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While these celebrity docs are hagiographic and formulaic, the interviews with Nadal and family and rivals like Federer and Novak Djokovic do push beyond the surface.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

He rarely, if ever, does interviews about Celtic unless they're hagiographic in tone.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

He was portrayed by actor Curd Jürgens in a hagiographic 1960 biopic titled I Aim at the Stars, a U.S.–German co-production.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2023

The New York Times says that, despite the franchise’s” influential history,” the film “feels like hagiographic DVD featurettes meanderingly stitched together.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

In addition to this review, the Bollandists undertook the analysis of the hagiographic MSS. in the principal libraries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various