Leave to one side the sexual overtones, which verge toward the onanistic.

She blushed, feeling, perhaps, that she'd betrayed a secret onanistic intimacy.

This fury can look like an onanistic or a solipsistic fury.

The chariot and its onanistic litany, he wrote.

She's taken the advice of a depraved, heathenish instrument of onanistic pleasure, and this is where it's led her.

Onanistic Orangutan?

Onanistic whatnow?

In this coded space, erotic contact becomes an onanistic hallucination and the body disappears into a mental universe of mediated masks.

Confusing past conditions in coal mining with alleged future effects of its product in order to provide a kind of typical Guardianistic onanistic fantasy.

Weiner's sins, being wholly online, basically onanistic, pathetically "immature," and totally without direct fleshly carnality, are literally ridiculous.

An image from The Devils (1971), "a film in which no conceivable horror was overlooked, swarming with the by now familiar onanistic and highly disturbed nuns".

Vito Acconci's "Open/Close," a playfully onanistic anatomical study made in 1970, looks at the hairy naked male body as a comically gross piece of sculpture.

It's difficult to get the words out, but he - via the literal restoration of the monarchy and the jettisoning of onanistic politicians - might be our best bet yet.

Or maybe it is the eyes of one of the eight naked Ray-like figures that stare out from the onanistic proceedings in his most talked-about sculpture, the 1992 "Oh!

As self-styled bards of varying talent read verse ranging from onanistic reveries to logistically complex scenarios involving barnyard animals, Ms. Radakovich offered occasional asides.

Writing in the Observer, James Purdon commented that "In form as well as subject matter, this is probably the most twitchily onanistic fiction since Portnoy's Complaint".

A sexual charge runs through much of the material, from the go-go dancers filmed by Dominic De Joseph to the vaguely onanistic teen-agers shot by Lance Bangs.

There's something that would feel, and be, very onanistic about that-you really shouldn't spend that much time thinking about yourself or what you're writing, because you could overthink it and become completely stymied.

Technical difficulties in the analysis of a case of hysteria: Including observations of larval forms of onanism and onanistic equivalents (J. I. Suttie, Trans.)

A columnist in Newsweek wrote of the Dunblane massacre, "Onanistic solitude, lived out in a fantasy world ruled by terror and thrilled by incessant gunfire, poses a lethal combination.

I disagree with the annotator, though, who thinks that this masterwork "is a prescient send-up of the kind of onanistic egotism endemic to the age of Facebook and YouTube."

He plays up the onanistic, infantile side of masculine creativity while lampooning sundry artistic myths, including van Gogh's ear, the Austrian Actionists and Bruce Nauman's early home-alone videotapes.

Nearby is a tall, gouged, onanistic figure whose face mask is the same as the youthful face of a bronze head lying at its feet, surrounded by fresh petals and shards of ruined mirrors.