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单词 hagiographic
释义
hagiographic
adjective
literary
uk
/ˌhæɡ.i.əˈɡræf.ɪk/us
/ˌhæɡ.i.əˈɡræf.ɪk/
veryadmiringof someone andrepresentingthepersonasperfector muchbetterthan they really are:
理想化的，过度美化的
Thebiographyhas beencriticizedfor being too hagiographic.这本传记因对人物的过度美化而受到批评。
Weinraubtakesa hagiographicapproach,portrayinghim as ahistoricalherofirst and ahumanbeing 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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  • Thebookis alargelyhagiographicaccountof theformerPresidentand hissupposedstrengths.
  • The showopenswith avideocollageof Mr. Durst'stelevisionappearancesthat'suncomfortablyhagiographic.
  • In what must be the least hagiographicobituaryeverpublished, Pratt isdescribedas an "unabashedsnobandsocialinterloperon agrandscale".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
  • backhanded compliment
  • bootlicker
  • bow and scrapeidiom
  • crawler
  • creep
  • fawn
  • flummery
  • glad-handing
  • grovel
  • idealization
  • idealize
  • obsequious
  • people pleaser
  • play up tosomeone
  • schmooze
  • servile
  • slobber
  • toady
  • toadying
  • unctuous
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(Definition ofhagiographicfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Other than an outburst of official andhagiographicworks in the early years after his death, only a couple of works substantially treat his career.
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All of this liturgical and musical restructuring occurred in conjunction with a translation of relics, an architectural building site and even ahagiographic' building site'.
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In addition to sermons, she uses different genres ofhagiographicmaterial, chronicles, archival material, wall paintings and manuscript illuminations.
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I shall offer no apology for thehagiographicovertones of the preceding two paragraphs of this review.
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The relationship between individual and persona is considerably more integrated than that between representation (literary, artistic, mythological,hagiographic) and reality.
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Other responsories, based on differenthagiographictexts, were also rewritten, not in metric but in assonantal verse.
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The reworking ofhagiographictexts suggests a model applicable to the rewriting process found in musical compositions.
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Biographies, scholarly essays and evenhagiographicworks were devoted to a president who seemed to relish his reputation for a disregard of democratic niceties.
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Although the book is very readable and offers good illustrations, it tends to lapse intohagiographicdescriptions of religious leadership.
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Somehagiographictexts can illuminate the situation.
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However, ecclesiastically the language retained its important position, and manyhagiographictexts were also composed during this period.
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One fragment with ahagiographicflavour 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 earlierhagiographicwritings.
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This terse formulaic composition draws heavily on thehagiographicconventions and yields very few historical details.
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Another important category found in the library is thehagiographictexts.
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