(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.
Paean
Definition:
(n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
(n.) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
(n.) See Paeon.
Example Sentences:
(1) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(2) That seemed not to worry Unite's Len McCluskey, his erstwhile blustery critic, who sent out paeans of reckless praise: "This is a tour de force … the best speech from a Labour leader I have heard."
(3) The paeans served Blatter well and he was carried back into office, 139 votes to Hayatou's 56.
(4) A Brazilian World Cup that started amid fears over protests and corruption but became a paean to the best of international football concluded with a tense final and a dramatic denouement.
(5) Joseph O'Neill had already caused a stir with his first novel, Netherland; Niall Williams' overlooked paean to the joys of reading in the rain will now draw more attention.
(6) Children from the Robin Hood primary school in Birmingham sang in Mandarin at the event, and a student from Lancaster University Confucius Institute, Cameron Patterson, recited Xi’s paean to Jiao Yulu, a celebrated party leader in Henan province who died in 1964.
(7) The doyenne of good living this week wrote a paean to UAVs for Time magazine titled “ Why I love my drone ”.
(8) This much-publicised paean, written with input from people across the Netherlands, has been savaged in the press and social media for heartfelt lines such as: "I will build a dyke with my bare hands and keep you safe from the water."
(9) There are at least four problems with Chris Huhne’s paean to growth ( Comment , 25 August).
(10) Migrant worker delegate Ju Xiaolin shed tears while reading an original poem called Getting New Hope , a paean to president Hu Jintao's 64-page Thursday morning political report.
(11) The two albums that followed, I See A Darkness and Ease Down The Road, are his best, and most consistent, collections - the former dark and wintry; the latter, in contrast, is a veritable paean to the carnal joys of infidelity.
(12) None of this daunted Diodotus, whose counter-argument began with a paean to the power of debate: “The good citizen,” he insisted, “ought to triumph not by frightening his opponents, but by beating them fairly in argument.” And beat Cleon he did, in a series of detailed appeals to his audience, setting out his belief in how Athens’ long-term interests would best be served.
(13) The stuff that reinforced that image – I'm Waiting for the Man, Street Hassle, Dirt, Kicks, Sad Song – was matched by songs of real tenderness, not in the grudging tears-of-a-tough-guy style, but open and honest and touchingly fragile (see Femme Fatale's ruined suitor warning others off to Coney Island Baby , his lovestruck paean to Rachel, the beautiful drag queen who was his mid-70s companion ).
(14) Near Amir’s bed, they found a book titled Baruch the Man , a paean to Baruch Goldstein who had massacred 29 Palestinians as they worshipped in a mosque in Hebron.
(15) There was Petit Pays, Cesária Évora's beautiful paean to her native Cape Verde, and Chopin's Waltz in A Minor played by the Turkish pianist Idil Biret.
(16) Against the backdrop of a looming presidential poll pitting the Muslim Brotherhood against Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's final prime minister and the man many Egyptians believe has been promoted by the military junta and the now-disbanded NDP party to crush the revolution, Refaat began his verdict with a florid paean of praise to those who died for freedom.
(17) It was a paean of praise to a traditional Communist hero called Jiao Yulu, a party leader from Henan province celebrated on a million propaganda posters for putting the needs of the ordinary working people before his own.
(18) I'd always be up for a revival of West Side Story, James Lapine and William Finn's Falsettos and Jason Robert Brown's brilliant Parade , but the show I long to see again is Stephen Sondheim's 1971 Follies, that aching paean to tarnished dreams and lost innocence set during the reunion of a bunch of Ziegfeld-style hoofers on the eve of the destruction of the theatre where they performed 30 years previously.
(19) To applause from an audience of Israeli political and other leaders, the US president delivered an uncritical paean of praise to Israel.
(20) It sounds like he’s been reading the Economist!” a journalist from that magazine said of Xi’s unlikely paean to liberal economics.