Sacher-Masoch

[ zah-khuhr-mah-zohkh ]

noun

1. Le·o·pold von [ley, -oh-pohlt f, uh, n], 1836–95, Austrian novelist.

Example Sentences

This comics biography looks at the life of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th-century author who wrote frankly of his desire to be sexually submissive and whose name lives on in the word “masochism.”

From New York Times

Her mother, just as improbably, was the Austrian Baroness Eva von Sacher-Masoch — the great-niece of the man who wrote the sensationally scandalous novella “Venus in Furs” and from whose name we are blessed with the word masochism.

From New York Times

Emotion and tactility were two words thrown around by the two at the news conference and alluded to in a set built from rooms covered in wool shearling in the hues of Jordan almonds — part Sacher-Masoch, part Meret Oppenheim.

From New York Times

Yes, Ms. Faithfull really is related to the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose work inspired the term “masochism.”

From New York Times

In David Ives’s thigh-high play, first seen at Classic Stage Company, then on Broadway and latterly as a Roman Polanski movie, a struggling actress, Vanda, auditions for a role in an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s steamy novel, “Venus in Fur.”

From New York Times