Original sentence: Catholic biographers sometimes depict Cranmer as an unprincipled opportunist, a Nicodemite, and a tool of royal tyranny, while neglecting to note that many other sixteenth-century clergymen and politicians fail to live up to modern standards.For their part, hagiographic Protestant biographers sometimes overlook the times that Cranmer betrayed his own principles.However, on the day of his execution, he dramatically withdrew his recantations, to die a Protestant martyr.Yet both sides can agree that Cranmer was a committed scholar whose life showed the strengths and weaknesses of a very human and often under-appreciated reformer
Edited sentence: A Catholic biographer depicts Cranmer as an unprincipled opportunist, a Nicodemite, and a tool of royal tyranny, while neglecting to note that many other sixteenth-century clergymen and politicians fail to live up to modern standards.A hagiographic Protestant biographer overlooks the times that Cranmer betrayed his own principles.However, on the day of his execution, he dramatically withdrew his recantations, to die a Protestant martyr and to Catholics, a heretic.Yet both biographers may agree that Cranmer was a committed scholar whose life showed the strengths and weaknesses of a very human and often under-appreciated reformer