Populist correctness: the new PC culture of Trump's America and Brexit Britain| Arwa Mahdawi 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z As the teaching of American history became “one extended exercise in self-flagellation,” historical illiteracy grew, leading to today’s “War on Names.” Opinion | To understand today’s politics, look at Yale in the ’60s 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Other instances of penance in the Philippines include self-flagellation, or re-enacting the crucifixion by driving steel nails through the palms and feet on Good Friday. Redemption At The Feast Of The Black Nazarene 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It’s time to stop all the self-flagellation and raise our voices to insist that things such as knowledge, experience, qualifications and respect for objective facts still matter — now, perhaps, more than ever. Trump’s America is not the only ‘real’ America 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z In practice, however, contextualization often turns into an exercise in self-flagellation that provides the professional victim class the soapbox on which to air its latest grievances. Those Imperialistic Christian Missionaries 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z This is a time of self-flagellation in the media, as we scold ourselves for being out of touch with the anger in the country and failing to hear the beleaguered white working class. Trump’s campaign made it safe to hate again. Will he turn that around? 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Later in the day, men and boys would perform ritual self-flagellation in frenzied circles, in symbolic penance for Hussein’s death. Deadly attacks target defiant Shiite worshipers in Afghanistan amid security fears 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z No amount of celebratory self-flagellation will erase he reality of 9/11. Muslim Holy Day on Sept. 11? Coincidence Stirs Fears 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Britain’s establishment never forgave itself for taking the country to war in Iraq in 2003, and Wednesday’s publication of a public inquiry into the invasion provided a fresh opportunity for self-flagellation. Another Iraq War Rehash 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z There’s a performativity to it, as though public self-flagellation is equivalent to thorough analysis. You can wear high heels and be a feminist. But please don’t write an essay about it. 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Naftali Bennett, another far-right leader, demanded an end to the “festival of self-flagellation.” How Israel Lost Its Latest Chance for a Peace Process 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z And those voters will storm the polling places, rescuing the state from its usual self-flagellation over poor turnout and determining the winner of the contested June 7 presidential primary. California's seeing a surge in voter registration — but the impact on the June election isn't clear 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z I hate to get in the way of their self-flagellation but that’s not how I see it. Trump Was a Spark, Not the Fire 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Because in addition to physical pain, they are exposed to a level of spiritual torment that drives some of them to self-flagellation or, at least, to ghastly uncomfortable pre-kick rituals. The Joy of Six: sporting tics 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z If making art was her salvation, it was also a form of self-flagellation. The Psychedelic Garden of Tuscany 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But under the wider mood of self-flagellation, it became yet another instance of the country’s terminal weakness, something to be excised from the national mind and punished. The fall: how diving became football’s worst crime | Alejandro Chacoff 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z For many, this self-flagellation serves as a well-deserved punishment: If the problem was that we lived it up too much, the solution must be the opposite. Don't Buy Into the Mardi Gras Mentality 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z I am not going to indulge in righteous self-flagellation for fulfilling the brief of my recipe column. Jack Monroe: My meat addiction is over – I’ve gone vegan, and it’s brilliant 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Since then, budget negotiations have sought mainly to slow this self-flagellation. Reflections on projections 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z South Africa, so often a country apart, did not escape the volatile swings between giddy euphoria and gloomy self-flagellation. Vuvuzelas, Pistorius and Mugabe’s warped rule: my six years in Africa 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z If you’re in the mood for wide-eyed musical self-flagellation, Purpose is the album for you. Justin Bieber sounds like the future, and One Direction sounds like the past 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z He may be a man who submits to self-flagellation, but he’s even worse to everyone else. ‘Burnt’ bares all to show how the sausage is made 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z This self-flagellation proved insufficient; students circulated a petition to defund the newspaper. Free speech is flunking out on college campuses 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z No self-flagellation with a cat-o’-nine-tails is necessary. Why You Feel Like a Fraud and How to Overcome It 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Next there is his insufficient self-flagellation for American history, particularly regarding race relations. The Conservative Wheelman 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Conservatives in Japan, like Mr. Abe, are also dissatisfied by what they see as excessive self-flagellation over the war and Japan’s Asian colonial expansion in the early 20th century. Emperor Akihito Expresses ‘Deep Remorse’ for Japan’s Role in World War II 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z For a couple of hundred years now, no president of the United States has committed suicide by self-flagellation. The Risks of Nuclear Weapons: An Exchange 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z In 2010, I was diagnosed with diabetes and quickly put on a permanent treatment regimen, leading to equal parts self-flagellation, soul-searching and navel-gazing. I'm gay, liberal, open-minded – and a convert to Christianity | Jonathan Elliott 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Each year, his death is commemorated by Shiites worldwide in a 10-day outpouring of grief that culminates in funeral processions, reenactment of the events in Karbala and even self-flagellation. Iraqis rename offensive in Sunni area; original title honored Shiite 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z When liberals and Democrats suffer an especially bitter political defeat, the loss is usually followed by a round or two of finger-pointing, self-flagellation and near-existential dread. The right’s “freedom” meltdown: Why GOP still doesn’t get what liberty actually means 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Holly, New Jersey, took to Twitter for some good old fashioned self-flagellation. Here's the One Simple Way To Fix Weather Forecasts 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z There are religious rites, such as self-flagellation, solitary pilgrimages, and physical mutilation. Pain Really Does Make Us Gain 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Should the Eagles finish with 10 wins, frustration would mix with self-flagellation. Philadelphia Eagles’ playoffs hopes may have been dashed by loss to Redskins 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z The French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, in 1871, set off a spate of self-flagellation, with writers decrying a declining birth rate, an inferior education system, and moral bankruptcy. The French Obsession With National Suicide 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s a strange healing process, ripping off the scab, exposing our wounds; perhaps it’s like the self-flagellation of the early saints. David Ignatius: The Senate’s CIA report is a necessary public accounting 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The holiday, which will culminate Tuesday, features a ceremony of self-flagellation and mourning in commemoration of the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. Car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad as Iraqi violence mounts 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z "I know they say facing your fears is a good thing, but I've voluntarily made myself stare at slugs all day. I think it's some sort of self-flagellation." How to create a successful meme 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z To those who suffered at Camp Lejeune, an ugly truth about the American military has revealed itself, a truth no amount of compensation or self-flagellation can vanquish. Camp Lejeune and the U.S. Military's Polluted Legacy Here’s the deal with this subconscious self-flagellation: it wastes a TON of energy. Five Best To-Do List Tips 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The defeat sent Russia into collective gloom, the Russian coach into a vortex of self-flagellation and despair, and the Americans into the semifinals, where they promptly lost to Canada. With Olympics’ Closing Ceremony, a Chance to Exhale 2014-02-23T21:58:32Z As a result, self-flagellation is in the air in America. What Thomas Friedman and Niall Ferguson don’t understand about the rest of the world 2014-01-12T16:00:00Z I’m tempted to call them “my” Knicks, but using the personal pronoun amounts to an exercise in self-flagellation. On Pro Basketball: Escalating Crisis of Faith for Knicks’ True Believers 2013-12-22T01:56:02Z The President spent much of his sparring session with the Washington press corps performing the standard self-flagellation rituals. Obama Presser: 4 Takeaways 2013-12-21T00:50:24Z The mean-minded may jump to the - wrong - conclusion that all those long-distance bike rides are an exercise in self-flagellation. Viewpoint: Can Australia's Rudd pull off a miracle? 2013-08-31T21:09:05Z For purposes of public self-flagellation, I therefore recorded science-related bingos I missed over a few weeks in the early spring. Scrabble Sends One Man Scrambling for Meaning 2013-07-04T11:15:00.537Z “We were certainly not in a self-flagellation mode,” Mr. Holloway said. New York City to Double Number of Storm Evacuation Zones 2013-05-04T02:39:39Z No president produces a museum known for self-flagellation, and Mr. Bush’s is no exception. Hitting Rewind, Bush Museum Says: You Decide 2013-04-20T23:18:53Z Reading Dante in Hawaii reeks of self-flagellation, the sort critics are telling us we’re likely to see throughout the season. Don Draper does Dante 2013-04-08T16:29:00Z Sooner or later, austerity becomes an end, not a means: an obsessive self-flagellation. Beppe Grillo's antics may yet shake the whole European system 2013-02-26T19:30:01Z It is marked by processions of tens of thousands, which are characterised by the Shia ritual of self-flagellation. Pakistan faces violence in a supposed time of peace 2012-11-19T14:30:04Z Newsnight went on air on Friday with a prolonged apology and discussion of its own mistakes, one of the most excruciating examples of self-flagellation ever seen on British TV. BBC Scandal Rocks Britain 2012-11-11T02:40:00Z A second fallacy is that the financial markets will be impressed by this self-flagellation. Policymakers have themselves to blame if austerity mania breaks up euro 2012-09-28T10:23:18Z And there was much self-flagellation in India before and during the Commonwealth Games. IHT Rendezvous: Indian Insecurity vs. British Confidence: the Games Edition 2012-08-01T13:29:41Z As with individuals, the exaggerated sense of pride is very often a form of self-flagellation. Letter from India: India's Glee at the Flaws of Olympics 2012-08-01T13:00:30Z Delusions of grandeur are nothing new for British international sports—and of course, neither is the self-flagellation that tends to ensue when the country's team fails to live up to expectations. China Lets Its Medals Do the Talking 2012-07-30T01:42:37Z It may be a one-hour act of tongue-in-cheek self-flagellation, but it is also a chance for Marino to give his side of the story. How to write a West End flop 2012-07-27T01:45:12Z Finishing 36th in the medal table – below Belgium, Algeria and Kazakhstan – it prompted a period of furious self-flagellation in the media and serious soul searching among administrators. London 2012: how Team GB's fortunes turned around after disaster in Atlanta 2012-07-24T18:29:53Z LONDON—Despite the British penchant for cheeky self-flagellation, few would argue that London doesn't deserve a prominent spot among the world's most vibrant and delightfully quirky cities. Shard Is London's Latest Excuse to Party, Whinge 2012-07-05T12:16:38Z “This self-flagellation in Mexico is a malady,” said Mr. de la Calle, who argues against the conventional wisdom and describes Mexico as a middle-class country. Group of 20 Meets in a Mexico Outperforming Brazil 2012-06-18T01:08:57Z It smacks to many of the "self-flagellation" of which Leo Johnson spoke; it smacks of interference in people's freedom to spend their hard-earned cash as they choose. The joylessness of shopping 2012-05-24T11:51:47Z In a way, the entire Leveson inquiry has felt like a ritual self-flagellation for British society. Is It Finally Time For Rupert Murdoch to Step Down as News Corp. CEO? 2012-04-27T10:45:19Z It is commemorated annually by believers in 10 days of mourning known as Ashura, an outpouring of grief that features self-flagellation. Iranian Comic-Book Artists Seek a Unique, Local Identity 2012-04-12T14:19:51Z Others say, however, that this self-flagellation is misguided. DealBook: Davos Attendees Confront a New Wave of Anger 2012-01-24T15:41:21Z He and Patriots Coach Bill Belichick have raised self-flagellation to an art form, one rivaled only by their mastery of the no-huddle offense. The Fifth Down: The Patriots Have No Shot Against the Giants. Just Ask Them. 2012-01-23T07:25:41Z The Patriots, meanwhile, continue their creepy public self-flagellation for not going undefeated every single year. The Fifth Down: Week 12 Matchups: Something's Happening Here 2011-11-25T11:00:16Z Before we do a lot of self-flagellation let’s remember that this is a really hard problem to solve. Dot Earth Blog: A Climate Analyst Analyzes His Own Approach to CO2 2011-09-27T17:28:08Z It's understandable self-flagellation but it was at least somewhat misplaced. In defeat, Notre Dame 'D' keeps rolling 2011-09-05T14:53:00Z Economic growth slows; and the markets, which demanded the fiscal self-flagellation in the first place, are driven into a fresh panic. Panicky investors surely can't be expecting a quick cure for this malaise 2011-08-20T23:04:19Z In a statement with a robust amount of all the customary self-flagellation, Schwarzenegger says that he told Shriver about the child, who is now more than 10 years old, in January, after he left office. Other Shoe Drops: Schwarzenegger Fathered Secret Child With Staffer 2011-05-17T15:32:50Z Marketing 101, however, does not call for self-flagellation. Domino's Earns Big With Pizza and Chicken Ads 2011-05-05T16:05:00Z "The moral simplification urge is an extraordinarily powerful one, especially in this country, where imperial guilt can lead to self-flagellation," he explains. Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is' 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z We also did not accept the self-flagellation of those who see the State of Israel as exclusively responsible for the lack of a diplomatic process.” Barak?s Break With Party Shakes Up Israeli Politics 2011-01-17T15:25:38Z Muslims around the world continued to mark the Ashura festival with self-flagellation to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of Muhammad. Day in pictures 2010-12-17T13:08:43Z This was not so much poor fielding as self-flagellation. The Ashes 2010: Jonathan Trott racks up seriously impressive figures 2010-12-04T15:12:00Z There will still be regrets, but the most intense period of self-flagellation is probably over. Ventre: Time for Tiger to move on, resurrect his career 2010-08-25T18:54:00Z While this can be comforting, it can be a form of self-flagellation. The diligent get sick, too 2010-04-09T19:00:00Z Massa's interview with Beck was a hideous mix of self-flagellation, combativeness, dark conspiracy theories and awkward segues. This week in crazy: Eric Massa 2010-03-12T23:20:00Z Everywhere self-flagellation, almsgiving, prophetic ecstasies and trances, the scholars and the mob at one in joyous belief. Dreamers of the Ghetto Conscience, that “makes cowards of us all,” began its small inner remonstrance; then followed self-flagellation and much belaboring of herself with many remorseful terms. Not Like Other Girls To think a twilight or noonday walk for pleasure a sin, involves the absurdest principle of ascetic folly, as truly as self-flagellation, or wearing horsehair shirts. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 A strange mixture of sincerity and hypocrisy, self-flagellation and lust, aspiration and superstition, has gone into the making of this attitude. The Business of Being a Woman She was reasonably certain that while Thomas had jotted it down in scornful self-flagellation, it occupied a place somewhere in his past. The Voice in the Fog A sort of catholic doctrine, to mortify an author into a saint, extinguishing the glorious appetite of fame by one Lent all the year, and self-flagellation every day! Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Of all the speeches of prostrate yet somehow noble self-flagellation which in the night seasons she had so beautifully polished, not one single word could she now recall. Queed Even to our own day religious self-flagellation is practised by Spaniards in the Azores, in the darkened churches during Lent, and the walls are often spotted and smeared with blood at this time. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Their yielding to the temptation to obtain spiritual dominance by self-flagellation and fasting may be criticized in the light of modern Christianity. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Only she could continue self-flagellation lodged there in the brain whipping herself in memory. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America What one man seeks in work, another man seeks in religion, another finds in self-flagellation, and still others seek in alcohol, morphine, sexual excesses, etc. The Foundations of Personality In the preceding case we see a tendency to erotic self-flagellation which in a minor degree is not uncommon. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women The practice of public self-flagellation in church during Lent existed in Spain and Portugal up to the early years of the nineteenth century. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women He went back into his room and beat on his head in self-flagellation. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America |
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