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Example sentences for: hagiography
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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.