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Example sentences for: martyr

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It made her story too readily available to people who wanted to see her as a victim, or a crusader, or a martyr to art.
Lest one think I'm exaggerating Katz's martyr complex, check out Virtuous Reality 's Chapter 7, in which he chronicles the life and times of another political rebel who embraced a new technology to speak truth to power and suffered greatly for it: Thomas Paine.
3) His martyr pose is pretentious and self-serving.
JFK's assassination changed everything but the feud, which only intensified as the martyr's shadow loomed ever larger.
And I think, earlier this year, of Serbia, where the bones of Prince Lazar, the martyr of the battle against the Turks in 1389, have become hallowed in history and whose legends were written down by church scribes and canonized in cycles of folk poetry.