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This is no hagiography: she could be prickly, stubborn and unsentimental to the point of coldness.
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Without descending into hagiography, each book gives us a compelling portrait of the 20th century's most extraordinary statesman.
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Thompson, joining the field several months after that debate, is still catching up on the Reagan hagiography scoreboard.
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As a result, the Founding Fathers have been protected until recently by a school of biography that barely escaped from hagiography.
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Mr. Roberts does manage to avoid the pitfalls of hagiography by diluting his praise for Zhukov's discipline and dedication with tempered criticism.
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Though it admits the Mahatma's failings, Mr Wolpert's book verges on hagiography, which is disappointing in a life of such a historical figure.
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The story unfolds without hagiography, pity, or trumped-up heroism, as the filmmaker approaches the lives of everyday people with modest compassion and imaginative sympathy.
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Restrained and incisive, his book is respectful without succumbing to hagiography.
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Up to that point, most books about youth sports were mere hagiography, and often those that tried for cultural relevance collapsed under the weight of their pretensions.
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Yet it falls a readable distance short of hagiography.
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There has been far too much hagiography written about Jordan, both in the past and now, far too much hero worship for a man who was, at his core, not an especially empathic person.
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It was a hagiography.
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