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
Her poems tend to end up dramatic, breathtaking, alive with an almost self-immolating energy inseparable from youth, “hordes of kids riding bareback / off cliffs with satin ribbons in their hair & the horses’ manes.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018
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
In Elgin religious fervour was not beautiful, or dramatic, or self-immolating; it was reasonable.
From The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan
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