panegyric

The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.

“So please don’t be disappointed for the lack of a eulogy or panegyric,” Cardinal Czerny said.

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.”

"You can't judge historical writings by the standards of our time. These writings were mostly panegyrics, written to glorify the leaders and rulers."

Yet in your book you deplore the panegyric as much as the unillumined attack.