Word: martyrizing
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...claim that Chessman's twelve years under sentence of death constitute "cruel and unusual punishments," in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But Caryl Chessman himself seemed to have little hope for any of the plans. He seemed resigned to playing out his role of martyr to capital punishment. Standing at the barred door of his cell after he got the expected news that the judiciary committee had blocked Brown's proposal, Chessman managed to summon a wry smile. "I have had nine execution dates, and have been spared eight times," he said...
Inviting the Chicago Sun-Times's Irv Kupcinet and the New York Herald Tribune's Hy Gardner to grill him on the air, Paar answered their questions with the air of a do-it-yourself martyr. At one point he shed tears, telling about his ten-year-old daughter's problem of being overweight and how New York World-Telegram and Sun Columnist Harriet Van Home had called attention to it (when Randy Paar made one of her frequent appearances with papa). "Who the hell is that broad," said Paar, "to talk about my daughter...
...shouts: "We mean to get out of their damned federation. One cannot exclude violence. Africa is on the move. You cannot stop us!" Britain's Colonial Office wants Banda released, but Nyasaland's local authorities have stalled for fear the freeing of Nyasaland's martyr might touch off an orgy of exultant nationalism...
...Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...
...patron saint, the Blessed Martyr Leibowitz (canonized in the course of the novel), was an electronics engineer strangled and roasted alive by the mob in the anti-scientist massacres following the Flame Deluge. Among the memorabilia which the monastery preserves are scraps of books and diagrams that gradually result in the rediscovery of electricity and other appurtenances of the "Golden Age'' of the 20th century. Proud as Jove, the blind earthlings hurl the megatons all over again. At novel's end, a picked band of the monks, bravely singing old space chanteys, boards a "starship" for outer...