self-immolating
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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 • Jan. 18, 2025
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 • Oct. 31, 2021
As working titles go for a three-volume history of English football’s self-immolating distrust of fancy dans, risk taking, big ideas and all the rest, you could do much worse.
From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2016
Much has been written about the self-immolating Paramount of the 1970s, a time of stupendous glory and equally outsize folly.
From New York Times • May 11, 2011
You loved him with a passionate, self-immolating love.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by Sinclair, May
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