self-immolation
Example Sentences
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If he endured personal anguish after the failure of his first marriage or the self-immolation of legacy journalism, we get no hint of it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, these reporters can’t help but do what they do, so in love with their jobs, they press on, smiling at their own self-immolation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Scholars of the history of self-immolation typically date the phenomenon to antiquity, to early Christian martyrdoms, and particularly to the Hindu practice of sati.
From Salon • May 4, 2024
Professors of political science don’t generally cause a stir, but intellectual self-immolation is a rare spectacle.
From Slate • Nov. 21, 2022
She felt that she was coming to a supreme sacrifice, self-immolation, but that the setting was superb and the climax must be magnificent!
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
