Sentences with word «encomium»

, produced by Kristopher E. Wynne at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, in which the above - the - line talent showers encomiums on casting director Mary Vernieu, costume designer Mark bridges, and, of course, each other.

The speeches gush with encomiums for the school that you (i.e. me) have been criticizing for years.

Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola shower encomium on the former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Adebisi Akande, by describing him as the pillar upholding the country as the statement clocks 78.

Petroleum products supply to the Northern part of the country received a boost yesterday as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, re-commissioned its Kano Depot, even amidst encomiums poured on the Corporation for reviving the facility.

My first exposure to serious writing about cars was Ken Purdy's True magazine encomium to Ettore Bugatti, more than sixty years ago.

Effusive encomiums pervaded the air at the maiden Memorial Lecture held in honour of the Late Prof. Abubakar Momoh, the pioneer Director General (DG) of the Electoral Institute (TEI) on Monday in Abuja, as colleagues, friends, admirers and family members gathered to reminisce about his contributions to scholarship, democracy and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

By Nathaniel Gana and Dominic James 31st January, 2018 Effusive encomiums pervaded the air at the maiden Memorial Lecture held in honour of the Late Prof. -LSB-...]

And in the final, and very beautiful (so beautiful it bears quoting), encomium of the Blessed Virgin the parable of the sower is applied to Our Lady:

The two men combined their genius on a fragrant encomium to the anus as cynosure of beauty and sexual pleasure.

There, Henderson and Brock exchanged encomiums and Henderson accepted handshakes from various Brewers on the field, including Medich and Simmons.

The Bulls for whom he scratched and battled for 10 of his 11 NBA seasons — as a reliable scoring guard (14.0 points per game), an in - your - jock stopper (four berths on the NBA all - defensive first team) and a willing and able pugilist (he squared off against Wilt Chamberlain)-- were recognized as the Best Team Never to Win It All, the backhanded encomium now affixed to the Jazz.

Given who he was in his remarkable life time, those who met and knew him have been pouring deserved encomiums on this man, many agree was the best both to, his commitment to work and his relationship with colleagues, and those fortunate enough to have known him.

Gareth may be a mensch to the press office, but you're a mensch and a kind soul for writing this lovely encomium about him.

True, many MPs pump the party line out twenty times a day on social media; they swear undying loyalty to their leader, they post references to their own speeches, they condemn everything their opponents ever think or say and retweet their colleagues» sycophantic encomiums.

While pundits and regulators issue encomiums to safety, the most noticeable shifts in the «post BP» oil industry are a fat discount on rental rates for offshore platforms no longer needed in the Gulf and the exodus of idled rigs heading to other waters.

Goya is a longstanding favorite (his superb biography of the artist was recently issued in paperback), and he has published persuasive encomiums to contemporaries including Lucian Freud, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert Crumb.

It's the most popular symphony of all time, Nicholas Logsdail claimed in remarks that preceded impromptu encomiums from the artists, initiated by performance queen Marina Abramović, with Liu Xiaodong, Anish Kapoor, Rodney Graham, and twenty others following close behind.

There's been no shortage of recent exhibitions dedicated to the Dutchman — Larry Gagosian mounted a handsome encomium a few years back — and you'd think the hometown crowd would have had its fill of New York School triumphalism and its usual suspects.

But even a simple encomium to this news and popular culture magazine would be too... earnest, perhaps, for a Friday fillip.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Senate confirmation hearing in January was thick with encomiums.

It contains her work from 1969 on, and encomiums from the likes of Richard Hell («She is a filthy sensualist, just like God»); and it marks a career pocked by notoriety and periods of paralysis — elevated, now, in her 60s, by sudden fame.

It emphasized the need for the club to carry an identity that reflect the new ownership status, which is the generality of the state, and showered encomiums on the state government of Osun for deeming it fit to effect the change.

Pouring encomiums on the State Government for taking the bold move, Chukwueke, who served as Special Assistant on Women Ethnic Group Mobilisation / Empowerment to former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola said not only Igbo but traders from other ethnic groups were also affected in the exercise, which according to her «was carried out in good faith and in accordance with the rule of law».

When McDonald died on Tuesday afternoon, encomiums poured in, from Mayor Bill de Blasio to NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill, who called McDonald a «source of inspiration and incredible hope to people the world over.»

There's a significant yuck factor to Marston's encomiums to the finer sex.

Falstaff's catechism on honor and his encomium on sack (sherry) are no longer directed solely to playgoers, but are rather warnings or celebrations he shares with his companion, the prodigal prince, Hal (Keith Baxter).

With this encomium to Rick's virtue that seem like a campaign elegy, I don't mean to write off his chances for ultimately winning the nomination as the primary season goes on (though I think the chances are doubtful at best).

Plaudits and encomiums to all who do not ignore God's continuing instruction and endure to the end, including suffering with Christ.

Despite his encomium upon «the critical movement in philosophy» already quoted, Polanyi clearly thinks it is now a monster.

Clark no doubt surprised his viewers by then veering off in a different direction, with an encomium to a chivalric figure of a quite different sort, the spiritual knight errant who, by the time of his death, had captured the imagination of much of Europe: St. Francis of Assisi.

Mack shows how Paul was able to use the judicial argument for his apostleship in I Corinthians 9 to deliver an encomium, an epideictic speech of praise.

The encomium, and that is what it is, begins with this: «Don Quixote himself might have despaired at the prospect of leading America's Communist Party during the Cold War, but not the indefatigable Gus Hall.

• A reader who apparently feels some sort of moral obligation to keep on reading, despite all, the New Yorker sends us a letter received from an Andrew Solomon who wrote in that magazine an encomium to doctor - assisted suicide and related escapes from the curse of life.

Of course, such an encomium implies that the theist (for whom such praise is alone meaningful) finds the work of Plato or Aristotle more amenable to his life of belief than the alternative on offer in Greek and Roman antiquity.

Papa Bear sits back for the moment, spent from delivering this encomium for his game, his love.

And of course, there were the encomiums from officials to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration for the investments in the region.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has showered encomium on his wife, Oludolapo Osinbajo on her birthday via his Twitter handle.

The encomium from Sunder Katwala, of the Fabian Society for the Alternative Vote in the place of first - past - the post (FPTP) elections for the House of Commons is yet another example, first, of a major party's search to consolidate its electoral position, and secondly, of the weakness of campaigning bodies to oblige the parties to open up an honest debate about the alternatives to FPTP.

A mammoth crowd of fans, who had waited patiently to shower him with encomium, sang and danced at the Arrival Wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

I will tarnish this encomium by not claiming that it was brave.

Governor Aregbesola who was accompanied by members of the State Executive Council, showered encomiums on the late General for playing a crucial role towards the sustainability of western Nigeria.

The real point of Hyman's encomium is to set up an unfavourable contrast between what Labour was 20 years ago, and what Labour is now.

What I found irritating is that «independent» became an encomium.

In particular, the final pursuit scene in Vegas is an encomium to excess, perhaps finally stealing The Blues Brothers» long - held crown for vehicular mayhem.

At its best, it serves as a fitting, even moving, encomium to the vision and work of the civically minded social entrepreneurs who've brought it to life.