Word: martyre
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...there's nothing inherently romantic about St. Valentine. The legends I've heard involve a third-century martyr stuck in a jail cell accepting tokens from little kids. Not exactly the stuff of hearts and paper doilies...
...limited value. It's not uncommon to run across people who imagine that Hesse, a highly intelligent artist with deep wells of melancholy and self-doubt, actually committed suicide or was in some way immolated on the altars of a sexist art world. But she wasn't an art martyr, and this sort of lumpen-feminist romanticism is totally beside the point of Hesse's life. She was avid to live and knew that the cancer was killing her just at the moment that her work was reaching its full eloquence. This knowledge was unbearable, but she refused...
...Juan, sucking the innocence out of his conquests. He is the Flying Dutchman, sailing the centuries for an incarnation of the woman he loved. He is Death, transmitting a venereal plague in his blood, in his kiss. He is even Jesus, speaking Jesus' last words as he dies, a martyr whose mission is to redeem womankind. Husband, seducer, widower, murderer, Christ and Antichrist, Dracula contains multitudes. He is every mortal man and every mortality with which man threatens women...
...appears that everyone did everything to Basquiat, turning him into the all-purpose, inflatable martyr figure of recent American art. Mainly, they loaded him with more money than he knew what to do with and more praise than he could handle; the art market, like the ceiling of the Emperor Elagabalus, opened and smothered him in tons of roses. Some martyrdom...
...green pastures of Yankee Stadium with ineffable grace, ran the bases with speed and skill, and at the plate hit for both power and average. Yet all the while he was enduring torrents of abuse from his Grand Inquisitor, the Yankee owner. Winfield's role as the Yankee martyr struggling in the face of unbearable persecution reached epic proportions. He became Odysseus to Steinbrenner's Poseidon. Or perhaps you might call him Job DiMaggio...