Word: martyrize
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Tshombe's popularity was low to begin with. He is widely regarded in Africa as a tool of European colonialism and the murderer of the Congo's first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba has become one of the greatest heroes of African nationalism and the martyr of the Congo's fight for independence...
...Martyr's Trial? Put that way, Pike's proposal made a measure of sense-although the sermon probably confirmed the belief of his critics that Pike is a secret Unitarian. Snapped Bishop Edward Welles of West Missouri: "When Bishop Pike presumes unilaterally to declare the dogma of the Trinity to be nonessential, one wonders if he is not surrendering to a deep-rooted psychological compulsion to become a martyr. Perhaps he yearns to be tried for heresy...
...audience never really believes that the robust Quinn is an aging, frightened, sycophantic shopkeeper, or that Ingrid Bergman could be so cruel. She is more martyr than Medea, and thus the film's climax-appropriately altered -turns its grand vindictive triumph into a puny game...
...even as the rifles of the firing squad barked, Chaabani's men were still dug in on the mountains to the east. They had lost a leader, but they may have gained a martyr...
...condition, then stir up riots in the hope that they will furnish a dead Negro martyr...