Sentences with word «hagiography»

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

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 profile is the standard form hagiography for someone coming off a big win, but there is some interesting discussion of the positions Tepper was taking in March 2009:

Snowden eventually shades too far into hagiography at the end, trotting out the laughable cliche of a climactic standing ovation and even giving the real - life Snowden a golden - hued cameo.

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.

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.»

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

The great, punk rock gag of Snowden is that Stone somehow managed to make a straightforward Hollywood hagiography about a fugitive hiding out in Russia who a sizeable (though shrinking) portion of the population considers a traitor.

It's filmic hagiography at its most engaging, with great music and gritty shots of downtown New York in the 1970s.

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

NPR celebrates the DNC (Hillary hagiography, fawning, suck up, brown - nose, ass - kissing, have a bucket handy)

This expansive biopic of jazz pioneer Charlie Parker is uncompromised by hagiography or any sell - out to mainstream tastes.

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.

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

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.

No author of a fictitious hagiography would consider the raw facts of Jesus's life to be in any way decorous for a deity - made - man.

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

This reliance on primary sources allows him also to avoid the dangers of trivialization, gossip, and sentimental hagiography that so often beset the disciple's depiction of an admired master.

Birzer describes The Conservative Mind as an exercise in «postmodern hagiography.»

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.

In one a modern story with strong political and social implications is universalized into a morality tale; in the other medieval hagiography is shaped into a dramatic liturgy where matters of the world» politics, economics, and even time itself» are not so much ignored as made inconsequential.

Coontz takes complex legal and theological doctrines such as consent and twists them into a vision of sexual anarchy on one hand — with men and women marrying willy nilly at their loins» urging, like characters in a raunchy Catalonian romance — or brutally subjugated to the dynastic interests of their families, as in so many hagiographies of old.

In the Bryant hagiography, that training camp in the Texas hill country is recalled as «the march to the desert.»

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.

It was much more candid, and therefore more humane, than the Alex Haley hagiography.

Unfortunately, the last half hour of the film slides into a mawkish hagiography of Peter Norman, with lines such as «a man like Peter makes the world go round» and incessant celebration of his courage and heart, diminishing the impact of what is otherwise a revealing and vivid piece.

The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk - and - talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.

It's hard to forget that the Vatican itself initiated the project, but Wenders» affection for his subject is nonetheless obvious and genuine, and as soft as his focus is, the film only occasionally lapses into outright hagiography.

The absence of justice crackles with real - world energy, but the show lacks a dramatic center, cycling through musical - biopic hagiography and procedural - miniseries dullness.

There is a great tendency among Lincoln stories to turn towards hagiography.

Careful not to deify the man, Marrinan and Dewey balance their clear love of their subject with a sobriety that elevates it beyond the usual artist - doc hagiography.

«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.

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.

Contradictions, hype, and hagiography ensue to the extent that a more honest title for this film would be Julian Schnabel: Cult of Personality.

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.

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.

Heck, I'm almost ready to forgive the 7 - minute Affleck hagiography («Going Home: Behind the Scenes with Ben Affleck») that joins another worthless EPK («Capturing Authenticity: Casting Gone Baby Gone» (9 mins.)-RRB-

If new disaster films are meant to celebrate the survivors, then Clint Eastwood's «Sully» is pure hagiography.

Text - based hagiography for Sam Mendes closes out the otherwise perfunctory circle - jerk.

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.

Unlike your typical artist hagiography, Mr. Turner doesn't attempt to cram every significant event and accomplishment of Turner's life into a filmic nutshell.

, 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.