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Перевод: martyr
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Тезаурус:
- During Ramadan we ask God to let us be a martyr if we are to die.
- And for plenty of people, now as then, Emily Davison was not a martyr but an obsessive fanatic whose activities brought no credit to her cause and whose action on Derby Day 1913 was that of a hooligan, not a heroine.
- Whether she intended it or not, Emily's deed during the 1913 Derby at Epsom afforded her the status of martyr, and her grave was to become a shrine.
- What else, after all, was Christ in his death but the keenest image of abjection and arrogance, the epitome of that transgressive masochism which has played such an important part in making and unmaking our culture, not least in the figure of the martyr, and which figures over and again in the cultural depictions of the crucifix?
- As the martyr is, literally, detached from the place of his martyrdom and made present wherever his relics have become the centre of a cult, so relics begin to be seen in a new way.
- Born in Chongqing in 1946, the daughter of a revolutionary martyr, she was adopted by the family of Ye Jianying, one of the famous 10 marshals of the People's Liberation Army.
- In North Africa a Christian militancy developed, and the supreme ambition was to be granted a martyr's crown.
- Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, by a young Jew, the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and, in his terms, relatively "moderate", speech at the funeral, attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political "martyr" of the Right since the Revolution of 1918.
- The visitor of the last stanza comes "more violent, more profound, / One soul, disdainful or disdained," and in the condition of the year-spirit or , "his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year", to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and, for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot's other early poems, martyr "Self-immolating on the Mound".
- MORE THAN a thousand years after St Edward the Martyr, King of England from AD 975 to AD 978, was murdered at Corfe Castle, Dorset, the Mayor of Shaftesbury is attempting to circumvent a legal log-jam and re-inter some of the Saxon monarch's remains in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey this year.
- According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle "miracles soon followed" and his relics were taken to Shaftesbury Abbey by Dunstan in 980 and he was declared a martyr in 1001.
- Martyr king's bones of contention
- The martyr's conflict was seen not as a fight against duly constituted authority in government, but against Satan.
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