encomiums

It is interesting how applicable it is in authoritarian governments; you can't simply praise, you must give enthusiastic encomiums.

Now I'll go back to reading the mainstream media's encomiums to the Azov batallion in the Ukraine.

More significantly: our surveillance is fantastically disproportionate to the lyrical encomiums we sing to our free society and democracy and so forth.

She won't receive any encomiums or major press coverage.

I almost always dislike HN comments that find fault, but: encomiums, anomie, Antipodean, recce, &c.

If you’re just looking at the top reviews for a book it’s more questionable; they tend toward the extremes: enraptured encomiums about how beautiful and important and bold the book is, or insult-laden rants where the book is a whipping post for the reviewer to show off what a biting sense of humor they have.

Lou Reed, not noted for his gushing encomiums about fellow artists, said, “They just made the songs up, bing bing bing.

When you suck out the soul, the remaining carcass will totter on for a couple more decades, and encomiums will be written to the "well-managed" company in business magazines, but no promising undergraduates will list it as their dream job, and somehow, that's what really matters.

Encomiums: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone highly.

> Encomiums: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone highly.