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sadismPsychosexual disorder in which sexual urges are gratified by inflicting pain on another person. The term was coined in reference to the marquis de Sade, who chronicled his own such practices. Sadism is often linked to masochism, and many individuals who have one tendency also have the other. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In a precise eighteenth-century voice Octavian narrates the details of life at the College: the sadism and the indulgence of its fellows, the distant love of his mother (a former African princess), and his growing friendship with the slave Pro Bono, who schools fellow slave Octavian in the reality that exists in the world beyond the surreality of the College. But when Nikki reveals her sadism, instead of protecting the children, Murdoch walks away. This seems less a case of exercising due diligence than a case of judicial sadism. |
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