“All these premises represent an inversion of the traditional modes of absolutist encomium.”

“Like all sites conceived as digital brochures, it has far too much text which includes an overly lavish encomium by a Sunday newspaper scribe.”

“This encomium of praise for the liberating Romans was soon replaced by a rather different view in mainstream Judean opinion.”

“It is one of those few subjects on which an encomiast may expatiate without deviating from the truth.”

“A man of genius may securely laugh at a mode of attack by which his reviler, in half a century or less, becomes his encomiast.”

“Sherstone, says the encomiast, gained for Thurkil a large share of the fatherland.”

“Among the new poems in his new book is one so good that the publisher has put it on the back of the hardcover edition, instead of blurbs and encomia.”

“Her poetry is replete with such images, as time and again she writes encomia or praise-poems to particular mothers as well as the state of motherhood as an abstract ideal.”

“Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns.”

“Among the various guidelines for the speakers, one rule advises students to avoid encomiums at the beginning of the speech.”

“Her original choreographies based on Indian mythology and contemporary issues earned her encomiums from around the world.”

“But the most frequently recorded encomiums come from men and women in his own constituency.”