The word "eulogy" is correct and usable in written English.
A eulogy is a speech or written tribute delivering praise for a deceased person. You can use it when writing about a funeral or commemorating the life of someone who has passed away. Example: The minister delivered a beautiful eulogy celebrating the life of the late Mrs. Smith.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell's primary victory on Tuesday night in Kentucky will undoubtedly tempt many a pundit to write the Tea Party's eulogy.
For the scene, I had to pick up a knife off the table, clink it against a wine glass to attract the attention of my sozzled guests, rise to my feet, and launch into a drunken eulogy to the bride and groom.
Jones's latest piece (How Tracey Emin found place amongst the greats, 4 April) is an extraordinary eulogy of the latest work of Tracey Emin, with particular reference to that tired old bed.
Pearson is undoubtedly the outstanding, and now most lauded, orator of his generation of public intellectuals (witness his Whitlam eulogy and the rather bizarre rendition of it on Monday's Q&A).
The scene between him and Tormond was beautifully done, as was Tormond's eulogy: "She belongs in the North, the real North, do you understand me?" Bran's warging into Hodder makes me uncomfortable.
Related: MPs pay tribute to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons David Cameron played it fairly straight, admitting his main point of contact with Kennedy had been to share the odd fag behind the Commons' bike shed when he was a newcomer to parliament in 2003, and the first genuine sign of emotion came when Nick Clegg rose to give his eulogy.
Perhaps it is the many who share the author's admiration who merit this eulogy to the breasts.
The Bangkok Post struck a typical tone of pride and menace in its birthday eulogy for the king in December: "The Thai people's love for his majesty is so ingrained in the national psyche that to declare otherwise is unthinkable".Within palace circles, however, there is a dawning realisation that change is coming.
Delivering his eulogy on November 19th 1863, over the freshly dug graves at Gettysburg, the president began: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation".
Bill de Blasio, the mayor, has infuriated the police by supporting the protesters; at the funeral of their colleague many turned their backs on Mr de Blasio as he delivered a eulogy.
As Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank, puts it: "The city had a lot of momentum" before Mr de Blasio took office.In his eulogy for the murdered officers, Mr Bratton described them as part of "the blue thread that holds our city together when disorder might pull it apart".
