self-immolating
Americanadjective
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At one point, she appears pained by a television report on the Vietnam War, showing a self-immolating monk; her unhappiness about becoming a mother is also offered as a plausible explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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 ● Dec. 22, 2021
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
You loved him with a passionate, self-immolating love.
From Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair
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