What devotion, what courage, what self-immolation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

What will be the consequences of his self-immolation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In 'Still Here,' A Fully Committed Joaquin Phoenix] Reference

An orgy of tears and self-immolation for us both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Read-Aloud Plays] Reference

Thousands of women turn to self-immolation every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anand Gopal: What You Should Know About Women's Rights in Afghanistan] Reference

He marveled at her self-immolation in this lonely house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Just over the fence in the direction of self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women On Top In LaBute's Latest] Reference

His self-immolation on SNL I think is evidence enough of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Campaign "In The Red"] Reference

Even if this reads like slavery or self-immolation, what do you care?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

You and I are going to have a front-row seat for their self-immolation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judge Sonia Has Her Day] Reference

The level of self-immolation among women was never as high as it is now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rethink Afghanistan: Debunking the Myths About Women's Rights in Afghanistan] Reference

She had not asked too much; but great prayers always imply self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

Truly, this is the most awful self-immolation of any political campaign ever!.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Bailout Package Failure, Is McCain's Campaign Suspension Stunt Backfiring?] Reference

Now self-immolation and the suicide rate among Afghan women are at an all time high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Lopez: The Real Story Behind Time's Afghan Woman Cover: American Complicity] Reference

Other deaths by self-immolation followed: Jan Zajic in Prague, Evzen Plocek in Jihlava.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Martyr] Reference

Spencer jumped in late, in a seppuku-style act of self-immolation, after Pirro self-destructed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Hillary's "Experience" Argument And Obama's "Change" Argument Both Working] Reference

Thirty years later, the greatest threat that Italians face is one of demographic self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italia, R.I.P.] Reference

Americans aren't virtuous enough to embrace the joys of self-immolation – and that's the good news.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: RAIMONDO: Katrina, Iraq, and the End of 'National Greatness'] Reference

Like Welles, he is also no stranger to grandiosity, bunkum, overreach, self-immolation, and red ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberation of Francis Ford Coppola] Reference

As for the suicides, during the Vietnam War, Buddhist monks committed similar acts of self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Their desperate courage in support of a cause they have at heart is an inspiration of self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

He set a very, very high bar for weirdness and for self - revelatory embarrassment and self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2009] Reference

He continued: “You see a country that glorifies blood and death, including its own self-immolation.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benjamin Netanyahu's Recipe for Disaster] Reference

George being George, his first act of idiocy led to a veritable cascade of further idiocy and self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Technology Making Us Idiots?] Reference

So, to be this disorganized, self-sniping and imploding was, in perspective, the equivalent of self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CPAC: The Party's Over] Reference

That spontaneous self-immolation which marks the love of pure and vigorous natures lies beyond its intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

And the national story, from the Democratic point of view, the Republicans are engaged in self-immolation right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2006] Reference

I want Norman contemplating the respective values of self-immolation or self-imposed exile to a third-world country.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Recount Complete And More Ballots Counted, Franken's Lead Appears To Be Insurmountable] Reference

"You'll have to do without a great many things!" cried Richard, horrified by what seemed to him her blind self-immolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference

But, when the moment had come for the self-immolation, their courage failed, their knees trembled, their lips became pale as death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference

And here I thought Obama's cutthroat team of Chicagoans might deviate from the Kerry/Gore self-immolation strategies of yesteryear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: McCain Takes Lead In Key Swing State Of Missouri] Reference

They certainly do not deny the option of suicide in poltical protest, as evidenced by the occasional self-immolation of their monks.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Nothing short of a fiery self-immolation could satisfy Stoller, who bashes Democrats with more gusto than do the editors of Red State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Explains Missed MoveOn Vote: "I Registered My Protest"] Reference