How to Use hagiographic in a Sentence

hagiographic

adjective
  • But all the myth and sorrow around the dynasty mean many takes tilt hagiographic.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Recording a song for the hagiographic Ronald Reagan movie but not his own biopic?
    — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
  • That’s a little too hagiographic, even for this finale era of The Late Show.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The Gracious Visionary is a rather hagiographic film title for one’s life and work.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2026
  • There are hagiographic movies and documentaries about her story.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 9 Mar. 2020
  • This is the same notion that makes this more of a hagiographic portrait than a truly thoughtful biographical film.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Though mighty hagiographic, McPhee’s ability to break down a player’s gifts makes a poetic case for the game.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Since this is a book aimed at a general audience, its hyperbole and hagiographic bent are understandable, at least to some extent.
    — Carlos Eire, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Museum shows tied to big pop-culture phenomenon can be hagiographic and, at worst, feel like a funnel leading visitors straight to the gift shop.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • This is no hagiographic portrait of Czechoslovak Radio as a beacon of civic resistance.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Perhaps in lieu of one of several hagiographic tributes to White's lengthy Olympic history?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Stalin willed into being socialist realism, a hagiographic style that crept into art forms like music and painting.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Judaica stores sell decorative ritual pieces, such as menorahs, and hagiographic portraits of rabbis, but art as social critique is frowned upon.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Even in 1992, post-colonial sentiment was such that Scott’s treatment seemed weirdly hagiographic.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The work is not hagiographic in its appraisal of Boone, whose shortcomings—his business naivete, for instance—the authors readily acknowledge.
    — Peter Cozzens, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Of course, a person making a hagiographic documentary about the production of the show for Netflix probably isn’t the world’s most neutral source.
    — Sharon Adarlo, Futurism, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Years of hagiographic media coverage and his immense social-media reach birthed legions of fanboys and nurtured a cult of personality.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
  • Granted, there’s some of that, too, but any case Bombach builds for the Girls being heroes feels fairly well-earned, and less hagiographic than many recent music docs that have come down the pike.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
  • What historians and theologians know about Francis comes primarily from his own writings and hagiographic texts.
    — Vanessa Corcoran, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026
  • All this is well known, yet Ali’s examination remains an important corrective to the hagiographic praise that Churchill receives to this day.
    — Tariq Ali, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Her book makes a refreshing change from the hagiographic tone of most Bowie biographies, said John Aizlewood on iNews.
    — The Week Staff, theweek, 6 June 2024
  • Though Kanye West hovered over 2019 like a sentient burial shroud, other artists took a less self-hagiographic approach to their projects and personas.
    — The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Succession after the prophet’s death was a far more complicated affair than the popular hagiographic accounts indicate.
    — Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016
  • Likewise, Gori has essentially ignored government demands to tone down the hagiographic glow emitted by the museum.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 30 June 2019
  • Tim Ballard, the anti-trafficking activist whose purported rescues of abducted children inspired the film, basked in its hagiographic glow.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That means no lucrative speeches, no hagiographic book deals, no fawning interviews, no plum sinecures in the private or nonprofit sector, and no appointments to blue ribbon government posts.
    — Timothy Kudo, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
  • His hagiographic Snowden is an embarrassing paean to anti-patriotism.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Some people might assume that a liberal Rolling Stone journalist might write something hagiographic about Garner, but this book doesn't shy away from the complications of this life.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 24 Oct. 2017
  • From the preface, the reader knows to expect a hagiographic treatment of Murrow, as well as an abiding faith in the power of journalism and a romantic view of American democracy.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Although Neville obviously had the cooperation of many in Bourdain’s inner circle, the film never feels authorized or hagiographic.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2021

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