These reveal a Janus-faced director, working firmly in a tradition of Victorian hagiography, but clearly searching for contemporary relevance. |
From 1943 to his death in 1989, King Louis Narcisse fused Baptist, Pentecostal, and gris-gris traditions into a gumbo of ritual and hagiography. |
Her biography of Nietzsche is a double hagiography, comic and almost sad in its reflection of her own will to power. |
Attempting to be a hagiography of everybody involved, it becomes instead a satire of the whole folie de grandeur of this absurd project. |
He was certainly no cardboard figure and no amount of hagiography has succeeded in making him a saint. |
Trying to theologize that into a bit of hagiography is about as revolting as a certain senator's endless exploitation of his war record. |