hagiography

Definitions

Examples

• Birdsall gives us a portrait of Beard that is neither a take-down nor hagiography.

• She wants a “hagiography,” and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.

• We Could Be King is, of course, part of a larger emergent genre, that of the high school football hagiography.

• Surfing on an ocean of media hagiography, Christie seemed unbeatable just when it was time for Democrats to declare themselves.

• And thank God, given the current glut of baseball hagiography on the market.

• One has to be careful not to descend into a mess of hagiography.

• But the great and absorbing subject of poetry in this age is Hagiography.

• Hagiography was now a lost branch of art, as completely lost as wood carving, and the miniatures of the old missals.

• The second version, though LB calls it miraculum insolitum, is one of the commonplaces of hagiography.

• Space would now fail us to trace the development of hagiography in the Church.

• The hagiography of the Eastern and the Greek church also has been the subject of important publications.