The way it seems to work now, setting a New Year's resolution is a recipe for defeat. It has come to be one of the nation's most masochistic traditions.
Quotes about masochistic (9 Quotes)
If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.
I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.
The many meanings of 'I Love You' 'I love you' is a statement that can be expressed in so many varied ways. It may be a stage song, repeated daily without any meaning, or a barely audible murmur, full of surrender. Sometimes it means I desire you or I want you sexually. It may mean I hope you love me or I hope that I will be able to love you. Often it means it may be that a love relationship can develop between us or even I hate you. Often it is a wish for emotional exchange I want your admiration in exchange for mine or I give my love in exchange for some passion or I want to feel cozy and at home with you or I admire some of your qualities. A declaration of love is mostly a request I desire you or I want you to gratify me, or I want your protection or I want to be intimate with you or I want to exploit your loveliness. Sometimes it is the need for security and tenderness, for parental treatment. It may mean my self love goes out to you. But it may also express submissiveness please take me as I am, or I feel guilty about you, I want, through you, to correct the mistakes I have made in human relations. It may be self-sacrifice and a masochistic wish for dependency. However, it may also be a full affirmation of the other, taking the responsibility for mutual exchange of feelings. It may be a weak feeling of friendliness, it may be the scarcely even whispered expression of ecstasy 'I love you, ' - wish, desire, submission, conquest it is never the world itself that tells the real meaning here.
The White Sox had long ago tested the loyalty of their rooters the weak and faint of heart had fallen by the wayside and only the strong, the dedicated and the masochistic remained. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan freed a man from any other form of penance.
The analysis assumes that individuals maximize welfare as they conceive it, whether they be selfish, altruistic, loyal, spiteful, or masochistic. Their behavior is forward-looking, and it is also consistent over time.
The trip was supposed to be mostly downhill skiing, but we're three pretty avid cross-country skiers who weren't ready to give up on the season. I looked on the Internet for a race and this one looked like a challenge. It was masochistic fun.
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.