| Despite its arguably hagiographic and romantic nature, he presents some excellent material. |
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| For unless one subjects the self-serving declarations of one's protagonist to scrutiny, one ends up writing in the hagiographic mode. |
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| While the foreign press has been flattering to the British, our own press has been positively hagiographic. |
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| It was hugely popular in 1930s Hollywood, where the lives of the great, the worthy and the impossibly good were recorded in a hagiographic pearly light. |
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| The five books under review here are different in kind from most previous nontechnical ceramics books, which have been either hagiographic or reportorial. |
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| Perhaps one of his collaborators was the Saint's jailer, the man who later discovered, according to hagiographic writers, to be his uncle. |
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| The two series's of each five confessionals in the southern and northern aisle form a hagiographic chess game. |
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| It is a surprising group of images, found in connection with a variety of texts, including Gospel books, hagiographic collections, and liturgical volumes. |
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| They devise TV tributes, hagiographic movies and Broadway-style shows of the kind I saw in London last week and will be telling you about later in this column. |
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| So most writing on King Bhumibhol is hagiographic. |
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| Included in the Records of the Transmission of the Lamp and in other hagiographic compendia, the public cases are likened to legal precedents that are designed to guide the followers of Zen. |
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| Although he remains loyal to his sources and treats his subjects respectfully, Bomann-Larsen clearly distances himself from the hagiographic approach that was standard fare in this subgenre for many years. |
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| We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature. |
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| This hagiographic theme draws on the Biblical account of the staff of the prophet Moses. |
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| Some hagiographic legends state that his father was a king named Suddhodana, his mother queen Maya, and he was born in Lumbini gardens. |
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| The Golden Legend of Jacob de Voragine compiled a great deal of medieval hagiographic material, with a strong emphasis on miracle tales. |
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| Although not scripture in the strictest sense, they provide a hagiographic look at Nanak's life and the early start of Sikhism. |
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| Her purpose was primarily to consult the Ming editions of the Taoist Canon preserved at the French National Museum in connection with her research project on hagiographic illustrations in the Ming Taoist Canon. |
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| As you will have noticed, historians' studies, until today, have mainly considered the hagiographic texts that are connected to two great traditions: the Vita Sancti Rochi by Francesco Diedo and the Acta breviora. |
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| The reader is left none the wiser. Mr Buffett deserves careful scrutiny rather than the mostly hagiographic portrayal he has generally received from the press. |
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| Seventy-five years later, hagiographic historians are still covering for a cardsharp who dealt a hand that is still plundering the public and centralizing power. |
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| Among the topics are the outbreak of Montanism, the meaning of witness in the Apocalypse, martyrdom as a gift, and the hagiographic dossier of a saint. |
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| A number of legends and hagiographic lives of Breton saints contain references to the close political ties between religious communities in Wales and Brittany. |
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| Hagiographic works, especially those of the Middle Ages, can incorporate a record of institutional and local history, and evidence of popular cults, customs, and traditions. |
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