paean

How To Use paean In A Sentence

• In the armies of classical Greece, the paean or war-chant was the standard opening to set-piece battles.
• This is a paean to the power and value of globalisation as a force for good.
• The play is a character-driven comedy but also becomes a paean to the joy that achieving even modest goals can bring.
• Kepler in particular wrote Paeans to God on the occasion of each discovery.
• Fragonard and Watteau created frothy paeans to the pleasures of surface, frivolity, and irresponsibility.
• Count on more of his unusual routines, such as his strenuously graceful paeans to classical opera, sung by his favorite singer.
• Interwoven with the tale of the group sighting the great bustard is a paean to the kind of childhood that has all but disappeared, and a study of a father-and-son relationship of both huge emotional distance and tender intimacy.
• I've always wanted to use the word paean in a post -- Alec Saunders SquawkBox
• Its impact on Reilly, who was at Wilson's bedside at the very end, ran much deeper, and while this work is explicitly signalled as a 'paean' - literally a song of joy or exultation - it is one etched in melancholy notes. Drowned In Sound // Feed
• ‘White Moon’ is a slow piano paean, stinging with maracas, moonlight-sonata piano, and subtle drums.