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

The country’s premier music group is usually known for its panegyric operas dedicated to the “great leaders” from his family.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2020

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