hagiography

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You really sound like this has become the stuff of hagiography, a kind of sacred narrative.

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  1. noun Biography of saints.
  2. noun A worshipful or idealizing biography.

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  • But too many Parsons boosters fall into hagiography, rationalizing or justifying Parsons 'monumental sense of entitlement. —  PopMatters
  • You really sound like this has become the stuff of hagiography, a kind of sacred narrative. —  BlueOregon
  • I know there's a tendency for instant hagiography or demonization in the blogosphere -- to immediately put things in Comic Book Guy terms as the best or worst thing ever -- but I can easily see these five minutes going into a time capsule with the honkies shooting Jack Donaghy, or any of the other usual suspects. —  What's Alan Watching?
  • Paula Span, "Monumental Ambition: Presidential libraries are history and hagiography, archival mother lodes and gift shops pushing start-spangled dish towels," The Washington Post Online, February 17, 2002. —  ArchivesBlogs
  • The site contains a considerable amount of hagiography, with the highlighted "Bush Record Documents" compilations called: —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
 

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  1. from Greek ἄγιος, sacred, LGr. a saint, + -γραφία, from γράφειν, write: see Hagiographa.
 

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/heɪdʒɪˈɑgrəfi/
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