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
In a panegyric to his colleague, Mr. Brooks wrote in his New York Times column in December 2020 that “to this day Mark argues that politics is about looking for converts, not punishing heretics.”
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2022
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
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Frankenstein
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For National Pancake Day, Words With the Greek Roots "Pan-"
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