(a.) Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.
Example Sentences:
(1) A laudatory review was lost in one of the regular printers' strikes of the time: it might, he felt, have swung things his way.
(2) Artist Karen Green's meditation on grief following the suicide of her husband, the author David Foster Wallace , is drawing laudatory reviews in America, where it has been described as "an astonishment" and an "instant classic".
(3) But while it seems the sentiments are laudatory, the tune is still funereal.
(4) If that frustrates HS2's backers, they ought to know that Shaw was rooting for high-speed rail before HS1 was even built, filming a laudatory video at her school when construction of the Channel tunnel was set in motion by a treaty signed in nearby Canterbury.
(5) The physician who can accept the patient's judgment and participation and who can help the patient find positive meaning in what can be a personally and socially devastating disease experience has enacted a highly laudatory ethical standard of patient care.
(6) As reported in the literature, results of remedial operations have ranged from encouraging to excellent, and evaluations have been uniformly laudatory.
(7) This report includes laudatory statements by Prof. Antoine, Prof. Gitsch and Prof. Kärcher on the 25th anniversary of the department.
(8) The others were shown either a brief laudatory or derogatory comment on the World Cup 0, 3, or 6 h after having read the text.
(9) Indeed, his air assault on Syria, in response to a gruesome chemical weapons attack, won him the most laudatory press coverage of his presidency (in some quarters, it sparked an ongoing shift to a more respectful tone).
(10) In it, Yee offered a withering assessment of the independent city-state’s founding father, which was in stark contrast to the laudatory tributes pouring forth from elsewhere.
(11) Hence, in return for laudatory press coverage of her charitable work, and near sycophantic treatment of her yet-to-be-employed son, she would have had to agree to revisit her legendary scandal.
(12) The study reported by the author is based upon a three-factor concept of education, which comprises conflictive, laudatory, and fundamental situations.
(13) Consequently, parents of schizophrenic juveniles with either favorable or unfavorable prognoses will show different reactions in conflictive, laudatory, fundamental, and abnormal situations.