Sentences with phrase «from hagiography»

Yet one of the things I appreciate most about your book is that, far from a hagiography, it is a very critical biography.

Dorfman's record of Resnick's life is far from hagiography — after all, Dorfman knew Resnick well, and incorporates his failures as well as his triumphs.»

But we don't need precedents or precepts from hagiography, since the Lord himself instructs us when we pray to say Abba, Father.

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I knew that the church history I often heard from evangelical pulpits was really a sanitized hagiography designed to comfort the brethren.

Reflection shows that the evidence for old - time sanctity comes from suspect sources such as hagiography, panegyrics and sermons.

I'm looking for a wide range of experiences — there are so many different sorrows — and a wide range of genres, from personal memoir to hagiography, poetry, practical guidance, theological reflection, Scriptural reflection, and gallows humor.

Teaching Catholic non-fiction does not mean teaching theology (or hagiography) but that does not mean that great Catholic theologians and priests need be excluded from the curriculum either: there could well be room for extracts from St. Augustine's Confessions or Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's The Road of Hope when looking at autobiographical writing, for instance.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

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.

This is not hagiography, however; they don't back off from examining some of his more controversial endeavors and characteristics.

When the long end credit sequence features family snaps of the real men who died, soundtracked to Peter Gabriel's version of «Heroes», it's clear that at some point Berg switched from filmmaking to hagiography, and that he's much better at making movies than he is at making saints.

, which intersperses clips from an archival interview with Kazan with interview nuggets from Steinbeck's son and a Steinbeck scholar, each of whom is actively engaged in shallow hagiography of the man without deviating much from the standard read of Kazan's adaptation.

That the film skirted hagiography owes much to a notably expansive script from playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) and an unsentimental clutch of performances from Sally Field, a feisty Tommy Lee Jones, and a deeply human Daniel Day - Lewis, an actor who at this point all but has the word Oscar scrawled in invisible ink across his forehead.

Yet, only at the end, in scenes from Shandling's memorial, do you get even a whiff of hagiography.

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.

Although far from perfect, the first season of National Geographic's Genius avoided some of the worst cliches of hagiography thanks to Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn's eccentric interpretations of Albert Einstein — and particularly Samantha Colley's fully inhabited performance as Mileva Maric, who was able to come across as exceptional in her own right and not just a flimsy female enabler of male brilliance.

Though Tonya's fall - from - grace story is relatively conventional, its telling is foxier and more slippery than either the quickie TV - movie treatment Harding received back in the»90s or the hagiography she might have received had her story ended in Olympic triumph rather than violence and a lifetime ban from figure skating.

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 emphasis this film places on the seemingly mundane ritual of cleaning shoes transforms the artist's own footwear into another contemporary object of worship deserving of meticulous attention and care, the modern equivalent to the traditional artistic «attribute» (an object conventionally associated with a particular figure from classical mythology or Christian hagiography): the social signifier.

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