sacrificers

In other words, what the sacrificers did was to take what was most dear to them and, in losing it, enact a relationship, a bloody, fearsome enacting of how they fit into the world—perhaps, one might even say, of their being no more than themselves, looking outward and upward in the desperate dignity of their smallness.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

The sacrificers are subsidizing those unwilling to make the sacrifice (staying at home to raise your children).

Public Goods, Private Goods, and Paternalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

In other words, what the sacrificers did was to take what was most dear to them and, in losing it, enact a relationship, a bloody, fearsome enacting of how they fit into the world—perhaps, one might even say, of their being no more than themselves, looking outward and upward in the desperate dignity of their smallness.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

In other words, what the sacrificers did was to take what was most dear to them and, in losing it, enact a relationship, a bloody, fearsome enacting of how they fit into the world—perhaps, one might even say, of their being no more than themselves, looking outward and upward in the desperate dignity of their smallness.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

In other words, what the sacrificers did was to take what was most dear to them and, in losing it, enact a relationship, a bloody, fearsome enacting of how they fit into the world—perhaps, one might even say, of their being no more than themselves, looking outward and upward in the desperate dignity of their smallness.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Of course when extreme tortucans get in charge, you run the risk of those societies spinning out of control, as the mid-range tortucans are all too able to follow the pull of the motivated leadership right off the cliff from Quetzalcoatl human sacrificers to Nazi death camp engineers.

An Ill Wind in Tortuca - The Panda's Thumb 2010

The right's endless campaign against the straw man of unions has chiseled in a national perception of teachers as, at best, well-meaning but foolish self-sacrificers and at worst, lazy idiots.

Dan Brown: Arne Duncan Lays Out His Vision for Public Education: What Do You Think? 2009

The self-sacrificers averaged £373 a year in forgone expenses, which translates to about $613.

Surprising survey says British are un-padding their expenses 2009

Take, for example, the Druids of ancient Britain, some of ancient Rome's most vividly imagined foes, savant savages, human sacrificers, wild men surrounded by naked women who lived and worked beneath bloodstained trees.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

The self-sacrificers averaged £373 a year in forgone expenses, which translates to about $613.

Surprising survey says British are un-padding their expenses 2009