Sentences with phrase «play martyr»

Someone is always going to want to play the martyr and honestly it is this person who drives me crazier than the one who is actually struggling with something that can't be helped!

It's disingenuous to play the martyr.

For this reason Harper keeps the film afloat (and a notch above most evangelical Christian movies) by refusing to play the martyr or act smug and self - congratulatory.

He's just upset that he lost his crew, has no votes, and is now trying to play the martyr.

But hey, it's a lot easier to play the martyr and complain about the negative feedback you get then to face a serious challenge.

This is no time to play the martyr and try to shoulder the burden on your own.

You can play the martyr card about 1800 years ago... not so much in the modern day.

All you do is attack, make excuses, play the martyr (you probably don't know what that means) and act self - righteous.

Everything from playing the martyr or the victim, to playing the saviour and the hero.

It must have been a cruel irony to women trying to become bishops that they were rejected by people playing the martyr.

I wasn't playing the martyr.

The Danish actor and his almond - shaped eyes, aquiline nose and full lips are immediately recognizable to anyone who saw «Casino Royale,» in which he played the dastardly banker Le Chiffre; maybe less so to fans of «Clash of the Titans,» in which he donned lots of makeup and facial hair to play the martyred hero, Draco.

Not exact matches

Would you expect any school to play a Muslim religious song that celebrates the deaths of unbelievers and glorifies Muslim martyrs?

Books, movies and plays were disseminated and discussed with offense taken only by the so - called «wingnuts» of the right who, though disgusted, understood that these extravagant fantasies were simple, immature venting: in truth, the left knew that such a horrific event would martyr Bush, place Dick Cheney in the Oval Office and solidify, not weaken, Republican power.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

In Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More, lord chancellor of England under Henry VIII, attempts to reassure his wife and daughter (who are rightly concerned for his safety) by pointing to himself with the words, «This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.»

Look at the atheists playing the role of martyrs as though they have been thrown to the lions.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

The martyr idea plays out in various religions not just Christianity.

«I stopped playing the post-workout martyr and started eating in the 30 - minute refuel window, and I haven't had «dead legs» since.»

As the nasty old piece of work who runs Panem quickly intervening realizes (as played with terrific levels of sour venom by a terrifying Donald Sutherland), simply killing our heroes would the make martyrs of them, and possibly kick off a full - blown civil war he «s trying to avoid.

Never once playing Grant as a martyr or a saint, even when the script seems to be leaning in that direction, the actor relocates some of the gravity of his devastating arc on The Wire.

The doc's attempt to play out like a conspiracy thriller falls flat; Scahill's overly serious narration combined with Rowley's attempt to make him look like a martyr don't work well when seeing innocent people get slaughtered.

Sean Penn won the Best Actor Oscar for playing real - life martyr Harvey Milk.

Joan of Arc (Kino Lorber), based on the Maxwell Anderson play Joan of Lorraine, stars Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) as the French religious martyr and war heroine.

He went back and played more of Mario + Rabbids, where he's still only a couple of worlds in and got some time with the impossibly named Warhammer 40K (colon) Inquisitor (hyphen) Martyr, «which is an interesting new take on the action RPG via the 40K universe».

I'm glad that director Rodman Flender, a TV veteran picking up only his second theatrical credit since helming Leprechaun 2, shows us the real Conan instead of a martyr and a saint, as an early scene of him playing with his kids suggests we'll get.

«Mann v. Morano: Climategate's Michael Mann debates Climate Depot's Morano on Live BBC Radio: Mann: «Morano's a hired assassin» — Morano: «Mann plays the part of martyr very well»,» Climate Depot, December 3, 2012.