Word: martyrize
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...flesh and intellect. The protagonist, played by Albert Dieudonne, is a short, unimpressive young man. His long hair hangs listlessly about his shoulders, his arms clasped tightly behind him. But for his eyes, his face is hard and ex- pressionless, the face of a bandit or a martyr. His eyes are sharp, black. They scrutinize, and they attack...
...matched his own stern definition of a hero: someone willing "to live in toil, suffering, pain and sacrifice for years." Yet he was neither a political rabble-rouser nor a Christian martyr. Violence was abhorrent to him; indeed, his personal intercession helped prevent bloody clashes at more than one critical juncture in his nation's history. But no army of freedom fighters could have done more than Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski to wear down the all-embracing authority of Poland's atheistic Communist regime...
...number of women die in convulsive agony after giving birth. Because he dared to analyze the cause, Semmelweiss was hounded into madness by disbelieving colleagues and the inflexible Pooh-Bahs of European medicine. Despite a loving wife (Jeanne Koren) and sister (Mary Lou Rosato), he died as a historical martyr of truth...
...Ghost Writer, the promising young Zuckerman fancied that a Harvard researcher was Anne Frank. He even imagined marrying this martyr who had somehow survived the death camps. Fifteen years later, the author of Higher Education, Mixed Emotions, Reversed Intentions and the controversial Carnovsky has broken up with his wife. Laura was not an imagined Jewish saint but a selfless political activist. It was a hopeless match that Zuckerman might have novelized under the title "Mixed Intentions." "Hers is the cause of righteousness," he moans. "Yours the art of depiction...
...scarred, sad urban ghettos of Belfast, Londonderry and other Northern centers. As the clanging of garbage can lids announced the news of Sands' death, gangs of Catholic youths once again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that city; a Belfast policeman was shot...