Example sentences for: hagiography

How can you use “hagiography” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 19 "," he is right that the continual hagiography of Michael Jordan ignores the damage that Jordan has done to the concept of teamwork.

  • But the McCain hagiography is not harmless.

  • Among the nearly 200 pages of hagiography: 1) letters to Time from Harpo Marx, Salvador Dalí, William Randolph Hearst, and Frank Sinatra ("as usual your information stinks," Frank wrote in 1961); 2) an array of great cover images; 3) Time 's most and least prescient comments (in 1983, a prediction that the paparazzi would kill a member of the royal family, and in 1933, a prediction that Hitler was destined for obscurity); and 4) a list of Time neologisms ("socialite," "televangelist," and "World War II").

  • This hagiography, produced by Sonny Bono's widow, includes the mandatory scene of the downtrodden composer working out his masterpieces.

  • That the people with whom Brandon feels most at home would kill him if they knew his true gender is the movie's most tragic irony--and the one that lifts it out of the realm of gay-martyr hagiography and into something more complex and irreducible: a meditation on the irrelevance of gender.


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