Sade


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Sade

 (säd, săd), Comte Donatien Alphonse François de Known as "Marquis de Sade." 1740-1814.
French writer of novels, plays, and short stories characterized by a preoccupation with sexual violence.
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Sade

(sɑːd)
n
(Biography) Comte Donatien Alphonse François de (dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃s frɑ̃swa də), known as the Marquis de Sade. 1740–1814, French soldier and writer, whose exposition of sexual perversion gave rise to the term sadism
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Sade

(sɑd, sæd)

n.
Donatien Alphonse François, Comte de (Marquis de Sade), 1740–1814, French novelist: notorious for his tales of sexual gratification through the infliction of pain.
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Noun1.Sade - French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
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"Say, Sade, I made a date for dinner this evening with Piggy."
Lauren Hall, Elisha Jones, Kari Baker and Sade Baker came third in the 12 and under quartet final.
"When I returned the car I asked a person if we needed to look it over, but he said don't worry and just to put the keys in a box," said Sade. "I have asked for a quote as to why it was PS75, as the damage is so small and I am positive I did not cause it."
But insofar as they focus on the (objectionable) political sympathies and impact of writers, whether literary authors like Sade and Montherlant or fellow philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, they also form a tacit literary ethics comparable to Sartre's "What is Literature?" Together with Beauvoir's interventions in literary debates of the 1960s (gathered in "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Essays), they develop her unique sense of what it would mean for literature to be "committed."
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Despite Sade's continuous refrain of "il faut tout dire," his chef-d'oeuvre contains numerous moments of accepted silence and secret activities, seemingly in direct contrast with the copious details presented in other sections of the work.
Non sans dessein, Sade immisce progressivement le lecteur dans l'intimite de Leonore a travers deux filtres masculins.
The song tells the story and lifestyle of Sade, a lady he met while schooling at Lancaster University, Ghana.
The couple and their three children noticed Sade was feeling sick on Sunday, August 19, so monitored her overnight - but, by Monday morning, she had collapsed and the family rushed her to the vets.