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hagiography

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disapproving a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was a hagiography of the leader written by one of his closest confidants

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Recent Examples of hagiography Gavenas occasionally veers from hagiography, usually in the form of small, critical quips, but does not linger on the uncertainty of Mary Kay’s sale numbers. — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026 Renzi didn’t approach the project as hagiography. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 June 2026 The current administration is engaged in an effort to bowdlerize American history, stripping away complexity in favor of easy myth and hagiography, not to mention the attempt to whitewash more recent events. — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026 Ferrer’s memoirs are nuanced and deeply insightful, if sometimes a little too close to hagiography. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for hagiography

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In its ongoing exhibition Dalí Lives (via Artificial Intelligence), which opened in 2019, the meeting takes place not through text or image, history or biography, but through a digital reanimation of the man.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Their dalliances with elite men made the tabloids, and their biographies were printed in guidebooks.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2026

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My literary agent, Andy McNicol, is picking me up to go to a breakfast hosted at Claudette by owner Carlos Suarez on lower Fifth to celebrate my memoir, Desire Feeds the Feast.

— Tarajia Morrell, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
Elsewhere in the memoir, Dench spoke about the 2004 sci-fi film’s costuming while comparing costume fittings for movies and theatre.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Nov. 2026

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