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

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

Of all the literary genres, panegyric is easily the dullest. Yet I must now praise the Hitch.

The leading article was entitled “Modern Painting”: a dithyrambic panegyric of four or five young painters

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

I thought the film was a panegyric to ambition and power.

Flyting stood at the polar opposite of panegyric, which is to say that it consisted of personal abuse. Freakishly well written, and fantastically hostile

this panegyric upon Julian written by Himerius

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

a panegyric elegy

which he gratified with the following panegyric

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