Word: martyrize
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...Bone. The book's main charm, and it is considerable, is the character of Jenny. She is brash, forthright and funny. When OIlie gets pompous she calls him "Preppie." When he reaches for a martyr's mantle, she points out that he is probably in love with her "negative social status." Says Segal: "I call it to-the-bone truth. She sees through him, as true love does...
Carswell's announcement was greeted with enthusiasm in much of the South, where he recently became a hero and a martyr after the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court. Florida's Republican Senator Edward Gurney extolled the ex-judge as a "dream" candidate and "unbeatable" in the G.O.P.'s effort to take over the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
...malice in Dorothy's transformation of her favorite farmhands into a scarecrow, a tinman and a lion. Similarly, Rolfe as Pope Hadrian VII can launch heroic reforms in the Church, patronize innocent Agnes with her pickled onions and her rooming house, and (last but not least) become a glorious martyr. Rolfe is assassinated by Jeremiah Sant, the fiery Ulsterman who aids Mrs. Crowe the landlady in blackmail schemes. His dream rounds out his neurotic life ambitions with a thoroughness missing even in Putney Swope...
...King's soldiers. It is the study of a man who has the choice of deciding his own fate, or submitting himself to the will of the inevitable, the will of his God. His torment lies in the fact that either choice will result in the same outcome-a martyr's death. Becket finds such a death to be the ultimate path to his long-held desires for power and glory; humble submission to the will of God demands the same sacrifice. Salvation or damnation will in the end be determined by whether or not he accepts his fate...
...with a weakness for Diet-Rite Cola who cannot spare enough time from the cause for his wife and eight children. But that's about it. Clues to Chavez's character and motivation lie scattered all through the book. Perhaps the most provocative is the "martyr's shelf" behind his desk at the headquarters of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which includes photographs of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, as well as busts of John Kennedy and Lincoln...