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• President Barack Obama has eulogized U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke as a clear-eyed realist whose legacy of peace reaches around the world. World Leaders, Officials Honor Late US Diplomat Holbrooke
• The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral
• An excellent article by Julie Burchill on the habit of Western women travel writers to eulogise over holidays in Muslim countries despite the appalling restriction on the lives on native women. Archive 2008-07-01
• This cult of sacrifice is eulogised in a number of inscriptions on tablets called the hero-stones found in this part of the country and these glorify the warrior clans and their valor.
• Such is very nearly the euchology which man adopts; such are the discordant, absurd requests which he continually puts up to the Divinity, whose wisdom he extols; whose intelligence he holds forth to admiration; whose providence he eulogizes; whose equity he applauds; whilst he is hardly ever contented with the effects of the divine perfections. The System of Nature, Volume 2
• In 1991, during his first show after his son, Rick, died in a car accident, Carson took a few moments to eulogize him. Our Favorite Johnny Carson Moments
• Ignotus pecori, 'as eulogised by the virgin-chorus in the beautiful epithalamium of Catullus, might be recognised in the youthful' religieuse 'if only human passion could be excluded; but the story of Heloise and Abelard is not a solitary proof of the superiority of human nature over an impossible and artificial spirituality. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
• Still, when Thoreau died in 1862, Emerson eulogized him as a failure, albeit beloved: ‘He seemed born for greatness and I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.’
• I hope your other remarks are not going to be on this level and the English Literature you eulogise (quite correctly) appears to stop with the Elizabethans and before the novel - some mistake surely. Phillip Shipley MP Wants Union Jack on Mosques
• He was eulogized as a hero.