Word: martyrize
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...genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Orson Welles...
...genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Orson Welles...
...that is just what is happening to him right now. But he is still unwilling to see that excess in loyalty can be as dangerous as excess almost anywhere else. Hurt at being raked over the coals for a loyalty which he considered a virtue, Mitchell unmistakably played the martyr at the hearings. He left his pipe behind--casting it aside like an enraged Ahab, ready to face the world without the aid of comfort. And he left Martha behind, so he could appear, alone and forlorn, as a man oppressed...
...genga trade--shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody--the old Hollywood style Western hero has become the outcast; on the run, a wanted man, his record becomes a super hit; a doomed man, he reaps a martyr's glory--at this point the movie gets boring--he makes fools out of the cops a bit longer and then gets shot up on the beach. Orson Welles...
...Republic's history, Irish voters elected a Protestant to the largely ceremonial office of President. He is London-born Erskine Childers, 67, a former Cabinet member, son of Robert Erskine Childers, an Englishman who involved himself in the Irish struggle for independence and paid for it with a martyr's death. Erskine Childers, who is a member of the conservative Fianna Fail, which lost control of the government three months ago, defeated Thomas O'Higgins, the candidate of the governing Fine Gael and Labor coalition, by a vote of 636,162 to 587,577. When he starts...