Flagellation in a sentence

Being people who value selflessness, it can be easily turned into self-sacrifice and self-flagellation at the office.

Flagellation, masochism, transvestism, and the wide variety of fetishes appear to be products of conditioning, fortified sometimes by some other aspect of an individual’s personality and by inherent or acquired anatomic and physiologic capacities.

In contrast to all those events, the scriptural texts mentioning Jesus’ scourging or flagellation take up, at most, a total of seven verses across four Gospels.

The flagellation appears only to have begun, considering the limited wounds on his back, even though his legs are already buckling and his eyes rolling into the back of his head.

Isaac is a devout Muslim who also practices flagellation; that factor will come into play by the season’s end.

No microbe in the world, after all, could possibly withstand the flagellation with birch branch brooms that one receives at a traditional Belarusian banya.

One by one, Doroghy makes all the mistakes a rookie beekeeper possibly could, and he recounts his failures here with a humility that borders on self-flagellation.

Unfortunately, I see rather too much of this kind of self-flagellation on these pages.

He also apologized for the "black face" Day-O incident, I haven't seen any apology for the video of him in "black face" waving his arms and sticking his tongue at the camera but I'm sure it's included in his public self flagellation over his "mistakes".

When I typed the author's name into one Internet search engine, I scored eight hits, including sites on Satanism, eroticism, sadomasochism, and flagellation.

For those of us well past retail flagellation, it’s a day when the cricket commentary lulls us to sleep, while a ballet of yachts on Sydney harbour glides across the TV.

There’s nothing quite like white liberal self-flagellation to create misery for all races — it’s worse, in its effects, than colonialism.

The rituals of staging elaborate crucifixion reenactments (Passion Plays), public self-flagellation displays, and massive silent processions are specifically Mexican, with such events taking place nationwide from Palm Sunday to Easter Day.

Writing a weekly column about therapy and revealing details of my private life was in some ways an act of self-flagellation, of public humiliation.

As far back as the 1590s, flagellation within an erotic setting is recorded.

Flagellation was also rumored, possibly due to the similarity of their name to the word for "whip".

Here ritual flagellation called diamastigosis took place, in which young adolescent men were whipped in a ceremony overseen by the priestess.

In 1822, Britain repealed the death penalty for over 100 crimes, and punishments such as drawing and quartering and flagellation fell out of use.

Lawrence almost certainly engaged in flagellation and similar activities after the Deraa incident, but there is no biographical evidence that he was a masochist before then.

No fewer than twenty establishments were documented as having existed by the 1840s, supported entirely by flagellation practices and known as "Houses of Discipline" distinct from brothels.