Sentences with phrase «into martyrs»

In fact, even though my childish interpretation of «American Pie» was little more than the confluence of my theological naiveté with an ambitious singer - songwriter's attempt to sound deep by turning dead rock stars into martyrs, I am quite confident in calling «American Pie» a modern Psalm.

One of the perverse promises of Islamic terrorism is that it can transform ordinary people into martyrs for Allah.

Persecuting the deniers would only give them the publicity that they desire and need, maybe even make them into martyrs or folk heroes.

Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News at the time of the scandal, told the Times, «It takes people responsible for the worst embarrassment in the history of CBS News, and what was at the time a grievous blow to the credibility of a proud news organization, and turns them into martyrs and heroes.

But through the trial, Brown transformed into a martyr.

If you keep letting the silent treatment affect you by giving in to your child so they'll be «nice» and talk to you, then you're falling into the martyr trap.

If Fox was determined to turn himself into a martyr, it seemed to be working.

From the right: David Shulkin's Phony Martyrdom Newly fired Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin is trying hard to make himself into a martyr, suggests Noah Rothman at Commentary.

So does self - sacrifice mean turning yourself into a martyr in a disguised attempt to get what you want?

Even if Coin turns her into a martyr, Katniss makes it her personal mission to confront and assassinate President Snow (Donald Sutherland).

The Life and Legacy of Ana Mendieta «To turn a dead woman into a martyr is to turn her story into your own» says Rosanna Mclaughlin on what it means to coopt the life of an artist for a social cause, the fetishisation of female victimhood and the artworld's complicity in presenting the «ideal woman artist as dead or close to dying».

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So what if these «martyrs» experienced a second of pain as the LION bit into their necks?

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

The word «martyr» is also scratched into the wall.

Hmm — when I think charlatanism, I must confess, what comes to mind is this ridiculous excuse by early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) that the devil was able to perform plagiarism in reverse time order (to fool people into thinking that other similar stories before the Gospels came first).

Japanese people are portrayed as somehow spiritually different from Western man, divided sharply into demonic persecutors and angelic martyrs.

In the middle of the second century, Justin Martyr said that he would accept those who continued to observe the Torah into Christian fellowship, provided they did not seek to persuade gentile Christians that they too had to follow the Mosaic Law.

Some terrorists express this ecstatic element mythically in their expectation that the martyr will be directly translated into heaven.

His aim was not to martyr Christians but to reconvert them into paganism, and to make them Apostates.

Christians who honor the Jewish dead of the Holocaust are «making them into honorary Christian martyrs» as if forcibly converting them after death.»

Martyrs, near - martyrs, risk - takers and sufferers command our attention when they say they have seen the resurrected Lord, or led people on exodus or through exile, or been spit back into life by the great fish of illness.

And if a Gurwarda has posters of martyrs hanging up, that inflammatory activity alone should bring into question their nature of their intent, no?

We are told by Eusebius (c. 260 - c. 340), the «Father of Church History», that in the persecution in Lyons the bodies of the martyrs were deliberately burned, reduced to ashes and finally cast into the Rhone so that they would be deprived of all hope of rising again.27

Having long considered the church «mainly a reactionary power,» she finds the black church transformed into a community keeping alive the spirit of martyrs such as Martin Luther King, Jr..

Update (Sept. 29): World Watch Monitor reports on the new translation of the Bible into modern Persian and how some of its contributors were martyred.

[26] «This account gives us a rare insight into the thoughts of a Christian martyr and an even rarer insight into the experience of a woman in the early days of Christianity.»

We must become as Paul, content in all circumstances; and the martyrs, who were able to rejoice and sing even as they were led into the colosseum.

Two: Someone who considers that a woman who decides to «sacrifice» a career for the good of little ones who need her help to grow into self contained human beings is a terrific person, a stand up for what she believes in, a helper with the creation of the future world, sooooo stressed looking after baby and helping Junior with potty training, and a total martyr to the cause of saintly motherhood.

When Bhan Singh protested, the major flew into a rage, tore away his turban and ordered him to either flee the scene or join the «array of martyrs».

In 2010 he threw a firebomb into the sacred heart of evolutionary biology by challenging inclusive fitness, the decades - old theory that martyrs can win in the struggle to survive by protecting their relatives» genes.

Behavior like this is always an attempt by the narcissist to suck you back into their reality — the one in which they are always the victim or martyr and you are the aggressor or villain.

According to this idea, all people fall into various types, including the Trickster, who manipulates others through duplicity; the Martyr, who transcends service to oneself or a cause; the Fool, who helps people laugh at absurdity and hypocrisy; the Artist, who inspires others to see life symbolically; and the Gambler, who follows intuition even when others don't.

Connect with Martyred bishops of Africa who were driven out into the Sahara Desert by the Vandals» King Hunneric, an Arian.

There's religion in that revelation — a compassionate religion at that, the father / martyr's transformation into the body of a man making his sacrifice not less but greater.

Sentenced to three years in jail upon getting into a scuffle with a couple of fuzz trying to stop him from busking in the park, Otis, for starters, would be a far more resonant character if he were portrayed by a black actor (it doesn't count that the icky Matthews suffers from delusions of soul), since there's nothing to justify his martyr complex.

Oh and i jumped back into Bloodborne again and caved - in and got co-op for Martyr Logarius.

The present - day material, on the other hand, embraces the avant - garde abstractions of a Godard film, full of deliberate spatiotemporal discontinuities and fourth - wall - shattering «roleplaying,» with Eiko and Wada periodically amusing themselves by stepping into the shoes of various revolutionary heroes and other martyrs to the cause.

Meanwhile, the boys steal a statue of the school martyr, and get into a heap of trouble with the strict nun instructor whom they despise.

The film comes to concern a selfless martyr before morphing, most absurdly, into a disease - of - the - week tearjerker.

The intertwined story of the two»90s rappers — who became iconic, mural - sized martyrs after being gunned down, just six months apart, in 1996/1997 — has all the makings of a compelling drama, from their nigh - mythological upbringings, to a friendship that festered into hip - hop's internecine East Coast / West Coast war, to the way their deaths still symbolize the kind of institutional failings that could allow the murders of two young black men to go unresolved, even when they're two of the most famous artists in the world.

They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star - crossed lovers, warring brothers, martyred heroes.

Highlights include videos from Bill Viola's immersive Martyrs series, about the endurance and infliction of suffering for beliefs (Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Martyr, and Water Martyr, 2014); The Propeller Group's sculptural freeze - frames of bullets fired into ballistics gel designed to simulate the effect of wounds (Universe of Collisions series, 2015); Liza Lou's hovering, gatelike sculpture covered in millions of gold - plated beads and providing no real protection (Barricade, 2007 − 8); and a commissioned wall drawing by Tirtzah Bassel (Concourse, 2016) that examines how familiar emblems of airline travel — freedom, adventure, global connection — have become entangled with notions of vulnerability and disempowerment.

Explore the cathedral, viewing its intricate, 12th - century mosaic floor, and venture into a chapel containing the bones of more than 800 martyrs of the Turkish invasion of 1480.

The January update adds the alpha version of a new character class into Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor — Martyr.

Since its introduction, EA has gone into overdrive expanding the Dead Space universe, having created Dead Space: Extraction, Dead Space: Ignition, and Dead Space 2 in the interactive realm, while releasing Dead Space: Martyr and Dead Space: Salvage as books, and Dead Space: Aftermath and Dead Space: Downfall showing up on DVD.

At the Biennale, his room - sized installation, Martyr Construction (2015), breathed new life into tiles, statues, and a bell from a Chicago church that had been demolished.

Referencing martyred saints, current events, and contemporary and historical fashion practices, Stoller utilizes otherwise forgotten processes, such as china painting and lace draping (turning fabric into clay) in unconventional ways, both of which have varied roots, from European monarchs to ceramic hobbyists.

In Apis Mellifera, the mouths of Adkins and another man are shown in close - up view as they repetitively chant the words «soldier, shepherd, prophet, martyr» while visual references to Brown's life and mission, including fleece, ringing bells, bees, and honey, fade into and out of the three panels on the screen.

Dynamite was thrown; Police reacted by shooting into the crowd, killing four; a trial was held and four workers were hanged, who came to be considered martyrs for the labor movement.