Sentence examples for paean by from inspiring English sources

GIRLS: A Paean, by Nic Kelman.

Foulness, for the most part, wins the day, and thus the beautiful paean, by Duncan and Banquo, to the home of the Macbeths — "a pleasant seat," where "the air is delicate" — is expunged.

Your boiled egg's stone cold!" Billy Liar: 50 Years On (Radio 4) was a fan's paean, by Blake Morrison, to Keith Waterhouse's novel, and made joyful use of clips from the film it inspired.

Morley ends his moving paean by imagining Bowie, close to the end of his life, crouching in a cupboard as he films the video for his final single, Lazarus, in which – it became clear – he told us he was dying.

And when life in one place becomes too dull or complicated, simply "sail away," to quote the paean by Coward (an idol of Mr. Ross) to the therapeutic benefits of travel.

To the Editor: Despite the paean by Elaine Sciolino about the attractions of Paris in "What's Doing in Paris," (Oct . 10, for many tourists and prospective tourists these are outweighed by the arrogance of its people and the policies of the French government.

From the 5th century bc there survive fragments of paeans by Pindar (who was especially fond of the Pythian Apollo of Delphi), Bacchylides, and the tragic playwright Sophocles, who composed a paean to Coronis (the mortal mother of Asclepius), who was killed by Apollo or his twin, Artemis, for being unfaithful.

But the strangest news I've had of San Francisco through Surfer — to which I still subscribe — was a paean to Peewee, by Mark.

In January 1965, with Mariner 4 en route to Mars, Lyndon Johnson haltingly read aloud this lyrical paean, probably written by Richard Goodwin, LBJ's leading spook: "Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars.

Its only inviolate god is the human imagination; it's a paean to flight by a boy who never left the ground, except, perhaps, where it counts most: in his mind.

Across the steel exterior, multicolored window blinds feature passages-in several languages-from "Liberté," a Whitman-esque paean to freedom by French surrealist Paul Eluard.