Sentences with phrase «by hagiography»

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This sprawling, two - hour hagiography narrated by John Forsythe covers everything from Palmer's boyhood growing up by the 6th hole of the Latrobe Country Club to his five - day courtship of his wife, Winnie, to his amicable rivalry with Jack Nicklaus.

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.

Attenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography, in which the hero is rhetorically elevated to sainthood by systematically stripping him of all his psychology and inner life.

«Creation,» based on the book written by Darwin's great - great - grandson and entitled Annie's Box, is a secular hagiography of Darwin, which is not surprising, given that modern films have a proclivity towards themes that fly in the face of biblical teachings.

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

by Walter Chaw Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't, Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most effective hagiographies in film history not for the way that it elevates its subject to sainthood, but for the way that it allows its subject to be one of history's most notorious, relentless miscreants.

Some people have tried to reclaim this hagiography, claiming that the film provokes debate by showing the hero as an absent father and husband.

is a toothless hagiography of the Duke enacted by a collection of stuntmen, interesting mainly because these guys are legends in their own right and out to pasture collectively, I'm afraid.

It would have been very easy for DuVernay to let Selma slip into becoming an unsubtle hagiography but by and large she's managed to show King as a principled but flawed man, not least when it comes to the matter of his frequent extra-marital liaisons and the effect that had on his relationship with his wife, Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo).

Neil Jordan's controversial hagiography to the Big Fella (played by Liam Neeson) in which De Valera is as much a villain as the Black and Tans - was shot in the capital, with Dublin Castle, the Pepper Canister Church and City Hall figuring prominently.

Costume designer Milena Canonero (The Shining) is absent for her own hagiography, by the end of which dyed - in - the - wool counterculturalist Bud Cort has admitted that he found his «polyester shroud» of a wardrobe suspect until he realized that Anderson wasn't trying to pigeonhole Cort's bond - company stooge.

But «Candelabra» isn't a hagiography either, it's a nuanced and surprisingly touching look at late - life Liberace, his moments of monstrousness (having Thorson undergo plastic surgery to look more like a younger version of himself is possibly the oogiest) balanced by moments of great tenderness and love, the rawer and realer for coming from beneath layers of lurex and sequins.

* / **** Image A Sound A Extras C starring Curtis «50 Cent» Jackson, Terrence Howard, Joy Bryant, Bill Duke screenplay by Terence Winter directed by Jim Sheridan by Walter Chaw Another in the recent cycle of slick biopics overseen in whole or part by either the subjects themselves or relatives of the same, Jim Sheridan's Get Rich or Die Tryin», the peculiarly flaccid hagiography of two - bit rapper 50 Cent, is an overlong, overly - familiar, wholly sentimental look at a nobody who became a somebody primarily known for getting shot a few times.

The legend thus combines features characteristic of traditional folk - literature with others derived ultimately from the Bible and the panegyric oratory of the later Roman Empire, as mediated by the pattern works of Christian hagiography, Athanasius» Life of Antony (before 373) and Sulpicius Severus» Life of Martin.

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.

It is a lesson in an aspect of AbEx that often gets lost in its hagiography: with all the influence of early modernism, the AbEx painters succeeded by grasping the universal notion that painting is an improvisational art that can not be exhausted as long as there are artists willing to risk thinking for themselves.

Writing a hagiography - by - omission is below what I've come to expect from statnews.