What's the difference between hagiography and saint?

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.

Saint


Definition:

  • (n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
  • (n.) One of the blessed in heaven.
  • (n.) One canonized by the church.
  • (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
  • (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (4) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
  • (5) Ibrahimovic is available on a free, having departed Paris Saint-Germain after winning four Ligue 1 titles, and has agreed personal terms worth £220,000 a week, making him one of the highest earners in the Premier League .
  • (6) In 1992 he enrolled for an MA at Central Saint Martins.
  • (7) They will be rivalled by Paris Saint-Germain, who had hoped to sign England’s most capped left-back last summer, while the player’s representatives have not ruled out a move to a rival Premier League team.
  • (8) Sonic opens on 18 September at Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
  • (9) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
  • (10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (11) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
  • (12) This paper present a statistical study on the population of 775 psychiatric emergencies that arrived at the emergency service of Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels (Belgium), between September 1, 1986 and December 31, 1986.
  • (13) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
  • (14) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
  • (15) Case studies of two anorectic women from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, show that for some anorectics self-starvation is encoded in religious idioms and symbols about the body, food, and self.
  • (16) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
  • (17) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (18) The Saints reward for the historic win is a divisional playoff in Seattle next weekend.
  • (19) It sealed a deserved three points for the Saints, who had been the better side for most of the contest.
  • (20) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.