hagiography
传记,传记文学,传记文学作品,圣战
Definitions
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plural hag·i·og·ra·phies.
- : the writing and critical study of the lives of the saints; hagiology.
- : a biography that treats the person with excessive or undue admiration.
Examples
Birdsall gives us a portrait of Beard that is neither a take-down nor hagiography.
She wants a “hagiography,” and the conflicts and confusions that ensue provide The Last Word with its comic momentum.
We Could Be King is, of course, part of a larger emergent genre, that of the high school football hagiography.
Surfing on an ocean of media hagiography, Christie seemed unbeatable just when it was time for Democrats to declare themselves.
And thank God, given the current glut of baseball hagiography on the market.
One has to be careful not to descend into a mess of hagiography.
But the great and absorbing subject of poetry in this age is Hagiography.
Hagiography was now a lost branch of art, as completely lost as wood carving, and the miniatures of the old missals.
The second version, though LB calls it miraculum insolitum, is one of the commonplaces of hagiography.
Space would now fail us to trace the development of hagiography in the Church.
The hagiography of the Eastern and the Greek church also has been the subject of important publications.