paean
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“Founder’s Fire” is no uncritical paean to the greatness of this country.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Ultimately, that openness allowed Hudson and Jackman to approach Claire and Mike with honesty, essential for a film that’s a fullhearted paean to dreamers at their highest and lowest.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025
The band members impressively stepped into the stunningly gorgeous harmonies of “New Mama,” Young’s delicate and heartwarming paean written after the birth of his first son.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025
The conversation was a prolonged paean to the host, with choral strophe and antistrophe.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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