Sentences with phrase «hagiography in»

It is thus unsurprising that two recurring themes in the NYU symposium are the tendency toward hagiography in American judicial biography, and the tendency to «canonize» various judges, although once they become canonized they may fall out of favor, or the nature of their «greatness» may change in each generation to suit the needs of the time.

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.

What is stressed in all these stories is the apparently miraculous, non-determined and a-social nature of artistic achievement; this semi-religious conception of the artist's role is elevated to hagiography in the 19th - century, when both art historians, critics and, not least, some of the artists themselves tended to elevate the making of art into a substitute religion, the last bulwark of Higher Values in a materialistic world.

You'd think he would have nurtured quite the big screen hagiography in his lifetime.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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 mentoIn: 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 mentoin 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 mentoin, 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 mentoin 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 mentoin love with her mentor.

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.

As biographies go, this one's pretty close to hagiography - painting in personal details, glossing over the chinks in his armor and in Israeli history.

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.

«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.

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.

Hagiography is to be expected in a biopic but it's more damaging here given how much Woody Harrelson works to ground LBJ.

But we're a little more concerned that, with Disney backing the film, it could become a hagiography, and even more worried about John Lee Hancock («The Blind Side «-RRB- being in the director's chair.

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.

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 work.

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.

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.

Neil Jordan's controversial hagiography to the Big Fella (played by Liam Neeson) in which De Valera is as much a villain as the Black and Tans - was shot in the capital, with Dublin Castle, the Pepper Canister Church and City Hall figuring prominently.

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.

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.

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.

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

On the other hand, Aaron Sorkin's script is a disappointing bit of hagiography, especially in the final act that allows Jobs closure with everyone in his life before emerging triumphant to an adoring crowd.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«Jessica Tandy: Theater Legend to Screen Star» (7 mins., SD) is hagiography through - and - through — and I'm still waiting to see footage of her legendary turn as Blanche in «Streetcar».

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.

* / **** 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.

The film is a relic and should be spoken of in terms of sociology and context rather than hagiography.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin a narrative that could have easily melted into gooey hagiography or pat inspirationalism.»

Lost in hagiographies about his approach is just his presence and physicality.

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.

It does not demonize or engage in hagiography.

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:

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.