encomium

I’m as guilty as anyone of having blithely used that exaggerated encomium in composing year-end lists in the past.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021

Barrack managed to slip an encomium to his alleged clients into the chat, mentioning as “allies ... countries like Abu Dhabi with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed,” the emirate’s crown prince.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

A name, a couple of dates, a snatch of prayer, a brief encomium.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021

Granted, those who claim the authority to instruct the rest of us on what deserves that encomium missed its true significance.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2020

"And very plain," put in a third, taking up the encomium like a part in a fugue, "as plain as the grass on the hills!"

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross

CUMMING, Ga. – In a barn 40 miles north of downtown Atlanta, after barbecue was served and local dignitaries basted each other with encomia, Gov. Brian Kemp got down to brass tacks.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022

It has already been translated into six languages and is published with dust-jacket encomia from Russell Brand, Susan Sarandon, Brian Eno, Helena Kennedy QC and Paul Mason.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2016

A Juilliard ensemble played a Haydn string quartet, and later Alfred published a collection of encomia.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016

On Wednesday, he described all the encomia as “over-the-top” and said he found it “flattering, embarrassing and gratifying.”

From New York Times ● May 21, 2015

Upon the same principle we must account for the unmerited encomia lavished upon these fragile blossoms.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay

What wasn’t mentioned in the encomiums showered on Greenspan after his passing at age 100 this past week, was the very different backdrop during his tenure, especially compared with what Warsh faces today.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

President Trump’s State of the Union address was full of patriotic spectacle, and it was moving in its encomiums to the country’s military heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Taking precedence over encomiums and recitations, costumes and nostalgia is the book itself, 710 pages of inner monologue and dialogue, stream of consciousness, blank verse, Greek classics and the venues and byways of Dublin, 1904.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

By then the Judge was plainly ailing, but he sat patiently through the endless encomiums, doing his best to smile through the pain.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021

I was expecting a stodgy, older gentleman who’d offer me canned encomiums about Hopkins and then stiffen and ask for the check when he found out the details of my standardized test scores.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore