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But Araminty’s passing of the torch has none of the martyrly self-sacrifice of, say, Lana Turner’s ceding her lover to her spoiled, oblivious daughter in Imitation of Life.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2014

It is their martyrly lot to be ribbed occasionally by their irreverent fellows.

From Time Magazine Archive