Sentence examples for panegyric from inspiring English sources
The word "panegyric" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a formal expression of praise, typically one that is high-flowing or excessive. For example, "The politician's speech was a lengthy panegyric, filled with flattering compliments and extravagant descriptions of the country's progress."
noun
A formal speech or opus publicly praising someone or something.
The centenary celebrations will probably play down the conjugal row until June 29, when the pres ident and poets will join in a panegyric to Saint-Exupéry.
We are ready to return to the isolationism of the 1930s and one can only hope that other countries make a better job of it than they did back then.Scott PlouseMedford, OregonSIR – I struggled to fathom the point of your panegyric to America.
Though warts-and-all, it does not linger or moralise over the blemishes; laudatory, it does not veer towards panegyric, even as it impresses with Mr Leader's forensic readings.Sometimes, however, by enumerating Bellow's many "mimetic pleasures", Mr Leader unwittingly slows down his narrative.
Ḥāfeẓ also reduced the panegyric element of his poems to a mere one or two lines, leaving the remainder of the poem for his ideas.
Of several poems dealing with English history and preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the most notable is "The Battle of Brunanburh," a panegyric on the occasion of King Athelstan's victory over a coalition of Norsemen and Scots in 937.
The prominent masters of the panegyric qaṣīdeh were Muʿizzī and Anvarī, who both flourished in the first half of the 12th century.
But Lord Mandelson whose 14-year estrangement from Mr Brown ended only when he was astonishingly brought back into the cabinet last year is too canny an operator to have believed that such panegyrics alone would wash.
His work is notably devoid of panegyrics.
A century after the heyday of Arabic in the Deccan, Āzād Bilgrami (died 1786) composed numerous poetical and biographical works in Persian, but his chief fame was as the "Ḥassān of Hind," since he, like the Prophet Muhammad's protégé Ḥassān ibn Thābit, wrote some powerful Arabic panegyrics in honour of the Prophet.
Anvarī (died c. 1189), whose patrons were the Seljuqs, is considered the most-accomplished writer of panegyrics in the Persian tongue.
The most famous ancient Greek panegyrics to survive intact are the Panegyricus (c. 380 bc) and the Panathenaicus (c. 340 bc), both by Isocrates.
