How To Use Hagiography In A Sentence
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The authors employ this term as they trace the active presence of spirituality within imagery and seek to understand the devotee's communion with the saint through a process of hagiography.
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She fit a type easily recognized in the annals of hagiography, and it was on that basis that claims for sainthood were made.
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In spite of its unreliability as a factual source for specific information about individual saints, however, hagiography supplies us with a rich source of information about medieval social and philosophical attitudes.
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Perhaps that is going a bit far; indeed, this book sometimes teeters on the brink of hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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A virtual hagiography has emerged around missionary translations, describing the trying conditions under which these early translators toiled.
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Green did not set out to write hagiography, but I think this is hagiography at its best.
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And so this book does lapse into something of a hagiography.
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It has been said that exorcism lay at the heart of the early Christian communities, and it featured prominently in medieval hagiography as the occasion for victories over devils by saints, either personally or at their shrines.
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To her credit, she has not produced a hagiography.
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What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, at times I wasn't sure if I was reading a biography or a hagiography.
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He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint.
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Since subjectivity is admitted from the outset, the documentary is clearly very far from being a possible hagiography.
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There have been six books, one feature film, a documentary, and endless hagiography in the quarterly phreaker bible Ed Piskor.
Wired Top Stories
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It was also pure hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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While hardly subjects of ‘idealizing or idolizing biography,’ as hagiography is defined, those two have had unusually high profiles as risk-takers and rule-breakers.
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As the two parts of the title imply, it contrasts the recent Axelrodian hagiography of Obama as the biracial transcender with the man's own evasively written but ultimately quite clear autobiography.
Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog
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This is hagiography, not biography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scientifically, his respectful hagiography of the doyens of modern astro-physics - Einstein, Roemer, Planck - kept alive the questions of the universe they had formulated, and maintained a space for answers.
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It looks and sounds very similar to the Stalin hagiography you posted not very long ago … animalauthor
The Terminator « Awful Library Books
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Journalists who should know better than to write hagiography didn't.
Times, Sunday Times
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But a disturbing quality I find in UU hagiography is that it often revises the portraits of our saints to more closely resemble who we would have liked them to be than who they actually were.
"Famous UU" revisionism
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But despite the book's subtitle, "Toward a Gay Hagiography," any such hagiography is simply invisible in the book.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality'
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According to medieval hagiography, Patrick's powers also encompassed raising the dead, conjuring snow on a summer's day and, of course, ridding Ireland of snakes.
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But like many other writers today finding fresh meaning in the lives and deaths of long-ago Christians, McBrien reviews traditional hagiography in order to draw contemporary lessons.
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But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography.
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He is a modern-day hero in a place that does hagiography better than any other.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint.
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I don't know what his hagiography is like, but his writing on music is notoriously untrustworthy.
02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003
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Consequently, ‘structures of identity’ are revealed that hover between ‘autobiography, hagiography, sanctity and art.’
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Perhaps that is going a bit far; indeed, this book sometimes teeters on the brink of hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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To do so means navigating between the Scylla of hagiography and the Charybdis of what Joyce Carol Oates called pathography.
'Friendlyvision'
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Though she has an empathy with her subjects, she tries not to idolise them, ensuring that none of the biographies reads like a hagiography.
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In fact, don't write a hagiography of him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elie is clearly sympathetic to and admires each of his subjects, but this is not a hagiography of anyone.
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To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point.
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There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.
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But I don't think either of them would have wanted me to do a hagiography.
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Closely connected with Greek hagiography is Slavonic hagiography.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Might be interesting to compare Latin hagiography (say, the Life of Cuthbert) with English hagiography (Aelfric's Life of Oswald), but I worry that doing so would be more appropriate for a Medieval Literature class than for a true survey.
How much medieval is too much?
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Why such fear of modern critical biblical studies and new understandings of hagiography and ecclesiastical history?
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Because of the delicate nature of contemporary analysis, there is a penchant to lean in either of two ways: hagiography or unfettered antagonism.
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That said, this is a work of pure hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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That said, this is a work of pure hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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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. —
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There is biography, hagiography and social, religious and political history.
Times, Sunday Times
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In America, hagiography (the making of saints) is an art form.
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This is based on references in Irish hagiography to belts having been preserved as relics of the saints who wore them.
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From 1943 to his death in 1989, King Louis Narcisse fused Baptist, Pentecostal, and gris-gris traditions into a gumbo of ritual and hagiography.
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Often, such literature is not hagiography, but presents life that falls short of human virtues.
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This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
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There is biography, hagiography and social, religious and political history.
Times, Sunday Times
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The authors of the work advise against hagiography, pointing out that ‘people don't become saints just because they die.’
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Most hagiography was intended to lead the forces of the sacred into well-defined channels connected with political power, be it episcopal, royal, or both.
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The flip side of the hagiography is the backlash Jacklash?
The World Mourns, Apparently
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Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power.
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It was also pure hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trying to theologize that into a bit of hagiography is about as revolting as a certain senator's endless exploitation of his war record.
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This book is no hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harris suggests this owed much to models from Roman Catholic hagiography and puritan exemplary lives.
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In fact, don't write a hagiography of him.
Times, Sunday Times
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What drove him remains a mystery in a book that is more hagiography than biography.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is hagiography, not biography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saint Martin's hagiography portrays him as a powerful exorcist who fought personally with Satan throughout his life.
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Closer to such history in terms of the narrative skill required is hagiography.
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Journalists who should know better than to write hagiography didn't.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power.
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This book is no hagiography.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Renaissance art historiography is an adaptation of hagiography, wherein a new literary genre finds its themes in an ancient form, then might there not be a place for a Judas figure?
