How To Use Panegyric In A Sentence
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They were sitting now, listening to the funeral panegyric given by another of the Dominicans, Father Pasquale, pale, podgy, soft-voiced.
THE GOLDEN LION
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He was, says one, an especial lover of books, _librorum amator speciales_: and another in panegyric terms still further dubs him an _amator scripturarum_.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors; they are great at eloquence; and, though without our poetical forms, they have a variety of songs upon all subjects and they improvise panegyrics in honour of chiefs and guests.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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_demi-caractère_, her talents, in the different parts in which she is placed, are above all panegyric.
Paris as It Was and as It Is
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It was too cold to stand there and listen to a panegyric on the loved one's charms.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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They were sitting now, listening to the funeral panegyric given by another of the Dominicans, Father Pasquale, pale, podgy, soft-voiced.
THE GOLDEN LION
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In fact, the essay is so positive and loving as to be a panegyric, and it is difficult to understand the intensity of his displeasure.
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Gone indeed was artists' panegyrical imagery of the Revolution and Empire.
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Though full of similitudes and routine panegyrics, the book is valuable for its lack of originality and reflection of current views.
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The exultant father, from his place in the Senate, expressed his thanks to Theodoric in an oration of panegyric, which is now no longer extant, but was considered by contemporaries a masterpiece of brilliant rhetoric.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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He is commemorated by a gilded bronze effigy in his chapel in St Mary's, Warwick, and an illustrated panegyric by the Warwickshire antiquary John Rous.
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There is a free-rider problem: Why spend time composing a precis or a panegyric when a potential buyer persuaded thereby to want the book will simply buy the cheaper copy offered by the next seller, who spent his time preparing as many bare-bones listings as he could.
The diminishing description
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That Zosimus, who seems to have endeavored to diminish the glory of Constantine, has said nothing of it, is not surprising; but the silence appears very strange in the author of the panegyric of Constantine, pronounced in his presence at Trier; in which oration the panegyrist expresses himself in magnificent terms on all the war against Maxentius, whom this emperor had conquered.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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They have even been described as merely good-humoured looking "fatties" -- a sufficiently humble panegyric.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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In his last drama, "Arminius," he extravagantly scatters his panegyrics on its fifteen predecessors; but of the present one he has the most exalted notion: it is the quintessence of Scudery!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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The panegyric is directed toward the image of Louis, as signified by the bust, the statue, the fleurs-de-lis, and the words of the dedication, with which one of the Muses illustrates a central banner.
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a whiting, that chicken of the ocean, was not a signal for a panegyric of the darker attraction of a _matelotte à la royale_.
The Young Duke
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Now he is the subject of lengthy panegyrics in the press, extolled as the city's savior.
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The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness.
THE SCAR
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I saw another letter from a lady at Paris, in which there was a high panegyrical paragraph concerning you.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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This is not, however, a sycophantic panegyric to Haston or a simple account of his many achievements; the author acknowledges Haston's failings as a climber and as a man.
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For those worried that Gitlin and Leibovitz have written some kind of panegyric on America and Israel, fear not.
Andrei Markovits: The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel and the Ordeals of Divine Elections
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It was too cold to stand there and listen to a panegyric on the loved one's charms.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Demonstrative or panegyrical oratory is associated with the past and urges an audience to honor and imitate a virtuous subject.
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That exalted monarch then entered his own palace, worshipped by exalted Brahmanas conversant with the Vedas, eulogised by chanters of panegyrical hymns and congratulated by the citizens.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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In contrast, the ‘official’ folklorist is praised for his panegyrics addressed to the political authorities, if not the main ruler.
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I consider my rant an ethical warning, a panegyric for the unlived life.
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Remembered primarily as a pastoral poet, he was in fact a most versatile writer, and a bridal hymn, a panegyric, and a mime describing two middle-class women at a showy religious ceremony are among his best pieces.
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These poems exhibit the essential ingredients of African poetry, which is largely panegyrical, dramatic, and musical.
Archive 2007-03-01
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‘I profess to write, not his panegyric, but his Life,’ Boswell stated; ‘which, great and good as he was, must not be supposed to be entirely perfect.’
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A collection of verse panegyrics and occasional poems for the Merovingian kings and their courtiers also survives from the pen of the late sixth-century Italian poet Venantius Fortunatus.
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Jim launched into a panegyric — well, a fisherman's equivalent — to the bountifulness of our lake: He and Carol were taking, on average, 30 to 40 fish a day.
Happy Ending to a Fish Tale
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Some of his more recent panegyrics to the ‘British dream’ emerge curdled and oleaginous.
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By puncturing their smug self-righteousness and their pretense to impossibly high standards, Flashman shows them as genuinely great men and women, not the panegyrical statuary of Victorian literature—and he shows them as such by describing their response to him.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The panegyric is a piece of courtly flattery in accordance with the cringing and fawning manners of the times.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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The two versions of the Pilgrimage present the Venus term and the statue of Venus, respectively, as objects of praise analogous to that of the official panegyric, with the rose of Venus substituted for the royal fleur-de-lis.
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The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness.
THE SCAR
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I presume you were rather surprised not to see my _consequential_ name in the papers [1] amongst the orators of our 2nd speech day, but unfortunately some wit who had formerly been at Harrow, suppressed the merits of Long [2], Farrer [3] and myself, who were always supposed to take the Lead in Harrow eloquence, and by way of a _hoax_ thought proper to insert a panegyric on those speakers who were really and truly allowed to have rather disgraced than distinguished themselves, of course for the _wit_ of the thing, the best were left out and the worst inserted, which accounts for the _Gothic omission_ of my
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
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Note: This panegyric on the soldiery is rather too liberal.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The combination of affection, humour and critical comment makes you trust this author and the genuineness of her familial bond far more than a worshipful panegyric ever would.
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But here is not the proper place for panegyrics on myself.
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His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone.
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Our skeptical era would never tolerate the panegyrics of, say, the Victorian age.
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In the _praeludium_ to Goffe's "Careless Shepherdess," 1656, quarto, there is a panegyric on them, and some concern is shown for the fool's absence in the play itself, while it is stated that "The motley coat was banished with trunk-hose.
A History of Pantomime
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As arguedin this panegyric from the British Observer website, the 30-episode surreal crime drama subtly revolutionized television drama, moving it away from the superficial episodicsof the 80s towards the meatier, more literate fare that’s become the modern bastion of cable television from The Sopranos on down.
Miscellaneous Debris, March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
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At another recent meeting, Yaroslavsky delivered a 1,165-word panegyric commemorating five people, including former Czech president Vaclav Havel and writer Christopher Hitchens, neither of whom had significant dealings with the county.
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Amidst the panegyrical promises of modernization and development, few voices, either left or right, questioned the ideology of progress, though many fought bitterly over the division of the spoils.
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Why, writing a tragedy himself, with a judgment far different from that exhibited in his panegyrical preface, he totally rejects, and therefore tacitly condemns and abjures the use of prose-poetry.
Review
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Because of his position as official court historian, we may be tempted to regard Chastellains testimony as panegyrical embellishment.
The Funeral of Duke Philip the Good
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As to the justice of his panegyric, that is matter of taste.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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Optatianus Porphyrius mentions more than once the monogram of Christ, which he calls the celestial sign, in the panegyric of Constantine which he wrote in Latin verse, but not
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It was too cold to stand there and listen to a panegyric on the loved one's charms.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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Some of his more recent panegyrics to the ‘British dream’ emerge curdled and oleaginous.
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The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness.
THE SCAR
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This is not intended as a panegyric to Terry Reilly.
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Any panegyrical reference to this feat is worth it, even assuming that Kumble is not the first but the second Indian to reach this milestone.
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I am prompted to do so by the panegyrics pronounced by one and all here on the deed which is to form "the brightest page in contemporaneous history;" and, being in the minority, I must needs bow deferentially to the opinions of the mass.
The Mason and Slidell Case, and Its Effect on the Americans
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In what was more of a panegyric than an analysis, his obituarist described him as someone who ‘fought for human rights and against injustice’.
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There are some other geniuses that Mr. Bazzard has become acquainted with, who have also written tragedies, which likewise nobody will on any account whatever hear of bringing out, and these choice spirits dedicate their plays to one another in a highly panegyrical manner.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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About half the tombstone is covered with a long panegyric on his dead wife by a bereaved husband: at the bottom of the stone is a later inscription which reads, Now hes gone, too.
As I Please
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The announcement was immediately followed by panegyrics to O'Connor, who was described by Democratic and Republican leaders alike as a stalwart defender of liberty and democracy.
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The book is laced throughout with panegyrics and tributes to his friends and scientific colleagues that portray these innovators as heroes for the emerging new paradigm.
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Rational Review
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They were sitting now, listening to the funeral panegyric given by another of the Dominicans, Father Pasquale, pale, podgy, soft-voiced.
THE GOLDEN LION
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These images are visual panegyrics in the Erasmian spirit, designed to persuade the sovereign to emulate the symbolic role that the images portray.
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Among the letters Duwes includes (or composes?) from Mary's servants, the following panegyrical address was typical: "To the right high, right excellent, & right magnamous, My right redouted Lady, my Lady Mary of England, my lady and mistress, greeting [you] with joy everlasting.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Dividing his life and his work between politics and leisured retirement, he wrote light poems (nugae), verse panegyrics, and letters, which give a vivid description of Romans and barbarians in fifth-century Gaul.
5. The Later Empire, 284-527 C.E
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To appoint a biographer is to bespeak a panegyric; and I doubt whether they who collect their books for the Public, and, like me, are conscious of no intrinsic worth, do but beg mankind to accept of talents (whatever they were) in lieu of virtues.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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The two versions of the Pilgrimage present the Venus term and the statue of Venus, respectively, as objects of praise analogous to that of the official panegyric, with the rose of Venus substituted for the royal fleur-de-lis.
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As a member of the steering group for the inaugural Edinburgh Art Festival, I wrote a panegyric extolling the possibilities of our brave new project.
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Prose fledges into poetry, cold compliments warm into praise, eulogy rarifies into panegyric and goes off in rhapsody.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus