The use and ceremonial procession of the relics paralleled the miraculous healings described in hagiographical sources. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Hulton Archive/Getty Images A ceaseless self-promoter, Gandhi bought up the entire first edition of his first, hagiographical biography to send to people and ensure a reprint. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)
The Sarah Palin soap opera continued – this time in an real opera house – for the premiere of The Undefeated, the hagiographical documentary of the life and times of an Alaskan governor turned political rock star. ❋ Unknown (2011)
This hagiographical obsequiousness suggests that we are to be conducted through a treasury of sacred relics. ❋ Frederic Raphael (2011)
Compared, say, with Pekar and Roberson's Macedonia, let alone the brilliant work of Joe Sacco, Hunt doesn't really probe very far into the human side of the conflict - British soldiers are anonymous snarls, the civilians who mock and disobey the rebels merely rabble; only the rebels themselves are given full hagiographical treatment, including curiously iconic depiction of their faces taken from the classic photographs. ❋ Nwhyte (2010)
Even Maria Rosa Menocal, in her hagiographical treatment of Muslim Spain, The Ornament of the World, admits that non-Muslims did not enjoy equality of rights with Muslims in Andalusia and Cordoba: The dhimmi, as these covenanted peoples were called, were granted religious freedom, not forced to convert to Islam. ❋ Pamela Geller (2010)
Alone among the news networks, Fox did not retail wholly hagiographical material about candidate Obama. ❋ Pamela Geller (2010)
Document and Eyewitness's treatment of its main players is affectionate-going-on-hagiographical, but the implication of that end-point is inescapable. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was only in this incidental capacity that they became a target audience for the hagiographical literature of Hasidism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Significantly, as well as being the first Hasidic book to become available in Yiddish, Shivhei ha-Besht, consisting of cycles of tales celebrating the saintly lives and extraordinary feats of the Besht and his associates, was also the first Hasidic book to belong to the hagiographical genre. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the three and a half decades between the publication of the first collection of Hasidic homilies in Hebrew in 1780 and the publication of the first hagiographical work in Yiddish in 1815, at least thirty speculative works by major figures in the early Hasidic leadership were published exclusively in Hebrew. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Although the women were no more directly involved in the devotional life of the court at this stage than they had been in the earlier period, their Hasidic identity had become firmly established, and it could be nourished by the hagiographical literature that was available to them. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The hagiographical works which proliferated from then on, whether they were published in Hebrew, in Yiddish, or in both, were not directed primarily at women, although women may well have formed a significant proportion of their readership. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Significantly, the hagiographical literature of nineteenth-century hasidism makes no mention whatever of her, nor is any mystical or ethical teaching attributed to her in other genres of hasidic writing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The transmission or consumption of hagiographical tales in Hebrew and even more so in Yiddish served as the lowest point of access into the Hasidic orbit, however much it was promoted from the start as a meritorious activity of the highest degree of holiness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even the popular hagiographical works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contain no more than a handful of incidental references or allusions to their very existence. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Nevertheless, the hagiographical literature of Hasidism suggests that, at least in some cases, women could gain access to the Rebbe in their own right, to be advised and blessed by him as were his male followers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hundreds of [thousands] of @kathyireland [followers] are hagiographic [bots] (hbots). ❋ Nokrater (2018)
