Not only about religious martyrdom, very much a reality in today's world, but also about bravery and sacrifice of all sorts: men and women who risk their lives for others and pay the ultimate price, men and women who risk their lives but fortunately survive, and men and women (and children) whose lives are risked and lost in the course of worthy struggles but without their own consent.
And, even then, is there a pragmatic argument to be made against giving another big prize to a pop-culture colossus at a time when so many worthy writers struggle in obscurity?
The new phase of Help to Buy to offer mortgages backed by the state to credit-worthy people struggling to move on or up the housing ladder was launched in October.
Investors are flush these days, yet many worthy startups still struggle for funding.
Vladimir and Estragon toy with him; in a struggle worthy of Sisyphus they try to get the behemoth Pozzo to his feet, which gives the production a superb opportunity for fun.
"And now," he wrote, "in the desperate spring of 1940, with the reins of power at last firm in his grasp, he resolved to lead Britain and her fading empire in one last great struggle worthy of all they had been and meant, to arm the nation, not only with weapons but also with the mace of honor, creating in every English breast a soul beneath the ribs of death".
It could become an epic struggle worthy of a book by J.R.R. Tolkien himself.
The Post called the family "debate" a struggle "worthy of the Old Testament, pitting brother against brother, son against mother".
Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers commended the album as "an attempt by an artist who's defined herself through opposition to engage with the system that she has entered, for better or worse, and to still remain recognizable to herself" characterising Mayas foregrounded ideas as "a struggle worthy of a revolutionary".
