The speech had a very eulogistic tone as it praised the heroes. From LearnThat.org.
Even when descriptive or eulogistic, it is a direct address. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
Allan Cunningham wrote a very eulogistic metrical dedication. From Wordnik.com. [Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913] Reference
This gallant defence called forth a most eulogistic order from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
A longer eulogistic passage will sum up his achievement as a whole. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Mandapala then each devotedly addressed an eulogistic hymn to Agni. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
He opens this powerful, highly important work with a eulogistic poem. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Normatively it has been used in both a eulogistic and pejorative sense. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
All his remembrances of the old squire were eulogistic and affectionate. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
Now to which of these Ricardi does the eulogistic language of Gilbert refer?. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference
Her eulogistic biographer calls these pieces "Real pearls among piano works.". From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
But time pressed; the Mayor brought his remarks, affectionately eulogistic of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
This is not the case with any other eulogistic poems referring to Jonson's dramas. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Coverage and criticism of the exhibit has understandably taken on a eulogistic tone. From Wordnik.com. [MOCA's Dennis Hopper Double Standard Exhibit Opening] Reference
They are of course merely non-critical, eulogistic accounts of the artist and his work. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
The press has voiced the sentiment of the nation in the full and eulogistic notices of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 4, April, 1895] Reference
His Lordship also spoke in the most eulogistic terms of Robert, of whom Mary might well be proud. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
The officers spent a short time at the concert, during which the usual eulogistic speeches were made. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
Faithful to rigid justice while reproducing the warmly eulogistic judgments which have been passed on. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
He would then be respected by all, and would deserve the most eulogistic epitaph when he came to die. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
He is wrong in his estimate of Swift, and too eulogistic of Addison; but he is thoroughly English in both. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Yet that saying, eulogistic as it is, is far from expressing all the vast powers and acquirements of Lewis. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Jupiter among the rest, and wafted his name in eulogistic strains through every reading-room in the nation. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
A eulogistic quatrain is signed Nature quite, which, it is generally agreed, is an anagram of Jean Turquet. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Swiveller to pledge him in various toasts derisive of Cheggs, and eulogistic of the happiness of single men. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
It was sufficient to name Kossuth to bring fire to the old man's eye and eulogistic volubility to his tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
Bargeton the benefit of the rest of the story, argument, or what not, sure beforehand of his eulogistic smile. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
"And who did more than they to save the city?" it asks in the midst of a highly eulogistic review of the battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Falkland's participation in 'the Northern Expedition against the Scots', 1639, was the subject of a eulogistic poem by. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
And so it is that this derived use of our eulogistic and disparaging terms plays a larger part than its primary application. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
It is worth noting that the adjective “creative” became a eulogistic term, entailing novelty and above all individuality. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
This ideal is in need of justification to the has a eulogistic connotation in our ears; but to rely upon that is to beg the question. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Excellent, -- Excellent, -- were the delightful words everywhere bruited about, coupled with eulogistic hymns about those famous men. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Messrs. Forbes, Morgan, Trotter, Lewis, Williams and others eulogistic of the life and services of the professor in behalf of his race. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
There is much of the eulogistic fervour of George Robins, combined with the rich poetic feeling of Mechi, running throughout the oration. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
Though I never knew what they were (being in Welsh), further than that they were highly eulogistic of the lineage of Morgan ap – Kerrig. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
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