panegyric
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The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
Yet in your book you deplore the panegyric as much as the unillumined attack.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
Now we begin anew with a panegyric to the late 17th-century naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian by Diane Ackerman.
From Scientific American • Dec. 17, 2019
Hypnotized by the Cold War, he launched his attack on Rousseau and then on the idea of ‘‘positive’’ liberty, and in the name of liberal pluralism wrote a fulsome panegyric to ‘‘negative’’ liberty.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2017
After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget:
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Vocabulary lists containing panegyric
Frankenstein
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Poetry: Genres
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For National Pancake Day, Words With the Greek Roots "Pan-"
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