Examples of 'hagiographic' in a sentence

Meaning of "hagiographic"

Hagiographic is an adjective describing excessively flattering or idealized portrayals of something, especially a person
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  • Of or pertaining to hagiography.
  • Uncritically reverent; adulating.

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There are numerous hagiographic biographies of him.
We know how cautiously we must read the hagiographic texts.
All contain hagiographic matter.
He mostly engaged in study of medieval Georgian chronicles and hagiographic literature.
Later tradition and hagiographic texts present inconsistent stories.
But there are also biases in the hagiographic discourse.
Not a hagiographic biography.
Virtually all tell the same hagiographic story.
These hagiographic Marian festival texts give wider perspective to Marian family circle than biblical texts.
Alongside its scholarly thought were hagiographic stories venerating its leadership.
Hagiographic fabrications, not historical truths.
Also rather hagiographic.
You can establish a hagiographic model of holiness from the investigation of biographies of malagrida?
Montage of Heck does not attempt to paint a hagiographic portrait of Cobain.
It is an almost hagiographic biography, written shortly after the death of Pacelli.

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Her martyrdom is described in her confessor Jacob 's hagiographic work.
There is a considerable lore of hagiographic tradition concerned with the young Shembe.
Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi suggests in Iranica that the last version is " undoubtedly legendary and hagiographic.
Pace di Valentino created the hagiographic scenes with the embossed technique.
It is found there in the section called “ Kethubim, ” the Hagiographic division.
This story is not found in hagiographic accounts of other saints ' lives.
First text translation exercises ( New Testament, hagiographic texts ).
The earliest attempts at methodical hagiographic criticism date from the beginning of the 17th century.
Well, this is certainly hagiographic.
It is an almost hagiographic biography, written shortly after the death of the Pontiff.
Wulfstan 's Vita follows a format similar to other hagiographic works of the time.
Apart from his rich hagiographic work, Kallinikos also did many philanthropy works.
Scully, those stories you are referring to are mostly regarded as … hagiographic fabrications, not historical truths.
Icons, murals, hagiographic paintings, and precious and unique mosaics have been looted or destroyed.
Scully, those stories are mostly regarded as hagiographic fabrications, not historical truths.
Despite its hagiographic nature, Chapter 36 contains a lot of reliable historical data.
I don't know. Scully, those stories are mostly regarded as hagiographic fabrications, not historical truths.
In one of the hagiographic stories about St. Jacob, he defeats a fire-breathing dragon.
It first appears in " The Martyrdom of Saint Shushanik ", a 5th-century work of Georgian hagiographic literature.
His writings, devoted to Breton hagiographic and historical subjects, were very popular.
His hagiographic Life was completed in 884 by a Breton monk named Wrmonoc of Landévennec,.
His life was compiled in the hagiographic work written by Giorgi Merchule in 951.
The event was, as you 'd expect, highly reverential, bordering on the hagiographic.
Are mostly regarded as hagiographic fabrications, Scully, those stories you're referring to.
The Hollywood Reporter called it " an altogether hagiographic - one could even say pro-mob - biopic . ".
Within a decisively hagiographic ambience, Bardina 's political, social and economic views are generally ignored.
First text translation exercises ( biblical texts, hagiographic texts borrowed from Chrestomathia aethiopica A. Dillmann ).
These include two hagiographic accounts, written in the 9th and 12th centuries CE respectively.
Q, What does hagiographic mean?
They ran a hagiographic article at the weekend entitled “ What we can learn from John McCain . ”.
There is a ridiculous hagiographic Modi bio-pic, full of falsehood, that has just been released.
This work, despite being more hagiographic than historic, remains the only full-blown biography of Provancher.
In one of the hagiographic stories about St. Jacob, he defeats a fire-breathing dragon . [ citation needed ].
A social history of the hagiographic culture in the North of the Iberian Peninsula ( 8th-12th centuries ).

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