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In the three films, his stout frame, bushy whiskers and weathered visage helped him embody men of authority who faced danger with reluctance, then acceptance and, finally, self-sacrificial stoicism.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

When he joins her in a haze of self-sacrificial glory, his epiphany feels completely unearned.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022

His character’s self-sacrificial willingness to grit his teeth through the kookiest high jinks that suburbia has to offer makes his stodgy values at least those of a consistently decent guy.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2018

His memoir of his wife Iris Murdoch descending into the darkness of Alzheimer’s, “Elegy for Iris” is not “pitiless,” as Atlas asserts, but self-sacrificial and sympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2017

But then he too is to make this detachment and separation only a fresh means to unite him to his great High Priest for a self-sacrificial life in Him.

From Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)