How to Use hagiographic in a Sentence
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Loudmouth, a hagiographic portrait of the Rev. Al Sharpton, is one of them.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2022
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Though Kanye West hovered over 2019 like a sentient burial shroud, other artists took a less self-hagiographic approach to their projects and personas.
—The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
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Granted, there’s some of that, too, but any case Bombach builds for the Girls being heroes feels fairly well-earned, and less hagiographic than many recent music docs that have come down the pike.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
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Perhaps in lieu of one of several hagiographic tributes to White's lengthy Olympic history?
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
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Museum shows tied to big pop-culture phenomenon can be hagiographic and, at worst, feel like a funnel leading visitors straight to the gift shop.
—Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
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The work is not hagiographic in its appraisal of Boone, whose shortcomings—his business naivete, for instance—the authors readily acknowledge.
—Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
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From the preface, the reader knows to expect a hagiographic treatment of Murrow, as well as an abiding faith in the power of journalism and a romantic view of American democracy.
—Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
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Some people might assume that a liberal Rolling Stone journalist might write something hagiographic about Garner, but this book doesn't shy away from the complications of this life.
—Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
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Since this is a book aimed at a general audience, its hyperbole and hagiographic bent are understandable, at least to some extent.
—Carlos Eire, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
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Even the Soviets, who, during Khrushchev’s tenure, turned away from the hagiographic excesses of the Stalinist era, found the deification of the Kim family absurd.
—Hannah Beech, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
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After walking away from the show and decamping to Yellow Springs, Ohio, Chappelle gained a shroud of mystique, lending his namesake series a hagiographic quality.
—Yohana Desta, HWD, 13 Sep. 2017
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There are hagiographic movies and documentaries about her story.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 9 Mar. 2020
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Likewise, Gori has essentially ignored government demands to tone down the hagiographic glow emitted by the museum.
—David Segal, New York Times, 30 June 2019
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That means no lucrative speeches, no hagiographic book deals, no fawning interviews, no plum sinecures in the private or nonprofit sector, and no appointments to blue ribbon government posts.
—Timothy Kudo, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
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Judaica stores sell decorative ritual pieces, such as menorahs, and hagiographic portraits of rabbis, but art as social critique is frowned upon.
—Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
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Around him, primarily Italian actors gamely wrestle with thickly accented English dialogue, most of it hagiographic and all of it dull.
—Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
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Although Neville obviously had the cooperation of many in Bourdain’s inner circle, the film never feels authorized or hagiographic.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2021
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The Roasteries could perhaps be justified as loss leaders for their hagiographic treatment of coffee and the Starbucks brand – particularly its championing of small-farm, small-batch single origin coffees.
—Benjamin Romano, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
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The Renée Zellweger vehicle is the kind of hagiographic musical biopic the Academy gobbles up — full of dueling compassion and voyeurism, the looming phantom of death, emotional manipulation, relentless drug use and gutting flashbacks.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2019
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The most responsible forms of monumental history are vaguely hagiographic accounts of great events and figures from the past (usually men) with narratives constructed to inspire patriotic love of country.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 24 Feb. 2022
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His hagiographic Snowden is an embarrassing paean to anti-patriotism.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
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Its structure is too often sloppy, with uneasy transitions from biography to personal digression; its tone is occasionally treacly; its treatment of Converse is hagiographic.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
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