Dantiscus wrote, in Latin, incidental verse, love poetry, and panegyrics (formal speeches of praise).
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, one of a handful of Vatican officials who still see the pope regularly, delivered a formal speech in praise of him, John Paul's head hung lower than usual and his eyes narrowed.
The trend is accelerating as the big agencies become bigger and some senior executives like Ms. Spivak and Mr. Sklaver strike out for the less formal environments they praise as less bureaucratic.
In "Leni Riefenstahl" Mr. Trimborn points out that critical praise for the formal qualities of this filmmaker's work, along with growing historical distance from the Third Reich and respect for her advanced age, led "to an increasingly unbiased acceptance of Riefenstahl" on her own terms in the last years of her life.
Before we met, I had written a review of Nassar's work in which I put forth this interpretation; he sent me a kind, slightly formal e-mail praising the "suitability of the statements".
It was "elegant and formal and was praised by everyone but the waitresses," wrote Colter's biographer Virginia Grattan.
As a poet, Professor Honig was praised for formal precision, masterly tonal control and sometimes biting wit.
A writer who took a somewhat different path was Pentti Holappa, a political columnist and poet, praised for the formal mastery of his diction.
Upon his formal departure, Bilić was also praised for his long-standing service to the national side.
By contrast, Plato earns praise for grasping the formal cause of life; unfortunately, he then proceeds to neglect the material cause, and comes to believe that the soul can exist without its material basis.
