Closely connected with Greek hagiography is Slavonic hagiography. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
I don't know what his hagiography is like, but his writing on music is notoriously untrustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003] Reference
It looks and sounds very similar to the Stalin hagiography you posted not very long ago … animalauthor. From Wordnik.com. [The Terminator « Awful Library Books] Reference
I am not saying he was a bad man, I am just not drinking your Kool-Aid, and I think this newspaper indulged in hagiography. —. From Wordnik.com. [A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
They understood the affection for Princess Diana, but they were puzzled by the kind of hagiography that was happening. From Wordnik.com. [The great royal fightback] Reference
In this wholly un-catholic context, "hagiography" is a pejorative term, an accusation that the biographer writes with uncritical reverence. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints] Reference
So, whose he going for with the hagiography on St. Ronnie?. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Hits Obama For Reagan Comment] Reference
(It was probably the outhouse that began the hagiography.). From Wordnik.com. [Behind Enemy Lines] Reference
I was also deeply offended by Obama's hagiography to Reagan. From Wordnik.com. [New National Obama Ad: "Inspiring"] Reference
Can we at least postpone the hagiography until after his loss?. From Wordnik.com. [Obama And Bill Duke It Out Over Obama's 2004 War Quote] Reference
Despite those slips into hagiography, Ms. Powell is no sycophant. From Wordnik.com. [The Ugly Truth About Cooking Served Up in a Rambling Memoir] Reference
It is an exhilarating, delirious hagiography of some of its masters. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Remington: Red Cliff: The Movie John Woo Was Born to Make] Reference
Among the Taliban, the hagiography of Zarqawi is already in full swing. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Zarqawi's Legacy] Reference
Now, I'm not trying to add anything to his hagiography, but let's be sure. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Legacy Celebrated In Dance] Reference
All that Reagan hagiography will now come in handy as we pivot to the general. From Wordnik.com. [In Victory Speech, Obama Trains Fire On McCain] Reference
Coming on the same day the paper endorsed Obama, this bit of hagiography contains a. From Wordnik.com. [William Klein: The Washington Post Picks Obama's Cabinet (Even if They Don't Know It)] Reference
Its script proceeds breathlessly from cliche to cliche, and it fails even as good hagiography. From Wordnik.com. [Review: Philip Kennicott on documentary about I.M. Pei, 'Learning From Light'] Reference
A little background: contrary to right wing hagiography, our founding fathers were not gods or perfect men. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Lux: 19th Century Conservatives] Reference
It is exactly what a good biography should be fair and illuminating without ever descending to hagiography. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Ambassador] Reference
I may be bordering on hagiography, but the sips I've enjoyed by my favorite baristas there were outstanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for the Perfect Ristretto: Caffe Luxxe] Reference
Of course it is difficult to speak of a phenomenon of world conscience like Mandela in terms other than hagiography. From Wordnik.com. [Nadine Gordimer's key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award] Reference
It's as if it's the late 1990s and Information Age hagiography was still (falsely) explaining a supposed economic boom. From Wordnik.com. [David Sirota: The Threat of Tone Deafness] Reference
We failed because we quit talking about the macabre part of his life and we let that drop and made this into hagiography. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010] Reference
It\'s as if it\'s the late 1990s and Information Age hagiography was still (falsely) explaining a supposed economic boom. From Wordnik.com. [David Sirota: The Threat of Tone Deafness] Reference
Those who think that it would be a hagiography of Blair should bear in mind his criticisms of Blair over Northern Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Her life story, now the stuff of hagiography, strikes about every emotionally correct nerve in the contemporary art world. From Wordnik.com. [Frida On Our Minds] Reference
In terms of the last week, I was struck with how much reaction built on the liberal side against the hagiography as the week went on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2004] Reference
It's also a story of power politics and media manipulation that's very un-McCain-like -- if you believe his national media hagiography. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Wins Rhode Island, Networks Project] Reference
The book doesn't exactly read like a hagiography, but Barra clearly doesn't have much bad to say about the man -- nor does anyone else. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Remington: Allen Barra on Yogi Berra: One of My Favorite Sports Biographies Ever] Reference
The book stands, therefore, as an essential reference; and although it stops well short of hagiography, the Princess would have approved. From Wordnik.com. [A starring role for the Tsar] Reference
But there's another political lesson in Reagan's first-term story, one that is generally lost in the hagiography that surrounds his legacy. From Wordnik.com. [Stimulus Politics Is Fleeting, the 2008 Realignment Isn't] Reference
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