According to Phipps, students of Aurobindo and the Mother have a tendency to take this kind of hagiographic inflation to extreme heights. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have already accomplished the metaphysical victory] Reference
It almost always included a hagiographic film about Kim Il Sung. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, October 31, 2006] Reference
Amiralay is best known for his hagiographic film on Rafiq Hariri. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, September 30, 2006] Reference
The fairly recent hagiographic story had to be given visual shape. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
Unadulterated flattery in the now infamous hagiographic tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Banerji kow-tows before the same system that he is complaining about] Reference
This week long hagiographic festival was a white, middle class affair. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
Maclean's published something less than hagiographic about Prince Har?. From Wordnik.com. [No. Fucking. Shit.] Reference
A recent hagiographic Guardian interview described Mark E Smith as "God-like". From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
In a media blitz that continues the hagiographic coverage of the career of Paul G. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
These hagiographic works consolidated Darwin's historical image for the next century. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin and His Doppelgänger] Reference
Since his untimely death, a hagiographic aura has enveloped D. Boon and the Minutemen. From Wordnik.com. [David Rees: What Would D. Boon Do?] Reference
For a website with an unmistakable hagiographic character, see Darwin Day Celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Evolving Darwin Day] Reference
People who follow contemporary Arab politics should read that albeit hagiographic book. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, November 30, 2006] Reference
Also, did Blanford get a free copy of Blanford's hagiographic biography of Rafiq Hariri?. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, May 29, 2008] Reference
You may still find a copy of his hagiographic biography of Saddam in your local library. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, April 19, 2008] Reference
It's a thoughtful, lengthy, slightly intemperate piece of writing, and by no means hagiographic. From Wordnik.com. [David Granger: Why After 75 Years, Esquire Endorsed a Presidential Candidate] Reference
In 2008, she co-wrote an understandably hagiographic book, Hopalong Cassidy – An American Legend. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Bradley obituary] Reference
To be fair, lawyers aren't the only maligned professionals that come in for hagiographic treatment in After. From Wordnik.com. [Brill's Multi-Pronged Narrative Posits 9/11 Improved Our World] Reference
And the new Aljazeera "star" Riz Khan is the author of the pathetically hagiographic book on Prince Al-Walid. From Wordnik.com. [Thursday, November 30, 2006] Reference
However, Packwood said, it is no bad thing that the documents paint a less than hagiographic portrait of Churchill. From Wordnik.com. [Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech] Reference
Damascius also gave a rather hagiographic description of Aedesia and Hermeias 'eldest child, who died at age seven. From Wordnik.com. [The Garbage House] Reference
You see, what Amiralay is not showing in his tour is the most pathetically hagiographic documentary he made about. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday, May 31, 2006] Reference
I recall adoring magazine cover after magazine cover at the supermarket checkout line with hagiographic photos of Obama. From Wordnik.com. ["I love movies like that..."] Reference
You can easily read it as the diametric opposite of Jeff Jarvis's somewhat hagiographic What Would Google Do?, for example. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: The Death of Why] Reference
They serve as audiences for hagiographic events, like the nuns listening to John the Evangelist preach in the Zurich gradual. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
The restored Grange should be more than a hagiographic "house beautiful" monument to a marble-bust version of a founding father. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Hamilton's Capital Compromise] Reference
I haven't read his article on Edwards in The American Prospect though, so perhaps it is not as hagiographic as I expect it to be. From Wordnik.com. [Why aren't we paying much attention to the most qualified Democratic candidate in the race?] Reference
We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
Hopefully, the coverage of the Pope's funeral will at least reduce the extent of the hagiographic coverage of Hariri on Arab TV stations. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, April 30, 2005] Reference
If you hit the Bush-Cheney President for Life page, you'll see a large, hagiographic dedication to Ronald Reagan, with his best speeches. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
Mobutu fell, and von Kloberg wrote a hagiographic eulogy for the papers, "The Mobutu I Billed" — sorry, my mistake, "The Mobutu I Knew.". From Wordnik.com. [The Pariah Guy] Reference
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