Word: martyrdom
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...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
...Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with a diaphanous light suggesting England...
Reprieved from martyrdom, the Daily Worker, admittedly controlled and owned by the British section of the Third International, went to work, arranged a public stock issue to pay for replacements of its blitzed presses, planned, as promised, to help Britain win the war. First issue, it announced, would appear at the national trade-union meeting...
...affair of origin"-by their separateness from the native Catholic Irish who islanded their existence. Outside Bowen's Court rolled the violent bloody history of Ireland. The Bowens looked the other way. "The structure of the great Anglo-Irish society was raised over a country in martyrdom. To enjoy prosperity" (and enjoy it most of the Bowens did) "one had to exclude feeling, or keep it within the prescribed bounds...
...Jones once dramatized Pastor Martin Niemoller's martyrdom at the hands of the Nazis. He had himself hauled out of his Brooklyn pulpit by a posse dressed up like Gestapo agents before the eyes of his startled Brooklyn congregation...