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Examples of paean
paean
Shakhnazarov creates a nostalgic paean to Soviet life during the Brezhnev 1970s.
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That story is a lovely paean to crazy old ladies and their book clubs everywhere.
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What began as a paean to the past wound up looking like it had bolts in its neck.
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Kitchen No. 1 is geometric and blindingly yellow, a paean to plastic modernity.
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Li's case would have been helped had he received a less frothy and dripping paean.
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The piece becomes a paean to technology rather than a refutation of its power.
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So what could be more natural than a celluloid paean of praise to automobiles?
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A few months ago, Vanity Fair published a paean to the same former Yukos boss.
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The film is also a paean to the Mission, lowrider culture and the Bratts'past.
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- Encomium: a formal expression of praise
- (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
- A paean (as in "European") is a song or lyric poem expressing triumph or thanksgiving. In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice (monody). ...
- Alternative spelling of paean
- Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph; An enthusiastic expression of praise
- (paeans) celebrating the victory filled the air.
- Among the earliest Greeks, the word paean signifies "a dance and hymn with a specific rhythm which is endued with an absolving in healing power" (Burkett 44). In later usage, any song of praise to a deity is called a paean.
- A ritual exclamation and name for the song addressed to gods of healing (originally Paean, later Apollo and Asclepius). Paeans were sung at religious festivals, during illness or plague, before a military action, after libations, and on public occasions like the ratification of peace.
- Paquita, Paquita (pas de deux), The Parliament of the Birds, Pas de Deux (Anatole Oboukhoff), Pas de Deux Holberg, Pas de Deux Imperiale (from Anastasia, Act II), Pas de "Duke", Pas de Quatre, Pas d'Esclave (from Le Corsaire), Pas des Deesses, Pas de Trois (Valentina Pereyslavec), Pas et Lignes, ...
