Critics have extolled such football books as the novels "A Fan's Notes," by Frederick Exley, and "End Zone," by Don DeLillo, the short story "The 80-Yard Run," by Irwin Shaw, and H. G. Bissinger's nonfiction narrative, "Friday Night Lights". Former players like Pat Toomay and Peter Gent have produced highly regarded fiction.
Obama promised more than a year ago to host such a gathering, one of several at which he has extolled the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and lamented the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international tests.
Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, has extolled the virtues of its product.
Trump has extolled oil and gas exploration as part of an energy-dominance agenda.
Mr. Levin has extolled Mr. Olechowski's 30 years of work with Polish immigrants, including those being squeezed out by gentrification.
For years, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has extolled the virtue of transparency, and he built Facebook accordingly.
Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde has extolled the qualities of captain Ryan Jones ahead of the Six Nations clash in Scotland.
But he has extolled high-speed rail.
Gwyneth Paltrow is a follower and Donna Karen has extolled the benefits.
Since it won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, critics have extolled its virtues, giving it such exalted titles as "the new King Kong of crime movies". Faced with writing this review, and knowing Pulp Fiction to be by far the most-critically hyped movie in recent memory, the last thing I wanted to do was be the conformist and fall into step with every other review I had read.
