Sentences with phrase «between hagiography»

Walking the line between hagiography and cold warrior propaganda, Soderbergh's movie depicts the titular militant as idealistic, hopeful, and caring, but also flawed and struggling.

Not exact matches

And it's just as easy to categorize the 40 - year - old Broadwell, author of a glowing hagiography of Petraeus, «All In: The Education of General David Petraeus,» as a military groupie who was too ambitious in her attempts to join Washington's national security elite and saw Petraeus as her way in, a jealous, adulterous temptress who would stop at nothing to remove any woman who would get in between her and her lover (but obviously not his wife), or a devoted mom of two young boys and wife who made a mistake by falling in love with her mentor.

There are any number of minefields into which «Goodbye Christopher Robin» might easily have wandered — it's a fall - release biopic set in England between the wars, about the creation of a beloved classic of children's literature — but the film emerges mostly unscathed as neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job on A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh.

Pimp turned successful urban fiction author Robert Beck gets a loving, burnished treatment in the new documentary «Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,» a film which awkwardly straddles the line between amiable hagiography and a more discerning sociological study of the constricted economic opportunities for African - Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.

The advanced, independent artist as a martyr of society was a standard fixture of Romantic hagiography, apotheosized in Vigny's Chatterton, and he had been immortalized on canvas by at least two obscure artists by the middle of the nineteenth century; both of these paintings serve to remind us that there is no necessary connection between advanced social or political ideas and pictorial adventurousness.