How to Use hagiography in a Sentence

hagiography

noun

• The book gives a good idea of his virtues without resorting to hagiography.
• Well, there goes my plan to write a hagiography of Sam Bankman-Fried.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2022
• Much like pride, the hagiography comes before the fall.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• This is very much a warts-and-all portrait, not a hagiography.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• But Stephen Holden of The Times wrote that this biopic is, more than anything, hagiography.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 6 July 2017
• Agrelo steers clear of the straight-up hagiography that plagues so many docs framed as tributes to their subjects.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• Party media have since amped up the hagiography, casting Xi as the father of the nation and the man uniquely equipped to lead.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
• In hagiography, druids were the Irish and British version of pagan wizards.
  — Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• But for those who resist the temptation to put the book down there, what follows is not the hagiography the opening lines suggest.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• When a revered man dies, the lines between hagiography and history are blurred.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 23 Feb. 2020
• The director is closely connected to Nazarbayev and a few years ago shot a hagiography about him, Way of the Leader.
  — Nick Holdsworth, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2019
• The King story is not immune to hagiography: There are countless King tributes around the country very much in this vein.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• The author reveres his subject, but this is no hagiography.
  — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
• There are dozens of books on Lee in English and Chinese, many of them hagiographies by family members.
  — Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
• The early hagiographies, the images etched into those cathedrals, still hold lessons for us today.
  — Matthew Gabriele, Time, 20 Apr. 2020
• For all of Farrell’s access to Kennedy’s circle, his book is no hagiography.
  — Jackie Calmes, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• The book is an unapologetic tribute to Churchill but not a hagiography.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• For 159 minutes, Elvis indulges in hagiography and pinpoints the singer’s only mistake as trusting the wrong man.
  — Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
• By focusing on process and showing the day-to-day lives of now-renowned artists, The Loft Generation avoids hagiography and embraces humor.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
• Perhaps the most notable way The Crown honors Diana in these episodes is by avoiding the temptation to turn them into hagiography.
  — EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• This collection — the first installment of a promised five-part series — is a rare example of hagiography done right.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Jackson’s feats in baseball and football are legendary, but this is no hagiography.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• The sisters’ show can sometimes feel like hagiography; there is little discussion of Basquiat’s demons or the aspects of his home life that may have been difficult.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Now, Hall revisits McCormick’s life after his death, teasing the truth from hagiography and telling the long, twisting tale of a man crushed by his own masterwork.
  — Longreads, 7 Apr. 2023
• The film is set up to champion King as a paragon of civil rights, but Stone, in the complexity of her portrayal, rightly backs away from such hagiography.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2017
• Post-demise, fans and culture writers secured its legacy quickly, with a bevy of hagiographies and oral histories.
  — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
• The Basquiat sisters have been accused of putting on a hagiography that idealizes its subject rather than giving a complete picture of his life.
  — Lily Moayeri, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• The trouble with chronicling genius is that, if not careful, the process can quickly veer into hagiography.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• Yet her words hardly tarnish the overwhelming sense of hagiography.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• Hamilton, for better or worse, ignited a national conversation about the founders, hagiography and how Americans think about their country’s beginning, and about themselves.
  — Alexis Coe, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2024

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024