Writing on film is already trashy enough, already skewed by celebrity suck-up values and movie star hagiolatry. |
The companion to media demonisation is the hagiolatry of Western leaders and apologetics for their crimes. |
Most biographies of him have been exercises in hagiolatry, failing to mention his considerable weaknesses. |
It is calculated that more than 2,000 books have been published on him, but a great deal of it is hagiolatry, lacking critical rigour and dispassionate appraisal. |
In this country and in USA there is a distinguished tradition of hagiolatry of these scoundrels. |
But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. |