hagiographic

excessively flattering toward someone's life or work

Most accounts of Tiger Woods's life were hagiographic, until, that is, his affairs made headlines.

In her astute review of Louis Begley's biographical essay on Kafka [NYR, July 17], Zadie Smith draws on Gustav Janouch's Conversations with Kafka (1951), while observing that the work is "hagiographic" and that Kafka's words are "'reported speech' and most probably prettified for publication."

Allan Benton, a smoked-bacon artisan in Madisonville, Tenn., has received the kind of hagiographic accolades from food magazines and celebrity chefs usually reserved for food magazines and celebrity chefs.

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