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Recent Examples of self-immolation
But also, there’s a hunger for leadership in opposition to this administration, and the Democrats are losing an opportunity to be those leaders with their endless self-immolation.
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Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
According to Hindu mythology, the Hinglaj Devi temple is one of the sites where the remains of Sati, a goddess of marital devotion and longevity, fell to earth after her self-immolation.
—Zia Ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez, New York Times, 30 May 2025
The self-immolation, which resulted in Azzarello’s death, set a dramatic and dark tone at the trial’s outset but ultimately faded into the background of the historic case.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 28 May 2025
Playing him was a kind of self-immolation for Tesfaye.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 May 2025
The last flareup in the early 2010s involved a string of self-immolation incidents that critics called a desperate cry against the Chinese government’s ever-tightening grip on Tibetan society.
—Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
Gough’s performance is a savage self-immolation of a woman who only knows how to feign joy — and then only ever in extremis — but equally crucial to the moment is the clothing that costume designer Michael Wilkinson arms her with.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025
It was sparked by the self-immolation of a Tunisian street vendor to protest police corruption and abuses.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
Pryor, though, largely lost his bite after his self-immolation, which the film (and later Pryor’s family) characterized as a suicide attempt.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
According to Hindu mythology, the Hinglaj Devi temple is one of the sites where the remains of Sati, a goddess of marital devotion and longevity, fell to earth after her self-immolation.
—Zia Ur-Rehman Asim Hafeez, New York Times, 30 May 2025
The self-immolation, which resulted in Azzarello’s death, set a dramatic and dark tone at the trial’s outset but ultimately faded into the background of the historic case.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 28 May 2025
Playing him was a kind of self-immolation for Tesfaye.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 May 2025
The last flareup in the early 2010s involved a string of self-immolation incidents that critics called a desperate cry against the Chinese government’s ever-tightening grip on Tibetan society.
—Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
Gough’s performance is a savage self-immolation of a woman who only knows how to feign joy — and then only ever in extremis — but equally crucial to the moment is the clothing that costume designer Michael Wilkinson arms her with.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2025
It was sparked by the self-immolation of a Tunisian street vendor to protest police corruption and abuses.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
Pryor, though, largely lost his bite after his self-immolation, which the film (and later Pryor’s family) characterized as a suicide attempt.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-immolation
Noun
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And he is compelled by a righteous fury to warn others of his son’s dark path to self-annihilation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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This, at his best, is Crews’s subject: the relationship between art and self-annihilation—and whether the price of becoming the boy in the picture is too high to be paid by the one stumbling through the dark.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Ever since Kamala Harris lost the election, the Democratic Party has been on a nationwide self-flagellation tour.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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But if the director was already critical of his country beforehand, the place is in such a dire state right now that his only response this time seems to be a form of cinematic self-flagellation.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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“Self-immolation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-immolation. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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