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(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise

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Eryximachus notes with some irony that he has read somewhere a panegyric of salt, but nothing on Eros

—p.210 by Roland Barthes
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When Brecht became a panegyrist of its harmony, his lyric voice had to swallow chalk, and it started to grate.

—p.187 Commitment (177) by Theodor W. Adorno
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Kennedy’s panegyric to marriage as a form of existential identification with another human is of little interest to the immigration agents who decide what counts as “real” marriage and which partners get to live in this country.

—p.85 Love According to the State (81) by Natasha Lennard
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the first thing I did with my money was part rebellion, part panegyric

—p.176 Inheritance (172) by Alexander Chee
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went on to write an extended panegyric, before arriving at his real political objective

—p.10 Populism without the People (5) by Marco D'Eramo
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This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.

—p.146 The Toughness Crew (145) by Anders Stephanson
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Some were panegyrics, plain and simple

—p.73 Accomplice (58) missing author
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The Communist Manifesto
by multiple authors

The Communist Manifesto
by multiple authors

The Communist Manifesto
by multiple authors


Marx and Engels left no detailed blueprint of what a socialist or communist society should look like, something that led academic Marxists to pronounce that Marx’s originality lay in his philosophy and economics. Others utilized his panegyrics celebrating the revolutionary capacities of capital to argue that the gravediggers were the capitalists themselves

—p.xxi Introduction to the Communist Manifesto (iii) by Tariq Ali
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I thought the film was a panegyric to ambition and power.

on citizen kane

—p.284 SOME OUTSIDERS (251) by François Truffaut
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Flyting stood at the polar opposite of panegyric, which is to say that it consisted of personal abuse. Freakishly well written, and fantastically hostile

—p.348 by Martin Amis
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this panegyric upon Julian written by Himerius

—p.719 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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the official reports from the show trials, the attacks on enemies, the official panegyrics to Stalin and other leaders

—p.41 Allegro moderato – Adagio: (34) by Slavoj Žižek
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which he gratified with the following panegyric

—p.9 White Indians (6) missing author
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“More Roman than any Englishman had ever been,” went one panegyric from the 1920s

—p.27 Renewed Labour (24) by Barnaby Raine
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