The choir sang the requested paean to the congregation. From LearnThat.org.
I've always wanted to use the word paean in a post. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Saunders SquawkBox] Reference
The word paean – pronounced “pee-an” – is an old one that has fallen into disuse. From Wordnik.com. [And Now, A Word On My Sponsor] Reference
Barney Ronay took time out from lovingly carving 'BR+JC' into a tree-trunk to rattle out this 908-word paean to new Liverpool recruit Joe Cole. From Wordnik.com. [$tevie Says Relax, I'm Staying At Liverpool] Reference
A paean from the bells!. From Wordnik.com. [Oxford Must Reject Islamic Call To Prayer – Update « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
This kind of paean makes a real close: a short syllable can give no effect of finality, and therefore makes the rhythm appear truncated. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
Meanwhile the loony right-wingers (who were soundly defeated in the last election) are pretending that social democracy is some kind of paean to Stalinism. From Wordnik.com. [Front Page - The Washington Times] Reference
7,000-word paean to the joys of testosterone therapy. From Wordnik.com. [The Other McCain] Reference
Hades, so the paean of Dionysus was lost in the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Kuttner is mostly right in his paean to the mixed economy. From Wordnik.com. [The Evils Of Markets] Reference
He was not about to deliver a paean to the Libyan strongman. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon to Swoon] Reference
Athens raised a paean, or war-song, so similar to that of the. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
Nor did one grudge Mr. REDMOND'S paean in praise of the Irish troops. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917] Reference
Eric Clapton won Grammies for his paean to his young son, "" Tears in Heaven. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning All The Way To No. 1] Reference
Thompson gave a rambling, folksy, effective and instantly forgettable paean to McCain. From Wordnik.com. [Oral Exam, Part II] Reference
They've got their own TV paean ( "Models, Inc.") and even their own fanzine ( "Top Model"). From Wordnik.com. [Absolutely Not Fabulous] Reference
The news spread like wildfire, and a great paean of triumph went up from a thousand throats. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
John Carney's New York Times op-ed piece is a tour de force, a paean to nonsensical thinking. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: N.Y.Times Op-Ed Impugns Financial Reform by Imagining Fannie Is Just Like Wall Street] Reference
Instead, he delivered a paean to teamwork that his staff celebrated as a motivational triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Many Unhappy Returns] Reference
It's also a little paean to his wife's experience: she and Mueck have two daughters, ages 11 and 14. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Less Is Mueck] Reference
The K-12 complex isn't merely an overwrought paean to the nation's most celebrated liberal political family. From Wordnik.com. [Broke] Reference
"Lil 'Ol' Lonesome Dixie Town," an otherwise stock paean to rural Southern life, is spirited roadhouse rock. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Billy Currington, "Enjoy Yourself"] Reference
It's not just a reference to the doll but a paean to her real-life baby sister napping in the room next door. From Wordnik.com. [She's Not Baby Jessica Anymore] Reference
Every summer has a theme tune, and for me this year it's Jay-Z's epic paean to New York, Empire State of Mind. From Wordnik.com. [Jay-Z's hymn to modernity] Reference
"Pain (Interlude)" is practically a paean to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - this is highly unlikely loverman music. From Wordnik.com. [Album review: Trey Songz, "Passion, Pain and Pleasure"] Reference
"Pain (Interlude)" is practically a paean to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" -- this is highly unlikely loverman music. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Fennessey reviews Trey Songz's album 'Passion, Pain & Pleasure'] Reference
The teacher's lesson, though, is well worth learning: this is a celebration of mischief, a paean to senseless abandon. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Davies] Reference
Well might this paean break forth, for this is probably the broadest benevolent legislation ever enacted up to this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
Some exulted and sang the paean, while others were grieved and lamented, so that all places were filled with cries and groans. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
"Every parent in France dreams of sending his child to an American university," Sarkozy proclaimed in his paean to Yankee Doodledom. From Wordnik.com. [Sarko, the American?] Reference
Its TV ads, titled "Believe," are a tribute to old-fashioned values like loyalty and teamwork -- and, above all, a paean to the fans. From Wordnik.com. [Root, Root Root For The Losers] Reference
Then shall pour forth the double paean that thrills through the glorious final chorus of Schumann's Faust -- men and women answering in antiphons. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
I for one stumbled into BraithWorld after reading his five-star paean to a novel I'd recently read and admired, "Peace Like a River," by Leif Enger. From Wordnik.com. [See More About Me] Reference
Then he too was caught in the spell he had woven; he could not detach himself from the song, but found mind and body blending with the rising notes of the paean. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The Gap, that arbiter to post-baby-boomer tastes, celebrated the form last year in a TV commercial that featured poet Max Blagg reciting a paean to his old jeans. From Wordnik.com. [A Sudden Turn For The Verse] Reference
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