hagiography

IPA: hægiˈɑgrʌfi

(uncountable) The study of saints and the documentation of their lives.
(countable) A biography of a saint.
(countable, by extension) A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
(derogatory) A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.

Examples of "hagiography" in Sentences

All hagiography and no criticism.
This is a biography, not a hagiography.
This is a hagiography, not a biography.
It is unabashed and biased hagiography.
It's a piece of sycophantic hagiography.
This is a biography, not a hagiography...
At present it is a poorly written hagiography.
I agree that this page is unblemished hagiography.
An encyclopedia is not supposed to be hagiography.
And for the record, this article isn't a hagiography.
The flip side of the hagiography is the backlash Jacklash?
Closely connected with Greek hagiography is Slavonic hagiography.
I don't know what his hagiography is like, but his writing on music is notoriously untrustworthy.
It looks and sounds very similar to the Stalin hagiography you posted not very long ago … animalauthor
But despite the book's subtitle, "Toward a Gay Hagiography," any such hagiography is simply invisible in the book.
I am not saying he was a bad man, I am just not drinking your Kool-Aid, and I think this newspaper indulged in hagiography. —
But a disturbing quality I find in UU hagiography is that it often revises the portraits of our saints to more closely resemble who we would have liked them to be than who they actually were.
Might be interesting to compare Latin hagiography (say, the Life of Cuthbert) with English hagiography (Aelfric's Life of Oswald), but I worry that doing so would be more appropriate for a Medieval Literature class than for a true survey.