as in biography
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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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The result is not hagiography, but a revealing glimpse inside the too-brief life of an artist as tormented as he was talented.
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Rivers is too complicated a personality for hagiography.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Advertisement That story is neither hagiography nor hit job.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
This dramatization of John F. Kennedy’s heroics during World War II was accused of hagiography when it was released, five months before Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
Rivers is too complicated a personality for hagiography.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Advertisement That story is neither hagiography nor hit job.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
This dramatization of John F. Kennedy’s heroics during World War II was accused of hagiography when it was released, five months before Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Hagiography.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiography. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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