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词汇 hagiographic
释义 hagiographic
adjective
 literaryuk /ˌhæɡ.i.əˈɡræf.ɪk/ us /ˌhæɡ.i.əˈɡræf.ɪk/
very admiring of someone and representing the person as perfect or much better than they really are: 理想化的,过度美化的
The biography has been criticized for being too hagiographic.这本传记因对人物的过度美化而受到批评。
Weinraub takes a hagiographic approach, portraying him as a historical hero first and a human being second. 韦恩劳布的态度过于理想化,首先将他描绘成一个历史英雄,其次才是一个人。
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hagiography
The book is a largely hagiographic account of the former President and his supposed strengths.
The show opens with a video collage of Mr. Durst's television appearances that's uncomfortably hagiographic.
In what must be the least hagiographic obituary ever published, Pratt is described as an "unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous

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Other than an outburst of official and hagiographic works in the early years after his death, only a couple of works substantially treat his career.
All of this liturgical and musical restructuring occurred in conjunction with a translation of relics, an architectural building site and even a hagiographic ' building site'.
In addition to sermons, she uses different genres of hagiographic material, chronicles, archival material, wall paintings and manuscript illuminations.
I shall offer no apology for the hagiographic overtones of the preceding two paragraphs of this review.
The relationship between individual and persona is considerably more integrated than that between representation (literary, artistic, mythological, hagiographic) and reality.
Other responsories, based on different hagiographic texts, were also rewritten, not in metric but in assonantal verse.
The reworking of hagiographic texts suggests a model applicable to the rewriting process found in musical compositions.
Biographies, scholarly essays and even hagiographic works were devoted to a president who seemed to relish his reputation for a disregard of democratic niceties.
Although the book is very readable and offers good illustrations, it tends to lapse into hagiographic descriptions of religious leadership.
Some hagiographic texts can illuminate the situation.
However, ecclesiastically the language retained its important position, and many hagiographic texts were also composed during this period.
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One fragment with a hagiographic flavour was once thought to belong to the saga but more recent research indicates that it is from another text.
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The work is 46 chapters long, elaborately composed using complex sentences and displays a familiarity with many earlier hagiographic writings.
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This terse formulaic composition draws heavily on the hagiographic conventions and yields very few historical details.
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Another important category found in the library is the hagiographic texts.
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