Sentences with word «paean»

Some of the most exultant paeans of praise were directed at lawyers by clients who got off after being ticketed with DUIs and speeding violations.

Both retrospectives of sorts (though they showed entirely different works), the exhibitions could be read as paeans to liberal internationalism, as depicted through the photographer's hedonistic wanderings.

Christiane Northrup, M.D., a well - known physician - author, tells women how to bring romance into their lives, and follows with paeans to the libido - reducing soy snacks, smoothies and chips she sells.

Under Arterton's tutelage, Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave work the tear ducts in paean to old age

Amazon's defenders often digress into paeans to online bookselling, which has indeed been a good thing for many Americans, or testimonials to Amazon customer service — and in case you're wondering, yes, I have Amazon Prime and use it a lot.

Witness this obviously out - of - touch paean from the Republican candidate who carried Ulster by 1,754 votes last year: «A county executive with backbone can make a real difference for families struggling with ever increasing property taxes and the government waste and corruption that drives them,» Astorino asserted in a prepared statement.

Based on Martin Booth's novel, «A Very Private Gentleman», it is less a action thriller than a visual paean to Clooney's ability to look so good while never being permitted to smile.

From Trump - supporting Christian leaders, we hear paeans to the natural good of national solidarity, and how President Trump promises to protect and revive the good of solidarity in the face of regnant globalization.

Once in a while a scientist or novelist would offer a lyrical paean to the «evolutionary process» as though it were a personal god.

Most painters were charged with producing paeans to the Central Committee.

Setting a dramatic 10,000 - square - foot stage in Midtown Manhattan, interior designer Andres Escobar has created an exciting two - story paean to haute cuisine and fine living at NOIR, 151 East 50th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues.

It's pitch - perfect and laceratingly funny but also a surprisingly tender, touching paean to the power of storytelling and the pains of growing up.

«There is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked,» Obama told the East Room crowd packed with leaders of American neuroscience during a 12 - minute paean to brain research (likely the most expansive yet delivered by an American president).

A bubbly, high - spirited paean to the joys of pharmaceutical phun that grooves to a throbbing beat but constantly trips over flat, prosaic dialogue and literal, lifeless sight gags.

A decidedly one - sided cinematic paean to a rare good guy among the one percent that goes down easily, making you feel better in the knowledge that someone like him exists.

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One (00:46), Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope (05:49), Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square (08:08), Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin (11:51), and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene (14:32).

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of this month's new releases, as they debate Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One, Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope, Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square, Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin, and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene.

And so it is in this poignant, poetic paean to the beauty and tribulations of married love.

A scary and stylish paean to female destructiveness, De Palma's first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split - screen effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann.

These are some of the ideas expressed in «Frank,» an off - the - wall and terrific paean to the misfits and freaks of the world, their dreams, visions and togetherness.

A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.

The hotel is a fascinating paean to Thomas Jefferson, with aesthetic references to the former president throughout, such as a replica of French artist Jean - Antoine Houdon's bust of Jefferson, depictions of Monticello, and documents signed by Jefferson.

After establishing the Ferus Gallery and promoting the local avant garde, Hopps arrived at the Pasadena Art Museum well prepared to tackle this ambitious paean to Duchamp, one that would necessitate loans from private collections and art institutions, as well as the re-fabrication of several lost works.

Scorsese's Hugo, shot in 3D, is an excited paean to film history using modern techniques.

Schumer's was just one of many paeans to the young congressman, with close to 500 hundred well - wishers cheering along inside the Memorial Hall Auditorium at the Pratt Institute, and another couple hundred watching on a projection screen in an overflow room.

Though this slick - looking paean to down - home values often undercuts its own message, Pure Country is an effective vehicle for amiable country star George Strait.

Kym needs the assurance that she's noticed, even if it means grandstanding at the rehearsal diner and turning the toasts to the bride and groom into a self - serving paean to her own dysfunction.

The name that everyone seems to be zeroing in on, however, is Hollywood's current man of the hour, Ryan Gosling: with three prominent films to go with his endless portfolio of magazine covers, style - page paeans and blogosphere valentines, many are quick to assume the Academy will naturally fall in line, despite (or, some will reason, because of) their failure to acknowledge his career - best turn in last year's «Blue Valentine.»

If everything goes according to plan, Zappos will take over the old city hall — a slightly loopy paean to 1960s Modernism with a circular courtyard and an 11 - story tower that for some reason has no windows on one side — at the end of 2013.

There was a whole paean to bridges, inspired by Lord Tweedsmuir.

Arseny finally becomes who he always was on exactly the two scores Orthodox paean requires: he is all at once both created and not.

Ultimately, these Cameron Crowe type paeans to rock (like the Pearl Jam 20) sing to gods which are silly and unworthy of worship, even if they have a lot of influence.

Gray and Goldsmith, in their magnificent paeans to rural life, impoverished yet virtuous, relate its nobility.

• José Maria de Eça de Queirós, The City and the Mountains: Perhaps not an obscure book or author at all, but generally overlooked in the Anglophone world; a wisely humorous and lovely paean to the Portuguese countryside, and the final great work of a majestically talented novelist.

His books are virtual paeans of praise to Athena.

Such is the nature of the Song of Songs - a beautiful, extended paean to human love.

Henri Bergson in his lyric paean, Elan Vital, said that the universe is a machine for making gods.

Is the Twilight series a faith - based paean to chastity?

They have the rhythm of plainchant, of paeans lifted up to Santa Claus.

Neither Goldsmith's weird workshop nor Rex's rhetoric qualify as humane study because neither project believes in such a thing: «Wasting Time on the Internet» is a theoretical paean to artlessness, and Animal Rhetorics calls unequivocally for the end of human distinctiveness.

Pi's repeated all - inclusive paeans to his private trinity of faiths detract from an otherwise enjoyable tale, which Martel achieves when he forgets about religion and concentrates on telling his young hero's adventures.

You wouldn't write a sad paean to Upton if the Padres were without him, so they don't see what the hubbub is.

He wound up performing an acoustic rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd's melodic Dixie paean, All I Can Do Is Write about It, with harmonica help from Jimmie Bones (the keyboardist from the Twisted Brown Trucker Band).

Her frustration with mainstream parenting magazines and their sugar - coated paean to motherhood led her and her co-editor, Stephanie Wilkinson, to create Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers.

When assessing Michael Gove's outer demeanour, few would liken him to Gordon Gekko, infamous villain of 1980s paean to greed Wall Street.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Adorned in mosaics, carved marble, paintings, and gilt, the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is a Beaux - Arts paean to learning.

The community is proud of its newfound autonomy, but Winter cautions that science, not vague paeans to past practices, will determine whether the new fishing rules are successful.

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.