Thrashings

Seduced by her intelligence and beauty, the married Jung violates the doctor/patient relationship and becomes Sabina's lover, salting their encounters with the thrashings she finds exciting. ❋ Erica Abeel (2011)

Instead, Mr. Liebrandt has taken some notorious thrashings from food critics. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

Steve Albini's live-in-the-studio recording suits the band's hooky, minor-chord thrashings and knotty post-rock workouts down to the ground. ❋ Unknown (2012)

West Brom and Wigan were both subjected to six-goal thrashings and conventional wisdom held that Chelsea was a near-indestructible machine destined to retain its title with ease. ❋ Jonathan Clegg (2011)

Previous Europa League group stage away days had preceded four- and five‑goal thrashings by Sunderland and Bolton Wanderers, respectively. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While thrashings like this are common in the preliminary rounds of European competitions, this was the European Cup proper and Arad were by no means pushovers – several of their players, including Gornea himself, went to the World Cup just months later. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Jolis mocks, but cocoa was a very real driver of violence and venality in the Ivory Coast; timber helped fund the final thrashings of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and minerals such as tin and tantalum are exacerbating fighting in the Congo. ❋ Unknown (2010)

None of America's oil and gas billionaires was among the Big Oil chieftains summoned to Washington this week for thrashings in Congress and at the White House. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It would not take too many thrashings for Pakistan to follow its inclinations and concentrate overwhelmingly on the one-day game. ❋ David Hopps At Edgbaston (2010)

Of the two, Slater initially seems the cool, grounded one, while Martin is prone to galvanic spasms and beached-salmon thrashings. ❋ Unknown (2010)