Sentence examples for martyrdom with from inspiring English sources

Kevin Pietersen manipulates the myth of his martyrdom with the relish he once reserved for milking mediocre bowling.

The bomber's family and the sponsoring organization celebrate his martyrdom with festivities, as if it were a wedding.

Over the past week he has also cloaked himself in martyrdom with rousing speeches about the persecution of the pious by Turkey's erstwhile secular rulers.

On stage was the essence of a movement many believe could transform Iraqi politics, blending the centuries-old symbolism of Shiite sacrifice and martyrdom with a martial culture fostered by the American invasion and occupation.

It took her three years, and it is a triumph: a highly wrought, rhetorical piece contrasting the Taliban's empty words and promises of martyrdom with the physical reality of their deeds.

Trying to supplant martyrdom with mysticism, and boiling the ideas down into the 10-minute videos he beams into Iran nightly, has been Mr. Sazegara's quest since anti-government riots erupted in Tehran last June over the widespread sentiment that the presidential election had been rigged.

It only seems that way because the journalist/critic/novelist/screenwriter drank and smoked himself to death at 45, in 1955, at a time when postwar American culture conflated art with martyrdom and manhood with excess.

They equate misery with creativity, self-inflicted pain with martyrdom, and self-indulgence with nobility.

In one of the tapes, apparently made before Wednesday night's assault, a man wearing a black wool cap said the rebels were on a "martyrdom operation with orders from the military commander of the Republic of Chechnya".

But Apollonia is self-effacing, one might say, destroying a little more of herself each time and this puts the emphasis on the astonishing nature of martyrdom – endured with superhuman fortitude, but also anticipated, faced and embraced, certainly never avoided.

The statement read to the jury said Mr. Reid had left documents before boarding the American Airlines flight showing that he had no intention to take part in a martyrdom operation with Mr. Moussaoui.