The use and ceremonial procession of the relics paralleled the miraculous healings described in hagiographical sources. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
Formerly all the hagiographical collections devoted a long commentary to him. From Wordnik.com. [01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003] Reference
It is an authorized biography, but thankfully free of the hagiographical pieties of the genre. From Wordnik.com. [Freud's Cordelia] Reference
There is a fascinating, if non-hagiographical, essay on St. Gerald here. posted by John at 11: 31 PM. From Wordnik.com. [10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002] Reference
Alone among the news networks, Fox did not retail wholly hagiographical material about candidate Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Post-American Presidency] Reference
For whatever reason, the Obama administration has acted as if those hagiographical comparisons to FDR were apt. From Wordnik.com. [Caffeine Quotes] Reference
It was only in this incidental capacity that they became a target audience for the hagiographical literature of Hasidism. From Wordnik.com. [Hasidism.] Reference
The news that the novelist Norman Mailer died earlier today at the age of 84 has already elicited little hagiographical murmurs. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Kimball: Norman Mailer, a Dissenting View] Reference
But before the scheduled broadcast date, a clamor grew among right-wing circles that the film was not sufficiently hagiographical. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » 9/11 Commissioner Lehman On Path to 9/11: ‘If You Don’t Like The Hits On the Clinton Administration, Welcome to the Club’] Reference
A most distinctive class of ancient Irish literature, and probably the class that is least popularly familiar, is the hagiographical. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore] Reference
When he got his first glimpse of Ragnar on the video, he said, "Please don't tell me that he is the object of this hagiographical exercise.". From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Whales Is Missing] Reference
Document and Eyewitness's treatment of its main players is affectionate-going-on-hagiographical, but the implication of that end-point is inescapable. From Wordnik.com. [Document and Eyewitness by Neil Taylor and Shadowplayers by James Nice] Reference
National Archives -- but there is a foundation there that runs the museum and whose purpose is hagiographical, to preserve the sainted memory of the great man. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan] Reference
Bit late to respond but not to make be too hagiographical? regarding Pelevin, but probably the very nature of his uniqueness means he can be a little hiut and miss. From Wordnik.com. [Today's Inquirer reviews ...] Reference
Gerson, whose biography of neoconservative thought is largely hagiographical, writes, There is not one political position that can be considered distinctly neoconservative. From Wordnik.com. [Sands of Empire] Reference
Friar Minor, poet, and hagiographical writer, born at Celano in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
His hagiographical writings are found in July, IV-VI, and August, I-III. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The Old and New Testaments are very different, so also are the canonical and hagiographical writings. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
The director is the radical German feminist Margarethe von Trotta, responsible for the hagiographical 1986. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Cusack] Reference
His hagiographical writings must naturally be read in keeping with the spirit and tastes of his own times. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The figure of this Bishop of Ravenna has a singular importance in the hagiographical legends of the northeast of Italy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
If the right's current top policy boy isn't treated in a totally hagiographical manner, with no dissent, they will complain. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Francorum ", also hagiographical MSS. not all of which have been critically examined, and a very old copy of the" Imitation of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Given its hagiographical presentation of a surpassingly gentle and wise Muhammad and a combative Aisha, why should Muslims object?. From Wordnik.com. [Middle East Forum :: Writings] Reference
It need hardly be said that hagiographical documents, dealing for example with the lives of St. Dunstan, St. Edward the Confessor. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
This work is a great hagiographical collection begun during the first years of the seventeenth century, and continued to our own day. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
We must content ourselves here with a rapid glance; a complete bibliography of hagiographical materials would require several volumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
In volumes subsequent to the sixth there have been inserted, besides unedited documents, various notes bearing on hagiographical matters. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Other hagiographical compilations dating from the Middle Ages are worthy of mention, although they have not all enjoyed the same popularity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Something should also be said as to the progress of hagiographical criticism as applied to martyrologies; but the subject is worthy of a special article. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Example: CBS brought a new level of civility to American political discourse by cancelling a mini-series on Reagan that wingers deemed insufficiently hagiographical. From Wordnik.com. [Corrente] Reference
The "Liber vitae Patrum", the most important and interesting of Gregory's hagiographical works, gives us much curious information concerning the upper classes of the period. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
+ liturgical rites and customs mentioned in hagiographical documents. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
It’s from Gunther’s bio of him, which is a touch hagiographical, but good all the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Con Law Exam Kills Law Student] Reference
The hagiographical era has obviously passed by. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
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