Sentences with phrase «many hagiographies»

(Never mind that the film is not exactly a hagiography.)

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

No hagiography.

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

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

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.

Hagiography is not history, and Bonhoeffer's story is so compelling that apotheosis is hard to resist.

But we don't need precedents or precepts from hagiography, since the Lord himself instructs us when we pray to say Abba, Father.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Pole is not treated to hagiography; but that is unnecessary: his life is most edifying.

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.

I've written a hagiography about a player who had similar charges leveled against him.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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-