Hagiography in a sentence

And so, an accurate reckoning of Jimmy Carter’s legacy as president is imperative at this time, as hagiography begins to replace analysis in looking at his life.

But this show isn’t exactly a hagiography.

It engaged in the usual hagiography about the liberal order that the United States built after World War II, ignoring that that order was far more open to trade than this administration is.

That is except for St Manchan “the wise” of Lemanaghan, County Offaly, whose hagiography (books written on the lives of saints) describes how his protruding eyes were cured by contact with the corpse of St Molua.

The second is to prepare an objective and rational much overdue and sorely needed biography, not slavish hagiography and secular deification, of BB’s political life warts and all.

It also drew some criticism as more of a hagiography than a documentary, with many noting Michael Jordan’s heavy involvement.

Our reviewer referred to it as an "anti-hagiography".

The challenge comes when you need to distill the hype, the hope, and heartache of the company’s 16 years into a digestible narrative that doesn’t read like hagiography or a how-to manual for the shorts.

To hear some of the hagiography of Hodgson, he was a lone adventurer in alien lands during his early career instead of being one of many Englishmen abroad.

Is the show a hagiography or a homage?

According to Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Hubbard's hagiography directly compares him with Buddha.

Ferreri's hagiography of 1521 mentions many miracles of Casimir are known but describes only one – a Lithuanian victory against the Russians.

Gregory’s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

Gregory's hagiography was an essential component of this.

Henry's source for the story is unknown, though it may have been a lost hagiography of Helena.

In the 1540s, Metropolitan Macarius codified Russian hagiography and convened a number of church synods, which culminated in the Hundred Chapter Council of 1551.

The arrival of Christianity around the year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European mediaeval learning, hagiography and history writing.

The arrival of Christianity around the year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European medieval learning, hagiography and history writing.

The Baal Shem, in particular, was subject to excess hagiography.

The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography : many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.