Sentences with phrase «hagiography for»

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:

, 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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 praisFor 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 praisfor outsiders, it smacks of hagiography and bragging that does not fit the humble, down to earth qualities of the individual being praised.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Pimp turned successful urban fiction author Robert Beck gets a loving, burnished treatment in the new documentary «Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp,» a film which awkwardly straddles the line between amiable hagiography and a more discerning sociological study of the constricted economic opportunities for African - Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.

Angelina Jolie's portrait of emotional and physical endurance aims for the epic but falls into hagiography

Still, for anyone interested in the pope and his progressive message, it'll be more tastefully done than the hack - y hagiography it could've been in other hands.

* / **** 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.

In our review of the film, we praise Green for bringing his «A-game to a project more fraught with trainwreck potential than anything he's tackled before, demonstrating a refreshing shrewdness and restraint in a narrative that could have easily melted into gooey hagiography or pat inspirationalism.»

Christian hagiography parallels closely that of other cultures and religions — the stories, for instance, of Moslem and Buddhist saints, and the hero - cults of the ancient Greek city - states.

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.

The Dead Nor am I a fan of Christopher Wool's work, pacem the canon formation / hagiography in operation in many of the notable reviews of the show — Peter Schjeldahl: «Like it or not, Christopher Wool, now fifty - eight, is probably the most important American painter of his generation,» Roberta Smith: first, October 24, «this exhibition is an elegant experiential treat» but, while assuring him the best patrilineage, still a bit tepid «How a painting is made has long been part of its content — before Pollock for sure, and even before Manet.