Word: martyrizing
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Predictably, Napolitano has received little pity. Despite her failure in court, she became the martyr for what may become a new and troubling movement on campus. By rationalizing cheating in her own mind. Napolitano narrowed the purpose and usefulness of higher education, reflecting a board new attitude towards college Aspirants like the ex-Princetonian seem to enter school with unmalieable objectives. The means to the end are unimportant, this breed gets what it wants...
...interest for politics while in college--who played court jester at football games, somersaulting and prancing around the sidelines, who trumpeted school spirit, staked more than his pride on gaining acceptance to one of Harvard's elite social clubs, and who lay buried inside the Kremlin wall--a martyr to the Russian revolution...
...sustain a picture alone, so he surrounds himself with high-voltage actors and situations, and he counts on the audience to look to him for relief. In John Reed, Beatty found a figure ideally suited to his own quiet narcissism--a modern saint, political innocent and martyr. And, rounding the character slightly by showing his insensitivity to others, "You love yourself; you fuck me" brays Diane Keaton) Beatty gives a smart, delicate performance, sleepy but cognizant, doggedly pursuing his ideals while the world blows up around...
...common cold's theatricality is so obvious that one can classify the styles of cold suffering by labeling the roles that get played: the hero (who insists on coming to work), the martyr (who cannot afford not to come to work), the opportunist (who would not dream of staying away from work for less than a week). To specialists like Robert H. Waldman, chairman of the department of medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, the cold as psychological event seems almost as clear. Waldman points out that the cold allows the typical adult to retreat from...
...McKellen, late of Amadeus and the Royal Shakespeare company, struggles in vain to play the part of the genius, falling several deciles short of the score. His Lawrence is less the Martyr of British Censorship than he is martyred by Alan Plater's offensive and vapid screenplay. At the mercy of lines such as."We writers, we're supposed to be brave," or "Better peoplethan me have been crucified," he tempts us to ask why tuberculosis could not have claimed him sooner and so spare us the pain...