as in biography
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a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was
a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants
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Review Reviewed by Jessica T. Mathews January/February 2025 Published on January 7, 2025
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John Lewis: A Life
By David Greenberg
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Greenberg manages to avoid hagiography in telling the story of an exemplary life.
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Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
To further the hagiography, the script flubs its own plot points.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
The hagiographies omit some key details about how the wolf got along.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2020
But Francis of Assisi does have double vision, maneuvering constantly between hagiography and history, legend and fact, heaven and Earth, miracles and—what’s the opposite of miracles?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
To further the hagiography, the script flubs its own plot points.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
The hagiographies omit some key details about how the wolf got along.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2020
But Francis of Assisi does have double vision, maneuvering constantly between hagiography and history, legend and fact, heaven and Earth, miracles and—what’s the opposite of miracles?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Hagiography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiography. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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