paeans

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The next generation chants paeans, and casts chaplets on the graves, and so the world rings with the names of ghosts, and fame pours generous libations to appease the manes of genius slaughtered on the altar of criticism.

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  1. noun A song of joyful praise or exultation.
  2. noun A fervent expression of joy or praise: "The art . . . was a paean to paganism” (Will Durant).
  3. noun An ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo.

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  • On the day it launched the rocket, North Korea's official KCNU news agency said the Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite is in orbit and sending the tunes of the paeans "Song of General Kim Il-sung" and "Song of General Kim Jong-il" to earth on the frequency of 470 MHz. —  english.chosun.com : Total
  • At once a mirage that vaporizes in undulated waves of saturated color and stuttered movement before you can grasp it, and a definitive version of the filmmaker's paeans to lost love and resigned memory, —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • One good thing about Christmas Day is that it means the end of weeks of aural assaults by mindless rhymesters perverting songs of worship to paeans of praise for hucksters of all kinds, from shopkeepers to banks, from autoparts dealers to purveyors of cheap, non-returnable, eminently breakable, non-biodegradable trash tricked out in plastic, tinsel and lead paint to lure innocent children and entrap their parents.
  • Lewis's attempts to excavate and explore his neuroses are so startlingly lucid and hyperactive that it's easy to caricature him as a kind of blend of Woody Guthrie and Woody Allen, a travelling poet dedicating paeans to pattern baldness rather than dust bowls. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • According to the US Navy the highly unique North Korean satellite has entered subaquatic orbit in the Pacific Ocean, and is transmitting melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans —  ArmsControlWonk
 

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