self-immolating

American  

[self-im-uh-ley-ting, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈɪm əˌleɪ tɪŋ, ˈsɛlf- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.

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Example Sentences

To some, the self-immolating media blitz recast Crowley as willing to speak truth to power and stand up for her troops amid one of the worst urban firestorms in California history.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the past three weeks, the once highly anticipated movie has become a spectacle in all the wrong ways, with its director, Olivia Wilde, self-immolating on the publicity trail.

From New York Times

Even in an oft-sacked city that has seen it all over the centuries, where people have more recently grown accustomed to self-immolating buses, potholes as deep as water wells and myriad other indignities, the garbage — pervasive, pungent and unrelenting — has become the true metric of Rome’s decline.

From New York Times

Which brings me back to Washington, whose trajectory from weary, diffident soldier to raving, self-immolating maniac is astonishing to behold.

From New York Times

The book’s most gobsmacking moment may be that the initial psychiatric insight into Weiner’s self-immolating behavior is credited to “some narcissist issues.”

From Washington Post