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
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 ● Sep. 16, 2022
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
The protagonist of “Crucify” is tired of figuratively self-immolating, acting against her best interests or chasing after the wrong guy: “Every day I crucify myself/And my heart is sick of being in chains.”
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2017
There always have been, and probably always will be, men possessed of the self-immolating or martyr spirit.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
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