How to Use hagiographic in a Sentence

hagiographic

adjective

• Loudmouth, a hagiographic portrait of the Rev. Al Sharpton, is one of them.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Perhaps in lieu of one of several hagiographic tributes to White's lengthy Olympic history?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• All this is well known, yet Ali’s examination remains an important corrective to the hagiographic praise that Churchill receives to this day.
  — Tariq Ali, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There are hagiographic movies and documentaries about her story.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 9 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Party presses published hagiographic accounts of his life.
  — Time, 16 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• His hagiographic Snowden is an embarrassing paean to anti-patriotism.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
• 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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