Paeans

Word PAEANS
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What do we mean by paeans?

A chant or song, especially a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance or victory, to Apollo or sometimes another god or goddess; hence any song sung to solicit victory in battle.

(by extension) Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.

(by extension) An enthusiastic expression of praise.

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The word "paeans" in example sentences

One sort consisted of prayers to the Gods, which were called hymns; and there was another and opposite sort called lamentations, and another termed paeans, and another, celebrating the birth of Dionysus, called, I believe, ❋ Unknown (2006)

They also do astoundingly appropriate covers of "Whole Lot of Love" and "Frankenstein," but the bulk of their catalog is slightly screwy originals such as paeans to Mothra and mirrored lawn gazing balls. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If Arsenal fans want to enjoy one sided paeans on their players here then I suggest they are on the wrong site. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The paeans served Blatter well and he was carried back into office, 139 votes to Hayatou's 56. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The latest Republican presidential debate, being held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, will undoubtedly feature endless paeans from the candidates to our nation’s 40th President. ❋ Frank Sharry (2011)

Mr. Dial's worn, multivalent components are equally important as formal elements and potent metaphors, embodying variously, depending on how they are deployed, such notions as trapped figures, allusions to quilt-making, homages to African-Americans, references to despoiled nature, paeans to survival and embodiments of the passage of time, among many other subtle ideas. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

Oh, and another typically conservative tactic is to co-opt the most successful movies as paeans to conservative cultural/political concepts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Freddy published (well, Xeroxed and handed out) a newsletter several times a year, containing paeans to the Yankees, poems, philosophy, and even, if I remember correctly, a recipe or two. ❋ Tony Sachs (2010)

You have only to read the early American and British paeans to the successes of fascism in forcefully rebuilding and lifting Italy and Germany out of the Depression to realize how broadly seductive were the themes of a benevolent dictatorship of the intellectual and cultural elite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For their part, Tea Party activists brush off these pesky facts with nostalgic paeans about the Constitution and indignant bromides against partisanship. ❋ David Sirota (2010)

Nightly television newscasts continue to broadcast clumsy government propaganda, including long paeans to the country's new parliament, with sweeping shots of somber lawmakers in white robes and yellow hats, while a speaker manages the elaborate affair from a golden chair. ❋ Unknown (2011)

JH: Still, while the work shares a similar sensibility, there's often a painterly, somber quality to your portraits the boys never smile, for example that recalls old masters, and distinguishes itself from Nan's technicolor paeans to abject glamour through emotional restraint and sexual sublimation, wouldn't you agree? ❋ Jane Harris (2011)

And Francois Godement , a French specialist in Asia, describes China as split between competing versions of its own model: the more Western-style move up the technological value chain, which he calls the Guangdong model after the prosperous coastal region, and the Chongqing experiment in the center of China, which is marked by heavy state subsidies and paeans to Chairman Mao. ❋ David Wessel (2012)

The sunshine strategy isn't yielding the critical paeans of "Mad Men" and its ilk, but it's working. ❋ Amy Chozick (2011)

The last 20 years of hip-hop have seen no shortage of paeans to Brian DePalma's 1983 drug-dealer film "Scarface," both visually and lyrically. ❋ Andy Beta (2011)

Apparently they had some second thoughts about these paeans to tyranny because a week before the Bush administration left office, one of the lawyers made an attempt to say "never mind" and repudiate them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Slater was the gateway drug—"Appetite," "Diaries" and, most recently, his gorgeous paeans to vegetables and fruits, "Tender" volumes 1 and 2. ❋ Katherine Wheelock (2011)

Chris Christie announced Tuesday that he was opting out of the Republican presidential-nominating race once and for all, he held a statehouse news conference, giving national television viewers a sweeping look of the man who won't be competing, complete with jokes about his weight, playful banter with the press corps and paeans to his own achievements in fixing what he called his "messed up" home state. ❋ Lisa Fleisher (2011)

Exit pursued by paeans from Mark Thompson to his "brilliance" and Caroline Thomson, chief operating officer, calling him "truly transformative and inspirational", not to mention " strategic, proactive". ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is the antithesis of rational objectivity, something that no amount of fancy verbiage from Marx or Chomsky or Himmler or Plato or Rousseau can disguise in their respective paeans to force and unity over intellect and evolution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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