(n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
(2) Dance music supergroup Swedish House Mafia also present their own – potentially deeply hagiographic – doc following their split last year, which "depicts the EDM scene at its peak as well as telling a story of friendship and success" and follows on from an earlier doc, Take One .
(3) Admittedly, Helen Mirren did a wonderful PR job for the Queen, but often even the most hagiographic screen treatments can end up diminishing rather than dignifying their subjects.
(4) Given how frequently politicians use ghostwriters to churn out hagiographic campaign books, Feinman Todd's complaint implicitly raised a question: is it ethical to pass off the work of someone else as your own?
(5) While the hagiographic coverage of Trump is over, there is not negative coverage of the US president in the way there was of Barack Obama and his administration.
(6) Even the most hagiographic profiles called him aloof, calculating and bent on getting results.
(7) A ccording to religious tradition Saint George was martyred by the Roman emperor Diocletian on 23 April 303, although Edmund Gibbon disputed the hagiographic account of noble sacrifice and presented the historical George as an ambitious bishop from Cappadocia.
Hagiography
Definition:
(n.) Same Hagiographa.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sea of Blood is a war hagiography that gives Kim Il-sung exaggerated credit for victories over Japan in the 1930s.
(2) Perhaps inevitably, their comments gives the film an air of hagiography bordering on idolatry, or even theology – at one point Hana Ali speaks of her mother, Porche, “seeing God in his eyes”.
(3) But surely this can be accomplished without a hagiography of the infamous.
(4) Abigail Disney also spoke out against the film, calling it "a misplaced attempt at hagiography."
(5) Beloved by fans, respected by his peers and the subject of a thousand hagiographies, it’s hard even for non-Yankees fans to hate Jeter – which makes it hard to hope that the Yankees are the villains yet again.
(6) Mr Obama hasn’t even left office, but the cinematic hagiography has begun,” the New York Times commented .
(7) The danger of hagiography "was something we all knew was an issue and that I struggled with every day while I was writing it.
(8) The problem with biography in general is it tends to be hagiography or denigration, in movies even more than books,” Kendall said.
(9) There, official hagiographies claim Xi lived in a cave and – when he wasn’t herding sheep or shovelling coal or manure – pored over the teachings of Mao.
(10) "If there is a problem with it, it is that it is too much of a eulogy, a hagiography."
(11) The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw labelled Hirschbiegel's film "an excruciatingly well-intentioned, reverential and sentimental biopic about her troubled final years, laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue", while the Observer's Mark Kermode called it "a film which has neither backbone nor teeth, swerving drearily between hagiography ('I just want to help people!')
(12) Although audience reaction was strong, reviews were tepid at best, with the Guardian’s Catherine Shoard saying: “it is all but impossible for such a study to not stray into hagiography, and Guggenheim doesn’t really put up much of a fight.” Possible major nomination: Best documentary feature.
(13) These facts were conveniently omitted from his hagiography.
(14) His poetic verse is little more than a memory now because of his tragically diminished state, but on his 60th birthday we have forsaken the hagiography to let Ali speak for himself.
(15) And mentally is where you learn how to fight … it is in the street.” For him a broken link between the street and the stadium should be of urgent concern to Fifa – which was mocked last week for spending an alleged £16m on a hagiography of Blatter that premiered at the Cannes film festival – and football’s other governing bodies.
(16) But a film in the works, starring Tim Roth and Gérard Depardieu , looks likely instead to be a sanitised version of its history and a hagiography of Sepp Blatter, its controversial president.