self-immolating

[ self-im-uh-ley-ting, self- ]

adjective

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

Example Sentences

Granted, Obama has the added advantage of facing a self-immolating opposition party.

From The Daily Beast

Her docile, yielding temper—her generous, self-immolating spirit—came back to his memory, to refute the idea that wronged her.

From Project Gutenberg

You are the last man I should have thought capable of such self-immolating idealism.

From Project Gutenberg

In Elgin religious fervour was not beautiful, or dramatic, or self-immolating; it was reasonable.

From Project Gutenberg

I should like to place a wreath on the tomb of another apostle of liberty—the dauntless, the self-immolating Colenso!

From Project Gutenberg

"It is one thing to be generous, and quite another to be a self-immolating ass," was one of the compliments he handed me.

From Project Gutenberg