martyrization


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mar·tyr·ize

 (mär′tə-rīz′)
tr.v. mar·tyr·ized, mar·tyr·iz·ing, mar·tyr·iz·es
To martyr.
mar′tyr·i·za′tion (-tər-ĭ-zā′shən) n.
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Given that the Muhammad al-Dura hoax--the staged death scene and subsequent martyrization of the 12-year-old Gazan allegedly killed in cold blood by Israeli soldiers on the second day of the "Aqsa intifada" (28)--was produced by Charles Enderlin, long-time Jerusalem correspondent of the state-owned France 2 television channel, the French authorities understandably live in dread of a real Dura on their own soil, not least since the youths readily fabricate their own child martyrs and go on the rampage in revenge.
A French intifada
2) An advertising spiel glorifying the digitized sanguinity of a Biblical horror movie about mayhem and martyrization (Register-Guard, Feb.
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After the symbolic martyrization of the beekeeper, the images tend to blur into generic Avedons, of either of two, kinds: models shown leaping in a way, that is now a kind of cliche but which could only rarely have been a convincing idealization of what it, would mean to wear the garment modeled; and heads, commonly of famous men though sometimes of women.
Richard Avedon
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