| The placing of this paean in the mouth of Cranmer would defuse any audience disapproval of a Mariological subtext. |
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| Anderson cuts back the distracting noises and crumbling static to reveal a stark paean about Odyssean fortitude. |
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| Beethoven's only opera, both a love story and a paean to freedom, is full of dramatic and musical inconsistencies, yet it works brilliantly. |
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| Then, gradually, a light is seen in Diemut's room, and suddenly all the flames burst out, and the opera ends in a paean of love. |
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| The former is 7 songs over 38 minutes, a paean to domestic bliss, to chores and children and Citizen Kane and Joan of Arc and Elvis. |
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| But despite these revelations, the novel is a paean to the power of the aesthetic. |
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| The first few minutes of the film are a paean to romantic love, recreating that intensity and joy with disarming simplicity. |
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| Tyler's fiction has always danced dangerously close to being a paean to the so-called simple life. |
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| The book is an unabashed paean to the actresses, and their roles, who account for so much of its interest. |
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| The movie Hoosiers is a paean to basketball in Indiana, a fable born of reality, the Cinderella heroes coming from a small town named Hickory. |
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| In the armies of classical Greece, the paean or war-chant was the standard opening to set-piece battles. |
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| The play is a character-driven comedy but also becomes a paean to the joy that achieving even modest goals can bring. |
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| This novel is a dreamy paean to a place that at times seems to transcend the bounds of reality. |
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| The first song of the movie is a paean to the mazdoor who toils in the factories of the rich, without getting her or his just due. |
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| The film, then, works both as a paean to old age and a bittersweet look at a bygone era. |
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| The two Pacific white-sided dolphins riding the bow wave of our boat are a paean to power and a testament to biomechanical efficiency. |
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| This is a paean to the power and value of globalisation as a force for good. |
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| In its fuller exposition, the poem is a paean to the westward expansion of the country. |
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| Alongside the paean to the liberty, dignity and equality in Justice Kennedy's majority opinion is a dash of deference to the states. |
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| That paean to one man's oafishness and insensitivity, Curb Your Enthusiasm, is built around a comedian who couldn't make it in stand-up because he was too abrasive. |
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| However, it is in essence a paean to ESDP, which we have opposed both in principle and in practice for more than ten years. |
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| The whole production, really, is a paean to the beauty of Olivia, who, as played by Blais, displays none of the blandness this character sometimes falls into. |
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| Instead, the book is a paean to family, the navy and heroism. |
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| Its central atrium is literally breathtaking, a joyous paean of luminous space, with which the office floors engage in terraces, balconies and platforms. |
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| Rare is the Canadian poet of any era who has not, in his own style, composed a paean to the raw majesty of our natural surroundings. |
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| It's a great idea, a heavily sardonic paean to the joys of dressing down, brainlessness and the oeuvre of James Blunt. |
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| The report adopted by the Chairman of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism is nothing but a paean to the nuclear industry. |
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| The third movement is a true paean to the contemporary world, and is deeply influenced by rhythm 'n' blues pop music. |
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| This is a great Hymn to the Sun, a paean of praise for all creatures to their Creator. |
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| He went on to say that it was not so easy to create a paean, and that they should not lose heart but try their best once again. |
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| This song should not be a mere song but be a paean of loyalty reflecting the ardent desire that all our people entertain in their hearts. |
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| Brett makes it clear from the outset of Trauma Farm that this is not another cozy paean to the homespun rural life. |
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| In his worst week as leader, a front bencher has written a paean of praise to the very man who made mincemeat of him and thus prompted the crisis. |
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| If the point was to create a paean to mediocrity, then Linklater has made maybe the definitive work on the subject. |
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| But the book was ultimately a paean to man's fighting spirit. |
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| Smith was rumoured to be in the running for Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning paean to the spaghetti western prior to production. |
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| He spoke movingly about his parents, got a rousing response to every paean to business success and American values. |
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| In its modern origins California was paean to progress in the best sense of the word. |
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| Janacek's Glagolitic Mass is as much a paean to nature's life-force as it is to God. |
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| Contrary to what one might expect of an essay on freeways, this one is neither a diatribe nor a paean. |
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| Standing in a tight circle the entire playing, coaching and support staff cantillate the words as if coming from the depths of their soul, a paean to their forebears. |
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| It's a tender paean to ambition and creation that raptly summates the artistic credo of Miyazaki and Ghibli alike, even as it looks and feels like nothing else they've previously produced. |
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| His book is also a lovely paean to the dearness of one's friends. |
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| Here, I must pay a special tribute to the women around the world who are defying the odds to make a rousing paean for peace and justice in their conflict ridden communities. |
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| This was her land, and she listened to its voice, translating it into canvases that ultimately form one grand tableau, a paean to the beauty of Nature. |
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| Through a melancholy paean to the disappearing art of traditional singing, veteran director Im Kwon-taek, who already has 90 films under his belt, took a new look at the nation's painful course since the Japanese occupation. |
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| Fonda persuaded director Roger Corman to hire the band for his drugsploitation movie The Trip, a paean to LSD scripted by Jack Nicholson. |
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| First single Opposite of Adults masterfully takes psychedelic popsters MGMT's Kids and turns it into a paean to youthful optimism and ambition. |
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| It's a paean to educational progressivism dressed up as a guide to economic competitiveness. |
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| At its best, The Sushi Economy reads like the giddiest, geekiest Food Network special ever made, a paean to man's endless innovation in the name of gluttony. |
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| You simply lift your heart to a paean with a tilt in the hat-brim, and leap from misery into merriment with a Rosalind feather in your Juliet cap. |
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| The devilish host chorused a paean of victory as they swarmed back. |
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