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For the man on whom the archbishop smiled was Don Miguel Archibeque, longtime head of the self-torturing sect called Penitentes, which was officially banned by the church for almost 100 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He's incredibly insecure and very self-torturing," says Merrill Markoe, his former girlfriend, who helped create Late Night, devised such popular bits as Stupid Pet Tricks and wrote for the show until 1986.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the voice of the self-torturing '20s, filled with a sort of sobjectivity that one critic described as "the authentic note of heartbreak," and it went over big.

From Time Magazine Archive

His own ideal, which he never attempted to practise, is that of the self-torturing ascetics of the Christian Middle Age.

From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas

He was of a self-torturing spirit, constantly troubled with vague questionings, and though in this regard he was very much his father's son, the Deemster held his temperament in contempt.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir