Sentence examples for paean on from inspiring English sources
Phaedrus has just heard Lysias deliver the most seductive speech a lad could hear: a gaudily counter-intuitive paean on the rectitude of granting one's sexual favors not to someone who loves you but rather to someone who does not.
Rush Limbaugh delivered a 20-minute paean on the radio, begging him to run for president.
West sampled "Diamonds Are Forever," Bassey's other great Bond paean, on his Grammy-winning "Diamonds From Sierra Leone".
One example was "Acuff-Rose", a paean on the music publishers of Acuff-Rose Music.
Perhaps, in fact, he does unconsciously realise it or he wouldn't feel obliged to incorporate an incongruent, tacked-on paean to psychoanalysis at the end.
It seems odd for the government to press the delete key on a paean of praise to the prime minister.
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has a paean to him on its Web site.
They also perform works by Bach and Couperin, and a fifteenth-century paean to smoking, on April 24 at the Morgan Library, perhaps Manhattan's closest approximation to the nymphs' Rhineland court.
He also has a number of wonderful poems which do what they say on the tin: "Today I Met David Kelly, Actor, in the Street"; "To Dympna Who Taught Me Online Banking"; or, in a mischievous paean to chicklit, "On Glimpsing a Woman in Hodges Figgis Bookshop in Dublin".
This is a paean to Manhattan, on an Arrington dare – Because, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!
1. Time to Pretend, MGMT 'This is our decision, to live fast and die young/We've got the vision, now let's have some fun,' sang Andrew VanWyngarden with dreamy insouciance on this satire on – or paean to? – rock's most shameful excesses.
