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Sentence Examples
| This encomium of praise for the liberating Romans was soon replaced by a rather different view in mainstream Judean opinion. |
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| Like all sites conceived as digital brochures, it has far too much text which includes an overly lavish encomium by a Sunday newspaper scribe. |
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| All these premises represent an inversion of the traditional modes of absolutist encomium. |
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| And yet, it also reminds us, by an act of allusive metalepsis, just how distant and untenable that kind of encomium has become. |
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| He then concludes with an encomium to expelled intestinal gas. |
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| First, I should like to endorse in the most glowing terms possible the encomium that he delivered to my colleague, Commissioner Lamy, for the way he conducted these negotiations. |
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| They say that he was blinded for writing abuse of Helen and recovered his sight after writing an encomium of Helen, the Palinode, as the result of a dream. |
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| The proem begins in a manner unremarkable enough for an encomium with a strong recommendation of Homer's excellence from the Presocratic philosopher Democritus. |
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| The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg and the Encomium Emmae report Cnut's mother as having been a daughter of Mieszko I of Poland. |
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| Contemporary works such as the Chronicon and the Encomium Emmae, do not mention this. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| They need no encomium of mine, but I am prepared to stand by them to the last ditch. |
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| One knows not which to admire most, the beauty of the poetry or the justice of the encomium. |
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| I can not pass this Godly man by without an encomium to his memory. |
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| The country knows, by this time, that we cannot repeat the encomium. |
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| An apple so well known, as to require neither description nor encomium. |
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| This part of the existing hymn ends with an encomium of the Delian festival of Apollo and of the Delian choirs. |
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| And applying his black beard to the pitcher, he took a draught much more moderate in quantity than his encomium seemed to warrant. |
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| The security is insufficient, and the encomium belongs to Constantinople. |
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| To Sir Felix an encomium from a fair lady was ever irresistible. |
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| Trent was pronouncing an encomium upon his wife, and they were both wondering by what enchantment she had been brought to marry such a misshapen wretch as he. |
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