Word: martyrize
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...George, the class concluded that he was a masochist who often tried to conceal his aggressiveness behind a facade of passivity. Explained Vaillant: "George presents himself as a martyr, but he manages to torture everybody. His indifference is provocative, and that's one of the ways you diagnose someone as what we call 'passive-aggressive' and not indifferent...
...some mild admonition rather than the maximum penalty of disbarment. The irony is that the court acted, ostensibly, to protect its dignity but actually impaired it by seeming to suffer a bad case of the sulks. Whatever happens, Erdmann is likely to emerge either a hero or a martyr-or both...
...Your Essay on "Styles in Martyrdom" [Oct. 11] was timely and interesting. One point about martyrs seems to be ignored these days: the true martyr does not go around looking for martyrdom. Neither, as a rule, does he make dramatic, newsworthy gestures for their own sake...
...Your essayist, John T. Elson, surely chose a fine group of "martyrs." Why did he exclude "Dutch" Schultz? Schultz probably did less damage to society than Che Guevara. Elson's notion appears to be that anyone killed doing his thing is a martyr. The liberal-dominated press seldom speaks out now against the suppression of human liberties in countries like Hungary, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, but continues to blame the white race for being so long silent and inactive concerning the plight of its Negro brothers in the Old South and the new ghettos. Inconsistency, thou art a liberal...
...From the viewpoint of hagiography, the martyr is the ultimate Christian hero, the most noble of saints. Sociology, with a cooler eye, sees him as something else: a special kind of social deviant. As Sociologist Robert K. Merton points out, the "historically significant nonconformist," his own definition of martyr, often risks his life for a variety of motives, some noble, some not. There are cases, he notes, in which martyrdom may be little else than "an expression of primary narcissism" or "a need for punishment." Like Camus's Rebel, or Peter Viereck's "unadjusted man," the martyr...