(n.) Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Robert Southey thought it entirely overrated and “by no means deserving of the encomiums which are passed upon it”.
(2) Hirsi Ali, for instance, was treated to a series of encomiums and softball questions in her blizzard of US media interviews, from the New York Times to Fox News.
(3) I told him I had several other reasons for my choice, but that I would add his encomium to the list.
(4) Appearing at the London Palladium during the 80s, she reportedly delivered an encomium of Margaret Thatcher, which was roundly booed by the audience.
(5) Of all the things he said, the encomiums on decency, social justice, duty - this was the most radical.
(6) But this encomium to creative fidelity surely shows Badiou to be a man out of his time.
(7) If that wasn't enough, David had to put up with being biffed with the tainted stick of praise, in the form of an encomium from Tony Blair.
(8) The author refrained on purpose from any analysis or interpretation, glorifying encomiums or accusations, because from the scientific point of view it is more important to place on record the many names, dates and above all the architectural structures of monuments before they get fallen into oblivion.
(9) Professor Chris Sinha Norwich • Ian Jack’s review of Boris Johnson ’s encomium on Winston Churchill (13 December) refers sceptically to the Goveian view which reduces history to the achievements of individuals.
(10) Quite an encomium for a former Labour cabinet minister from a former editor of the Spectator.
(11) It's not the most glowing of encomiums, all things considered, but he seems just about satisfied with this.
(12) Orban and Trump have established a mutual-admiration society, with the American retweeting the Magyar’s encomiums.
(13) Or how about an encomium meant to express the idealized, almost religious purity of Apple products?
Oratory
Definition:
(n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
(n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
(2) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
(3) The movie sticks mostly to the facts , although a community meeting in a church, where Obama displays his rare talent for oratory, is incorporated from a later date.
(4) Choice of the Oratory was criticised because the school had opted out of local authority control; choice of St Olave's was criticised because admission was selective.
(5) The Oratory, which achieves about twice the national average for GCSE scores, did not respond to a request for comment.
(6) Former prime minister Tony Blair was also heavily criticised for sending his sons to the selective Oratory school in south London.
(7) Martin was alleged to have met at least six pupils in his rooms at the London Oratory church, to which the highly regarded school is affiliated.
(8) Ritchie began designing the bike in 1975 from his flat in South Kensington, London, which overlooked Brompton Oratory, the imposing Roman Catholic church from which he took the name.
(9) Related special report Special report: religion in the UK Related stories 5 December: Sex abuse issue haunts the Catholic church 6 November: Archbishop steps aside in paedophile scandal 5 November: Bishop ignored warnings over abuser priests 13 September: Nolan to review Catholic rules on child abuse Useful links The London Oratory school ChildLine ChildLine's child abuse factsheet Hammersmith and Fulham council
(10) Political events continue to remind us of the importance of persuasive arguments and good oratory that appeal not only to our rational side, but our emotional side too.” He also thinks the ability to see the other side is particularly important.
(11) The Conservative party today pounced gleefully on an embarrassing dilemma for Prime Minister Tony Blair as his children's school, the London Oratory, sent a letter to parents asking for money after the government scrapped its grant-maintained status.
(12) The collision of history threatens to overshadow his first visit as US president to Africa's biggest economy, although his oratory can be expected to rise to the occasion of honouring the anti-apartheid hero.
(13) With all the arrogance of 21 I replied: ‘A harmless lunatic with the gift of oratory.’ I can still hear his retort: ‘No lunatic with the gift of oratory is harmless.’” Binchy had a second encounter with Hitler in Berlin in 1930, when the Nazis were on the brink of power.
(14) The Office of the Schools Adjudicator ruled that the London Oratory school in Fulham, a state secondary, broke a section of the official admissions code for schools intended to prevent parents from obtaining places for their offspring by giving practical or financial support to schools or associated bodies like the church.
(15) In opposition, the Blairs' decision to send one of their children to London Oratory grated with the Labour party.
(16) But having won, he returned not only to the oratory but to famous lines from earlier speeches, reprising once again his 2008 slogan about "hope".
(17) He was not a dynamic leader, had no great powers of oratory, but he knew absolutely everything that was going on in school,” says Michael Allen, who taught him history and cricket.
(18) "We occasionally go to the same church in Oxford – they really think there that the BBC is run from the pews of the Oratory.
(19) This is about more than great oratory, it is about a kind of fear.
(20) Faith schools like the London Oratory, which are quickly oversubscribed, can use faith-based criteria for admission to decide who gets the places.