Word: martyrize
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...idea," concedes a G.O.P. Congressman. "You fulfill the contract's promise to vote on the issue -- there's no pledge of actual passage -- while minimizing the chances of its becoming law. As Newt says, if you're artful, 'you can favor public policy without having to be a martyr...
...society that seeks to crush what is different, lest the shades of its own guilty past reappear to haunt its members. Impropriety is a crime punishable by death. Val is no innocent, and Caughey's nuanced performance acknowledges the complexity of the character. But he is a martyr. Sheriff Talbott and his men make for an odd band of Maenads, but after all, this is Tennessee Williams...
...mayor, Breneman says, "rises to the status of martyr in the eyes of many if the only voice that raises questions about the way he spends the taxpayers' money gets labeled with the r-word...
...took just two hours for a Pensacola, Florida, jury to convict former minister Paul Hill of violating the new federal abortion-clinic access law by shooting an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. He was also convicted of one federal firearm charge. Hill, acting as his own attorney, had played martyr in arguing the June 29 murders of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett were justifiable -- calling no witnesses, cross-examining no one and supplying burning rhetoric in lieu of evidence. His closing statement today: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take...
...itself is not unusual, but the level of distrust is extremely high. Right now, that distrust is exactly what Quayle needs. He has the opportunity to play up the criticism he received from liberals and the press; he could create a backlash against them and look like a martyr for his cause...