How to Use encomium in a Sentence

encomium

noun
  • But agreeing to write a Trump encomium for Time is a whole other thing.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The telegraph played a role in Chicago’s early development, notably the year before Medill’s encomium to Morse.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Certainly there was no evidence in its encomium to Koch.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Such encomiums haven’t helped her popularity in her home state, though.
    oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
  • Advertisement Many Dutch paintings are encomia to cities, particularly Delft, where so many of the greatest artists lived and worked.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
  • This encomium seems a little like awarding the season’s M.V.P. during spring training, simply because an intrepid player announces his plan to bat .400.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The encomiums his cheerleaders offer him, a veteran professional politician in a baggy suit, are as extreme as his ideas.
    The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • This encomium was not one that Frankfurter received only posthumously.
    Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In a fitting tribute, the shuffle of iconic characters that opens every Marvel movie here is composed entirely of images of Boseman, a moving encomium to a gifted and charismatic actor who left the stage much too soon.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
  • More problematic are the amateurish musical choices and the breathless encomiums on the soundtrack.
    Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Colleges and universities offer encomiums to free speech and inquiry, which the First Amendment protects, at least in theory, at public institutions.
    Peter Berkowitz, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Comey’s congressional testimony, in 2007, about the confrontation raised his public profile, earning him encomiums from both parties.
    Peter Elkind, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
  • Ralph Lauren is admired throughout the fashion industry as the quintessential American designer, and singer-songwriter John Legend’s success is evident from countless encomiums and a shelf full of awards.
    Kristina O’Neill, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • Here’s a second reason for caution: Despite heady media claims that pizza is now being made by artificial intelligence (and a similar suggestion from the company itself), Picnic’s device doesn’t quite earn that encomium.
    Stephen L. Carterbloomberg, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Clinton’s encomium ignored his mentor’s segregationism.
    Deroy Murdock, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017

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