Sentences with phrase «hagiographies of»

The hagiographies of science are full of paeans to the self - correcting, self - healing nature of the enterprise.

The Republican National Committee is threatening to boycott those two networks over the production of presumed hagiographies of Hillary Clinton.

Journalists who fail to pen fawning hagiographies of David Sønstebø and his team are singled out for...

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.

«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.

It's completely pointless, in other words, a hagiography of a hagiography — and that's a lot of blowjobbing.

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.

, 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.

There is no contesting that it's a self - congratulatory hagiography of Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and that Clooney and his co-screenwriter, Grant Heslov, are highly selective in how they portray Murrow's fight to broadcast a damning assessment of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his overweening anti-Communist crusade on the timorous CBS network.

* / **** 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.

Equal parts ecstatic archival sports video and hagiography of the pioneers of the deep water (a new meaning for «swells»), its strengths are the same as those for Dogtown: a great soundtrack, and a sense of kinetic energy that manages to confer, at least in fits and starts, the breathlessness of the subject to an enraptured audience.

is something of a hagiography of Saul Bass that could have spent more time detailing the theories behind splitting the personalities of each of the races into their own distinct beasts, but is fine for what it is.

The Current War initially seems like it'll be something of a hagiography of Edison.

initially seems like it'll be something of a hagiography of Edison.

I followed a link to a site that painted the ultimate hagiography of a young priest marrying a Christian couple against the wishes of the Emperor Claudius II.

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As the article points out, the deeper into Christian hagiography you go, the less evidence of massive persecutions you find.

There had always been female models — Sarah, Naomi, Judith, Rahab, Mary, Felicity, Perpetua — but as Christian hagiography matured, more and more women became the subjects of lives and their exploits took on new visibility and significance for Christian piety.

For the insider elaboration is inadequate and superfluous; for outsiders, it smacks of hagiography and bragging that does not fit the humble, down to earth qualities of the individual being praised.

After several such stories, it became clear that the Ekklesia Project is in part about hagiography in the best sense — telling the stories of the saints so future saints might be encouraged.

The Qur» anic account of Moses and his mysterious companion is undoubtedly, the source of Muslim traditions about Moses and al - Khidr.49 Traditionally the mysterious teacher has been identified with one al - Khidr.50 The accounts of al - Khidr, the hidden saint - instructor abounds in Uwaysi hagiography as well.51 Ibn «Arabi includes this tradition of Moses - al - Khidr to support the idea of the superiority of the knowledge of the saints over the prophets.

Much of Christian spirituality and hagiography have been interpreted in relation to, and in function of, the later compromise of the Church with the Roman power, feudalism, capitalism and Western imperialism.

Both the ascetic saint and the detached sage, exalted in various hagiographies as the true beacons for humanity, may in the final analysis in themselves prove to be poor human models, because they are, in spite of their perfection, incomplete human beings, static and unchanging.

Ancient Russian hagiography offers examples of the medieval habit of equating what should be with what was.

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.

The Lives of the Saints: Hagiography Through Tolkien's Eyes Nicholas Kotar, Orthodox Arts Journal

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.

What Waugh gives us is not history and certainly not hagiography but a carefully constructed (and funny) novel about a piece of «wood which has endured».

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.

YetMuhammad Ali is that rarest of heroes, a man who, as you remove the gauzylayers of praise, the haze of hagiography, reinforces your best notions ofhim.

He was, and will be, as deserving of his own Michael Lewis - penned hagiography, and these are the lessons that the book would impart.

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.

But The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Bloomsbury, # 25.00) is worth reading despite its length and a tendency to be a hagiography.

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

Cohen and West's approach is so adulatory that the documentary becomes a surface - level work of hagiography.

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.

Though it claims not to be a hagiography, Walk the Line (like last year's Ray) featured the freshly - dead legends as advisors up until their untimely demises, a kind of personal involvement (and Cash's son John Carter is one of Walk the Line's executive producers, just as Ray Robinson Charles Jr. was for Ray) that precludes, methinks, most controversy in the telling.

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.

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.

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.

Loving filmographies of the principals and extras dominates the track, sadly, with particular hagiography reserved for the late Robert Thom («A genius,» proclaim Cimber and Perkins), who, as Perkins's husband at the time, wrote the role of Molly specifically for her based on the couples» backgrounds and contemporary problems.

On paper, Stronger looked like another hagiography; a film that treated a real - life person like a marble saint, void of flaws, trotted out to wave a flag and provide little to no insight.

is one of those behind - the - scenes featurettes that combines morsels of making - of info with lots of talking - heads hagiography, as various actors and producers gab about how great everyone involved in the picture was and hold forth on how inspirational the story is.

You do have to give Cheadle credit for not simply making another dull greatest hits hagiography, the kind of musician biopic we see all too often.

Never feeling like a hagiography, in part because it shares the humility of its subject, The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is an unfailingly human portrait, and its least - flattering moments — such as a tense business meeting with Miyazaki's son, who is never seen in direct contact with his father — serve to casually normalize a man who most cinephiles can't imagine beyond the scope of his worof its subject, The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness is an unfailingly human portrait, and its least - flattering moments — such as a tense business meeting with Miyazaki's son, who is never seen in direct contact with his father — serve to casually normalize a man who most cinephiles can't imagine beyond the scope of his worOf Dreams And Madness is an unfailingly human portrait, and its least - flattering moments — such as a tense business meeting with Miyazaki's son, who is never seen in direct contact with his father — serve to casually normalize a man who most cinephiles can't imagine beyond the scope of his worof his work.

These images are burned into the American psyche; any attempt to recreate them in fictionalized form runs a high risk of turning into either slavish re-enactment or rosy hagiography.

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.

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).

, is less about the film than a hagiography for the pilots and more of an opportunity for career naval men to recruit fledgling naval men.

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.

In a process possibly designed to silence his own doubts about the newsworthiness of his subject, the writer then inflates the star - of - the - week with prose that approaches hagiography.