panegyrics

• “I learned from him the secret which several young French literati employ in order to make certain of the perfection of their prose, when they want to write anything requiring as perfect a style as they can obtain, such as panegyrics, funeral orations, eulogies, dedications, etc.”

  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

• “The panegyrics may be far-fetched, but the agony of apostasy would be worse.”

  Law

• “His longtime friend and collaborator Martin Harrison supplemented this with a series of rather lovely extempore panegyrics about the photographer's talent, its roots and influences from dyslexia to love of birdwatching.”

  The Guardian: TV review: We'll Take Manhattan; David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating; Putin, Russia and the West

• “Charles Bukowski, American poet, short story writer, and novelist writes panegyrics for alcohol like a giddy medieval alchemist.”

  The Huffington Post: Network Awesome: Alcohol and Charles Bukowski

• “If there's a vision, he hasn't said what it is, though you can draw your own conclusions from his regular panegyrics on high-speed rail, as empty a liberal chestnut as can be found.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Overcaffeinated CAFE

• “Some of her statements have the tendency to become prevarications, despite panegyrics from her party personna.”

  Poll: Palin best reflects GOP core values

• “Now the readers of epitaphs, generally expect to find panegyrics, so that there would be little danger of falling into a fault on that side; but I think, truth and propriety should be attended to, though it would certainly be better, to be blamed for too much praise, than for coldness.”

  Letter 2

• “But my contrariness about best sellers is also partly related to my resistance when reviewers issue panegyrics and publicists or publishing houses overdo their pitches (book store staffers know what I mean).”

  The Huffington Post: Lev Raphael: The Guy Who Was Glad to Hear Somebody Read Enough of Stieg Larsson

• “One must therefore scrutinize the context from which humanist panegyrics such as the studioli emerged, sorting through the honorifics and inflated rhetoric to weigh the violent circumstances that gave rise to them, as well as to tease out other views hidden between the lines.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Quintessentially, the studioli are "visual panegyrics," 17 akin to and yet distinctly removed from historical precedents and antecedents.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Show 10 more examples...