Sentences with phrase «hagiography at»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* / **** 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.

Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography.

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.