encomium

The director is Reginald Hudlin, but, in tone and temperament, this lovingly assembled encomium is peak Oprah Winfrey.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

I’m as guilty as anyone of having blithely used that exaggerated encomium in composing year-end lists in the past.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021

Granted, those who claim the authority to instruct the rest of us on what deserves that encomium missed its true significance.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2020

Certainly there was no evidence in its encomium to Koch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2019

And having delivered himself of this modest encomium on his own worth, there was a stage-wait of about a minute, that might have been relieved by some words conceding his superiority, but wasn't.

From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan

CUMMING, Ga. – In a barn 40 miles north of downtown Atlanta, after barbecue was served and local dignitaries basted each other with encomia, Gov. Brian Kemp got down to brass tacks.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2022

Seen thus, the Alger books are not merely encomia on hard work but disturbing texts about power, desire, eros and fantasy — elements that are also integral to American perceptions of wealth.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

It has already been translated into six languages and is published with dust-jacket encomia from Russell Brand, Susan Sarandon, Brian Eno, Helena Kennedy QC and Paul Mason.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2016

A Juilliard ensemble played a Haydn string quartet, and later Alfred published a collection of encomia.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016

The characters of the deceased, like the encomia on tombstones, as they are described with religious tenderness, so are they read, with allowing sympathy indeed, but yet with rational deduction.

From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What wasn’t mentioned in the encomiums showered on Greenspan after his passing at age 100 this past week, was the very different backdrop during his tenure, especially compared with what Warsh faces today.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

President Trump’s State of the Union address was full of patriotic spectacle, and it was moving in its encomiums to the country’s military heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Alabama had 32 chart-topping country singles between 1980 and 1993, including encomiums to rural pride like “Tennessee River” and “Mountain Music.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

These encomiums stood in stark contrast to Harlan’s reputation among many of his contemporaries and later generations of legal chroniclers.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

I was expecting a stodgy, older gentleman who’d offer me canned encomiums about Hopkins and then stiffen and ask for the check when he found out the details of my standardized test scores.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore