paean

Example Sentences

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He insisted that he was an independent artist, proving the point by providing decadent, images for an edition of Thomas Malory’s paean to heroic chivalry, “Le Morte d’Arthur.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Muir wrote magnificent paeans to Yosemite; Johnson published them.

From Los Angeles Times

Within weeks, the pair were hooked on the sport; the show that grew out of that is both a paean to the game and has absolutely nothing to do with it.

From Los Angeles Times

It was lovely and haunting: a paean to loss, and proof that grace can be made out of the detritus that remains.

From New York Times

These lugubrious paeans to the Afghan people don't make up for the fact that he and his crew used them as pawns in his administration's global ambitions.

From Salon