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EISENBERG I wish I could say he's more self-flagellating than I am.
By the end, she is self-flagellating as the crowd roars its approval.
A tall order, to be sure; this is a self-flagellating exercise by design.
About halfway through, it becomes apparent what a self-flagellating enterprise the whole saga is.
There were a lot of self-flagellating clerics, and dehumanizing slave owners, and kinky Nazis.
Airbnb has responded by hiring advisers, reviewing its site and self-flagellating over the problems.
His arms — whirligigs holding crucifixes — seem to be flogging something, or is he self-flagellating?
The seven days culminate with a Sunday procession, which includes hundreds of self-flagellating, hooded penitents.
Penitent Christians paraded through the streets of Europe flagellating themselves with whips to appease God's wrath.
Clinton J. Guthrie, Queens I was surprised by Rick Perlstein's self-flagellating confession in the magazine.
The central composer was the twentieth-century Russian ascetic Galina Ustvolskaya, who wrote spiritual music of flagellating force.
At night I run through these personal failings in my head, self-flagellating while envisioning the worst-case scenarios.
In Debicki's curiously ethereal performance, we see a vulnerable, self-flagellating intellect — a damaged soul sustained by expressing itself.
In Debicki's curiously ethereal performance, we see a vulnerable, self-flagellating intellect — a damaged soul sustained by expressing itself.
We are a postmodern band of medieval monks, self-­flagellating and deprived, suspicious of the joy and fullness of life.
But it was very self-flagellating, because when you're a crazy ex, it's like: 'Oh my god, my ex is crazy.
The last thing Ronda Rousey, a notoriously sore loser with severe self-flagellating tendencies, needed was another year tucked inside herself.
And it is filled with the sort of self-worshiping, self-flagellating self-centeredness you associate with boys tormented by their raging hormones.
In the end, Everyman is only able to achieve absolution and be cleansed of his sins by repenting before God and flagellating himself.
An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to self-flagellating religious traditions of the American Southwest as belonging to the Native Americans.
By lucky, Toby mostly means privileged, but he doesn't use that word because Toby doesn't deign to use such "self-flagellating middle-class" language.
The political writer for the Financial Times, Janan Ganesh, thinks that liberals are just flagellating themselves with horror forecasts, as they like to do.
Lee is in some kind of self-imposed exile, like a self-flagellating monk, and seems to want nothing more than to disappear entirely.
The resultant pressures led to a torturous recording process for Algiers's follow-up, indicated by an oddly self-flagellating press kit and intercontinental studio credits.
Instead, they spent most of their time flagellating Bresch repeatedly with numbers, repeating to her Mylan's marketing costs, executive compensations, profit margins, market caps, etc.
The title "Last Girl Before Freeway" is borrowed from one of Rivers's self-flagellating jokes about her mother being desperate to marry her daughter off.
Having gotten it so wrong in 2016, and already prone to freak-outs and self-flagellations, Democrats are responding by freaking out and self-flagellating.
But his self-flagellating exposé was well-timed to the end of a decade rattled by the AIDS crisis and soured by narcissism and decadence.
But his self-flagellating exposé was well-timed to the end of a decade rattled by the AIDS crisis and soured by narcissism and decadence.
Before kick-starting the motor to this flagellating ode however, it should be noted Brand New were never intended to become the band they are now.
What does it feel like when you don't even have to do any self-flagellating Facebook stalking because you already know exactly what they look like?
Jesse, you do create unusually self-flagellating characters, including the writer in your earlier work "The Revisionist" [in which he starred with Vanessa Redgrave in 2013].
Inclined to overthinking, these were all the things I was self-flagellating pondering while attending Trip Metal 3, the third year of Detroit's premiere avant-skronk party.
You know the old saying, "There is no stronger love than the love between a self flagellating misanthrope and a singer of Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel"?
She possesses that alluring hot-and-cold quality that can be so addictive before you know better, alternating between self-flagellating confessions and a generalized misanthropic snobbery.
Rest assured, Perry's neurotic, self-flagellating ethos lives on in Golden Exits, his latest foray into what Don DeLillo called "around-the-house-and-in-the-yard" fiction.
How could you not fall for this self-flagellating, frustrated artist, who looks, as one woman puts, it "like a turtle who doesn't know he's lost his shell"?
"Mourner" was written as a series of monologues, in which the title character exposes, by self-flagellating degrees, his own craven passivity and complicity in a corrupt world.
I'm guessing Hadid is smart enough to get ahead of Donald Trump before he begins barraging her with tweets demanding a self-flagellating apology from the 21-year-old.
But as I grew older, I learned that the fixation on perfection and the self-flagellating level of discipline required to approach it could turn inward in destructive ways.
ARTS An article on Wednesday about the choreographer Martha Graham's piece "El Penitente" referred incorrectly to self-flagellating religious traditions of the American Southwest as belonging to Native Americans.
It's an even more startling way to begin this movie, which is more about slow internal movements and long, unprofitable waits than about this level of manic, self-flagellating exaltation.
Stormzy's vulnerability is poignantly clear on the self-flagellating new ballad "Lessons," in which he addresses rumors surrounding his recent split from the British TV presenter and D.J. Maya Jama.
Muslims were mobilizing; once, Mr. Rizvi visited during Muharram, an annual ritual of mourning, and found her surrounded by pilgrims, flagellating themselves with chains to which razor blades had been attached.
We too often think about self-improvement and the pursuit of our goals in bracing, self-flagellating terms: I will do better, I will muscle through, I will wake up earlier.
Images follow of gloomy-looking young women in that dolorous morning-after condition, flagellating themselves, we are to imagine, for submitting to so many glasses of Syrah that sapped so much productivity.
It is a scary and funny story; so, in a different vein, is Oluo's self-flagellating account of his behavior during a fireworks explosion at a Fourth of July party back home.
A muckraking Twitter thread materialized, scorning Calloway as a "scammer"; she promptly canceled and then uncanceled the tour, all while zapping out flurries of alternately self-flagellating and self-justifying posts on Instagram Stories.
Theater Portraying a high school English teacher with a secret in this self-flagellating monologue by Neil LaBute, Judith Light gives palpable force to a buried guilt that keeps clawing its way to the light.
Duolingo, thankfully, will not come to my house in the dead of night to torture me into memorizing vocabulary, but I keep the app around as a self-flagellating reminder to try it again one day.
But even if they reach dire conclusions about human survival on Earth, Frank thinks it is essential to resist self-flagellating our species for its past decisions, and focus instead on our present and future ingenuity.
It was also in working out a space for herself as a (secretly) queer woman in that mostly male-identified tradition — finding pleasure in abstraction, pursuing difficulty in often self-flagellating ways — that Susan Sontag made history.
The process he undertakes to train his body to work again is grueling and immensely painful — and we are granted many scenes that show just how painful, to the point where it starts to feel like self-flagellating torture.
But before you start self-flagellating for bringing about this discomfort with your thriftiness, consider one final theory: no one is to blame for the worsening quality of air travel, because flying is actually much better than it used to be.
Whether she is writhing to rock and roll, roughing up a sexual partner, or climbing on top of a self-flagellating sex machine as she does in her Self Gratifier short film, her movements are deliberate, precise, and with loaded meaning.
"You can blame my travels or my blog posts or the distractions of other projects and [his movie theater] the Cocteau and whatever, maybe all that had an impact," Martin wrote in a lengthy, self-flagellating blog post all the way back in January 2016.
" Both women keep lists: Ro's is a self-flagellating inventory of reasons it's a bad idea for an unwed 42-year-old to raise a child; Susan's is a lengthy accounting of the unrelenting and grindingly dull routine of raising children: "Herd crumbs into palm.
For the three self-conscious and self-flagellating years I worked there, I felt absolutely convinced I could say nothing of insight about the city, and thus about politics or American life, unless I scored a rare invite to the politico-socialite Tammy Haddad's backyard party.
The fact that some journalists have chosen to focus on Dao's personal character as opposed to the records of the officers who mercilessly humiliated him or the tax-payer funded department for which they work has helped upend my self-flagellating habit of internalizing these news stories.
More than any individual issue, they have feared that he could be drawn into a weekslong, self-flagellating retrospective, pushed to renounce one aspect of his record after another, on subjects ranging from school busing in the 1970s to credit card regulations and the Iraq war.
Portraying a schoolteacher with a secret (or rather, A Secret) in a self-flagellating monologue that could have been written only by Mr. LaBute, she gives palpable force to a buried guilt that keeps clawing its way to the light, like some prematurely entombed figure out of Edgar Allan Poe.
I have been turning it over in my head and, for me, this decade in parenting is embodied in a single indelible image: a parent awake in the middle of the night, pinched face illuminated by the glow of her phone, flagellating herself with the judgment of other moms and dads.
And in a self-flagellating Twitter thread, the streaming service seemed to suggest that the show's cancellation was, on some level, the fault of viewers for not finding it — before insisting that Netflix remains committed to telling stories from Latinx viewpoints, despite having just canceled its most prominent show that did so.
In it, she writes, Mr. Baldwin "delivers a thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-ends-meet, desultorily functioning Long Island family, in Massapequa, turn into Alec Baldwin, gifted actor, familiar public figure, impressively thoughtful person, notorious pugilist?"
The performers rotate their wrists and swivel the pelvis in a traditional "feminine" manner, yet also make more animated, violent, and visceral movements, evoking the Shi'ite actions performed by Muslim men during the mourning month of Muharram, when some men take part in self-flagellating in a reenactment of the Hussein's struggle to safeguard Islam.
Will the curriculum be changed by the time my 8-year-old daughter reaches this class so that the fight for representation and political accountability during the Revolutionary period becomes buried in self-flagellating rhetoric about how it's "much more important" to note that some of our Founding Fathers owned slaves and no women signed the Declaration of Independence?
But Southgate also knew it had been more than a decade since England's last knockout-round win at a big event, and so he was sure to savor this one — for himself, because of his history with the team, but also because he thinks this England can paint a brighter future than its recent self-flagellating past.
But to his surprise (and ours) he pulls himself together and delivers a thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-ends-meet, desultorily functioning Long Island family, in Massapequa, turn into Alec Baldwin, gifted actor, familiar public figure, impressively thoughtful person, notorious pugilist?
On 20 June, the shrine was crowded with self-flagellating mourners, celebrating Ashura and commemorating the death of Husayn ibn Ali. At 14:26, a bomb exploded in a crowded prayer hall in the women's section of the shrine. The Independent described it as "the first attack on such a holy place" or "the worst terrorist atrocity in Iran since 1981". In protest, people gathered outside the mosque and hospitals.
X-Ray of pelvis of Albert Fish showing over a dozen needles inserted. American serial killer Albert Fish has been said to have engaged in piquerism upon his victims and his own body, flagellating himself constantly with a nail-studded board. After his arrest and subsequent jailing for the murder of Grace Budd, an X-Ray revealed at least 29 needles that were inserted into his groin and pelvic region.
In December 2013 in a blog article for The Spectator website published shortly after Nelson Mandela died, Liddle wrote of BBC coverage: > But for Christ's sake BBC, give it a bloody break for five minutes, will > you? It's as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self- > flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black > man dies! Let's re-run the entire history of South Africa.
Conspicuous among his guests is George Spalatin, who provides an inquiring interest into Luther's motivation to leave the study of law. Luther's entrance into monastic life is then portrayed. He does not find the spiritual peace he sought even though he follows a strict regimen of ascetic piety to the point of flagellating himself half to death. He is shown in sheer terror at the celebration of his first Mass as a newly ordained priest.
Fresco inside the tomb showing two men flagellating a woman with a whip and a hand during an erotic situation. The Tomb of the Whipping () is an Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Italy. It is dated to approximately 490 BC and named after a fresco of two men who flog a woman in an erotic context. The tomb was discovered and excavated in 1960 by Carlo Maurilio Lerici.
Sister Elizabeth, the mother superior of a medieval convent, has visions of Mary Magdalene and a skeletal dead nun. Father Henry, the abbot, and his servant Richard are summoned by the convent's abbess to help with the hysteria spreading among the order. Elizabeth recounts the confessions and fantasies of the nuns, flagellating herself and becoming excited as she does so: Sister Sarah masturbates; Sisters Mary and Helena flagellate one another and then have sex. Sister Catherine is violated by Fathers James and Peter.
Around this time Tynan started to insist on flagellating his wife, with the threat of his own suicide if she refused. Drugs, alcohol, and extramarital affairs by both parties resulted in the marriage becoming fraught, and it was dissolved in 1964. In 1962, she was a writer for the BBC's satirical That Was the Week That Was. Dundy eventually cured herself of addictions from 1968 to 1976 and maintained her initial success as an author, while living mainly in New York.
Pierre Broué theorized the unamed rightists were most likely the Ryutin group itself, it was difficulty to determine, since some of Trotsky's letters were probably destroyed. The bloc most likely dissolved after 1933, when Zinoviev and Kamenev joined Stalin yet another time. After again admitting their alleged errors, they were readmitted in December 1933. They were forced to make self-flagellating speeches at the XVIIth Party Congress in January 1934, where Stalin paraded his erstwhile political opponents, showing them to be defeated and outwardly contrite.
Gary convinces Al to help him, and they find Gabriel in the basement of a church where he is self-flagellating. Gabriel reveals that Lucas is the Antichrist and tells them to travel to Bethlehem to find Gozamel the demon hunter. Gary and Al view a television news report on rioting due to the Apocalypse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, realizing that is where they need to go. They find Gozamel, who informs them they must kill the child with the Knife of Destiny to prevent the end of the world.
Pierre Broué theorized the unnamed rightists were most likely the Ryutin group itself, it was difficulty to determine, since some of Trotsky's letters were missing and were probably destroyed. The bloc most likely dissolved after 1933, when Zinoviev and Kamenev joined Stalin yet another time. After again admitting their supposed mistakes, they were readmitted to the Party in December 1933. They were forced to make self-flagellating speeches at the XVIIth Party Congress in January 1934, with Stalin parading his erstwhile political opponents, now defeated and outwardly contrite.
Critics would go on to praise it for its unflinching, self- flagellating lyrics, and a decisive stylistic break with the grunge style epitomized by Nirvana and Mudhoney. Gentlemen would place at No. 17 on The Village Voice's "Pazz & Jop" critic's poll for 1993. Gentlemen proved to be The Afghan Whigs' most commercially successful release. The singles "Debonair" (a Modern Rock Top 20 hit) and "Gentlemen" received regular airplay on MTV and college radio; another album track, "Fountain and Fairfax," also appeared on the television series My So-Called Life in 1994.
In the latter part of 1399 there arose bands of self-flagellating penitents, known as the Bianchi, or Albati ("White Penitents"), especially in Provence, where the Albigenses had been exterminated less than a century before. Their numbers spread to Spain and northern Italy. These evoked uneasy memories of the mass processions of wandering flagellants of the Black Death period, 1348—1349. They went in procession from city to city, clad in white garments, with faces hooded, and wearing on their backs a red cross, following a leader who carried a large cross.
A few fictional creations, such as Marlon Brando's performance in Viva Zapata! and Robert Jordan, the protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, are included as well. Janet Maslin's review of Worth the Fighting For in The New York Times called the interspersed format "curious" and said there was a lot of McCain "shooting from the hip ... in this unpredictable, outspoken memoir." She noted that McCain's treatment of himself frequently adopted a "confessional, self- flagellating tone" and that McCain was wistfully frank about the ambition behind his failed presidential bid.
Florida, 1969. 8-year-old Tommy Wheeler is incorrectly seen as mentally-impaired by many of the local townspeople, lives alone with his skanky mother, Connie Mae, a sex shop owner. This emotionally troubled child also struggles with painful memories of his abusive, estranged father, Tom, whose mistreatment he recreates in a self- flagellating manner by systematically subjecting himself to the sadism of the 12-year-old local bully, Bear Hadley. While the town barber, George Burgess, a psychotic religious nut, obsesses over Connie Mae, Tommy fantasizes about watching the town fireworks from atop the local lighthouse.
In subsequent interviews, he would confess to having had problems with cannabis addiction during this time, and even to having spent time sectioned in a psychiatric hospital.Melody Maker interview, circa 1996 Due to these factors, the completion of the band's second album, Daddy Always Wanted Me To Grow A Pair of Wings was delayed by a year. It was preceded by two singles: the self- flagellating "Liar Liar" (which charted at No. 60) and a follow-up, "Mad Dog", which failed to chart. As with Take Dis, the album was produced by and featured various Chumbawamba members.
Gilberto Alejandro Durán Diaz, known to all as Alejo Durán or "El Negro Grande" (the great black Man) (February 9, 1919 – November 15, 1989) was a Colombian vallenato music traditional composer, singer and accordionist. Duran was born in El Paso, Cesar and lived his last years in Planeta Rica He is notorious for lyrically "self-flagellating" himself in his songs. In 1968 Duran gained notoriety for winning the first version of the "Vallenato Legend Festival" in the city of Valledupar and is often cited as one of the best Vallenato musician of all times. He died in Montería, Córdoba.
He was then sent as part of a team of missionaries in 1600 with Lawrence of Brindisi to Bohemia after Pope Clement VIII ordered that missionaries be sent there to evangelize; he was stationed there until 1603. He often was troubled with leg pains and often fasted in addition to flagellating himself for half an hour and wearing a hairnet; he slept little and often on a wooden plank. He died on 30 April 1625 after a period of ill health. He went for an operation on a hernia in Lent but his health declined and this led to his death not long after.
As the procession passed, the Romans implored the crucifix to intercede on the city's behalf with calls of "Mercy, Holy Crucifix!" while flagellating themselves. The city authorities, mindful of contagion, attempted unsuccessfully to halt the procession. According to local tradition, as the crucifix toured a neighbourhood, the people of that neighbourhood were allegedly cured of the Black Death, so that each neighbourhood sought to have the crucifix stay with them as long as possible. By the time the crucifix reached St Peter's, the plague had begun to ebb in the city,Pullella, Phillip (April 10, 2020) "On Good Friday, Pope hears sorrows of prisoners and victims" Reuters and eventually in the whole Italian Peninsula.
199 Livescu also notes that Lecca's preferred method included "savaging our social forms and flagellating our lack of character [...] within a melancholy atmosphere, sometimes depressing, sometimes carried by discreet poetry".Livescu, p. 62 In 1902, he contributed such criticism in an unprecedented form, at a National Theater recital given by Aristizza Romanescu and Constantin Nottara: he added to Heliade's classic poem, Zburătorul, lyrics of his own, with political hints.Constantin Bacalbașa, Bucureștii de altă dată, Vol. III, pp. 24–25. Bucharest: Universul, 1936 Already by Quinta, Lecca, who directed his own plays (with "taste and mastery of scenography", according to Livescu), had stabilized his preferred team of actors, which included Demetriade, Livescu, Romanescu, and Nottara.
With this public outcry against her work, the police once more began to act against her and those who supported her. In 1955, they successfully took the proprietor of a local restaurant, the Kashmir, to court, for displaying some of her works publicly. That same year, the police raided Norton and Greenlees' home, and accused them of performing "an unnatural sexual act", evidence for which they had obtained in a photograph displaying Greenlees in ritual garb flagellating Norton's buttocks. It was subsequently revealed that the photos had been taken at Norton's birthday party, and stolen by two members of their coven, Francis Honer and Raymond Ager, who planned to sell it to The Sun newspaper for £200.Drury 2009. pp. 40-41.
When Romulus complains that a low fertility rate has rendered the abduction of the Sabine women pointless, Juno, in her guise as the birth goddess Lucina, offers an instruction: "Let the sacred goat go into the Italian matrons" (Italidas matres … sacer hirtus inito, with the verb inito a form of inire).T.P. Wiseman, Historiography and Imagination: Eight Essays on Roman Culture (University of Exeter Press, 1994), p. 138, note 104, takes Juno's instruction as clear reference to Inuus. The would-be mothers recoil from this advice, but an augur, "recently arrived from Etruscan soil," offers a ritual dodge: a goat was killed, and its hide cut into strips for flagellating women who wished to conceive; thus the aetiology for the practice at the Lupercalia.
Yet, on leaving the Church of the Jesuit College, in the direction of the Convent of Saint Andrew, the holy image (to the wonder and amazement of all) fell outside the grounds, and immediately all seismic activities ceased. This was seen as divine intervention; some supplicated themselves on the ground at the place that image fell, praying to God and asking for pity, others flagellating themselves, while others cried out their faults and begged God for His intersession. Meanwhile, there was little damage to the image (apart from observed damage on the right arm), and the image was washed and cleaned at the Convent of Saint Andrew. As the procession continued, the tears and sobs of the distressed faithful continued well into the night even as they returned to the Convent of Our Lady of Hope.
Hesther Salomon, a magistrate, asks her platonic friend Martin Dysart, a disillusioned psychiatrist who works with disturbed teenagers at a hospital in Hampshire, England, to treat a 17-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang after he blinded six horses with a sickle. With Alan only singing TV commercial jingles, Martin goes to see the boy's parents, the non-religious Frank Strang and his Christian fundamentalist wife Dora. She had taught her son the basics of sex and that God sees all, but the withdrawn Alan replaced his mother's deity with a god he called Equus, incarnated in horses. Frank discloses to Martin that he witnessed Alan late at night in his room, haltered and flagellating himself, as he chanted a series of names in Biblical genealogy- fashion which culminated in the name Equus as he climaxed.
Iranian children wearing keffiyehs in a Shia ritual for remembrance of Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn In the Hosseini infancy conference, babies wear green or white cloth like cloth of Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn Ali al-Asghar is buried along with his brother Ali al-Akbar and his father Husayn in Karbala, Iraq, which is now one of the most visited shrines in the world.Journeys of Tears, published by the Wessex Jamaat Ali al-Asghar and his death are commemorated in various ways, including iconographic depictions, hagiography recitations (rowzeh), poetry (nowheh), replicas of Ali Asghar's cradle and grave, and dolls representing him. according to Shia ritual shahadat-e-Ali asghar is on 9th moharram night however, he was killed 71st before imam Husayn. During nowheh, women perform self-flagellating rituals (sineh-sarpay or aza-sarpay) in which they move around (sineh-dowr) a cradle replica and hit their chests with their hands.
"A narrative does not depart from the cardinal rule: Make nothing up or you'll be out of here and working at the Sunglass Hut so fast it'll make your head spin around. A narrative is a journalistic form that has fallen into considerable disfavor in the wake of our craft's ceaseless, self-flagellating credibility crisis" — Patrick Beach, Austin American-Statesman Since so much of narrative journalism is based on a writer reconstructing his or her experiences, many professionals in the news industry find themselves wary of using this technique because it is often harder to verify facts within the story. In a post-Jayson Blair era, those concerned with the ethics of honest reporting and writing are cautious of journalistic storytelling that may be manipulating facts to make the reader more emotionally invested. Also, narrative journalism has not yet found a definite home in the newsroom because of the nature of news reporting.

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