He had nothing but laudatory things to say about the firefighter who rescued him from the cliff. From LearnThat.org.
A laudatory remark. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Last month, he published what could reasonably be described as a laudatory piece on the life and character of one Tony Abbott in. From Wordnik.com. [Larvatus Prodeo] Reference
Senate, she didn't get the kind of laudatory acclaim that Obama is getting on the campaign trail. From Wordnik.com. [Election 2008:Symbols vs. Style Part 1] Reference
Then they segue to an article from yesterday's Globe and Mail which the Telly dismisses as being "laudatory" of the oil giant, Exxon. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Barzini's analysis is both laudatory and cautionary. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRE- AND POST-BUSH DIVIDE] Reference
His commentary was published with a laudatory preface by the great. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
There's been nothing but this laudatory reporting about his style. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2002] Reference
Moorcroft, Vigne, and others swelled the laudatory chorus until Forster. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Houses were illuminated and pictures and laudatory poems offered for sale. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
Let chanters and panegyrists praise thee with innumerable laudatory hymns. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The theatre looks to the newspaper for impartial criticisms and laudatory notices. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
He said a great deal about me, to my disgust, though it was in very laudatory terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
KING: So you were able to get his reaction to the laudatory comments of the president. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2004] Reference
All the houses were ornamented with flags, festoons, busts, and laudatory inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
KING: And Darren, a lot of the critics have said it's basically laudatory about Princess Di. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2003] Reference
We old men are garrulous, and rather laudatory of the past than enthusiastic about the present. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
It is obvious to anyone reading a catalogue that the essays in it will be positive, even laudatory. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Grant: Should Artists Publish Their Own Catalogues?] Reference
Rakshasas, with the great snakes and saints, glorified the mighty Indra with various laudatory hymns. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
I was surprised how laudatory the coverage was, with very few questions asked about the timing of it, for example. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2006] Reference
The service consists of the presentation of offerings and of the recital of various invocations, chiefly laudatory. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Japan] Reference
On the day after the Southern Weekend editorial, the conservative Legal Daily detailed the draft law in laudatory terms. From Wordnik.com. [The New Family Values] Reference
And the laudatory awards and other arbitrary bric-a-brac are seen as the only way by which someone can be distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
He is always and everywhere American, and the last chapter is at once wisely critical and soundly laudatory of our country. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Is he himself or his staff sensitive to any, for example, thing that you might write or say about him that is not laudatory?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2006] Reference
He closed with laudatory remarks concerning the Commission, and the wisdom and thoroughness which had characterized its work. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
And he loved to transcribe the laudatory notes in which dignitaries acknowledged presentation copies of his three-penny tracts. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
What peace can my heart know if I behold thee uttering laudatory speeches in honour of others or walking (submissively) behind them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
These few words will better illustrate the fitness of Mr. Campbell's portrait for our volume, than a laudatory memoir of many pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829] Reference
George Bullen paused in his walking and looked back to where the laudatory shouts of the deluded multitude, still rose around Apleon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
I've read reviews of the book, though, and they say that except, of course, he did print some secrets, it's laudatory of Princess Di. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2003] Reference
Of two of his allusions to the house one is derogatory of the wit of its patrons, the other laudatory of the readiness of its service. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
Will it be laudatory and breathless and say, isn't this exciting, or will he get the kind of scrutiny that a front-runner normally gets?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2008] Reference
When they actually asked members of the audience what they thought, they were neither as harsh nor as laudatory as the performers expected. From Wordnik.com. [Our Own Worst Critic] Reference
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