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a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory

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a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past

—p.244 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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these novels' lofty, encomiastic view of pure math

—p.213 Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama (209) by David Foster Wallace
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9 years, 3 months ago

much of that criticism consisting in apologiae, encomiums

—p.245 The Best of the Prose Poem (243) by David Foster Wallace
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9 years, 3 months ago


The prospect of living with her inspires pages of encomia on solitude

about Kafka's attitude towards his betrothed

—p.63 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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9 years, 4 months ago


PG's one-line encomium of RTM was as absolute as it was brief

—p.61 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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9 years, 5 months ago


encomia to industrialists and contempt for the canaille were less in demand

—p.173 Literature Without Literature (171) missing author
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What, beyond general encomiums

—p.26 Society Must Be Dismantled (23) by Wendy Brown
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Think of the encomia of European intellectuals like Sartre and Beauvoir to the great American writers who didn’t teach, didn’t go to school, but worked as truck drivers, bartenders, nightwatchmen, stevedores, anything but intellectuals

—p.263 Dirty Little Secret (263) by Fredric Jameson
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4 years, 8 months ago


an authority for Winkler’s own encomium to those very conceptions

—p.131 Metaphysicking the West (125) by Dylan Riley
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7 years, 9 months ago


Nothing so gauche as an explicit defence of the Grandma Millie fantasy; only an encomium to the profits and practices of which it was exuberant expression.

—p.40 On Social Sadism (17) by China Miéville
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4 years, 10 months ago


there is the encomium to Iranian women for their buried labors

—p.78 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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festooned with American flags and encomiums to Abraham Lincoln

I think it should be encomia but maybe that's just a colloquial version?

—p.120 Our Favorite Dupe (117) by Seth Ackerman
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8 years, 7 months ago


the object of these encomia

—p.147 Kenji Mizoguchi (147) by Phillip Lopate
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1 year, 1 month ago

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.

lol

—p.224 The Passion of Pauline Kael (219) by Phillip Lopate
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1 year, 1 month ago


Encomia to these neoliberalizing achievements were the stuff of virtually all Argentina coverage in the English-language business press of the ’90s.

—p.57 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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7 years, 5 months ago


In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.

—p.25 Goodbye, Cold War (20) by Aziz Rana
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