When Brecht became a panegyrist of its harmony, his lyric voice had to swallow chalk, and it started to grate.

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.

the first thing I did with my money was part rebellion, part panegyric

which he gratified with the following panegyric

“More Roman than any Englishman had ever been,” went one panegyric from the 1920s

This is the moment when panegyrics to ‘American empire’ were much in vogue.

went on to write an extended panegyric, before arriving at his real political objective

Some were panegyrics, plain and simple

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

the official reports from the show trials, the attacks on enemies, the official panegyrics to Stalin and other leaders

a panegyric elegy