encomium
(en)
a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
Kael's rave of The Godfather, Part II is finally a dull pileup of encomiums; by the time she places Coppola alongside Tolstoy, it's enough already.
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