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Six example sentences with encomium, each labelled with its topic.
The preface is a long encomium to the author's teacher, running eleven pages before a single chapter begins.
Literature
The catalog essay reads as an encomium, calling every canvas a masterpiece and never mentioning the painter's weaker years.
Art
The retirement montage plays like an encomium, three minutes of colleagues describing the detective as the finest they ever knew.
Movies
The liner notes read like an encomium, thanking the producer in language usually reserved for retiring monarchs.
Music
The jersey retirement speech was a twenty-minute encomium, and the point guard being honored wept before it ended.
Basketball
The retiring senator sat through an encomium from each of her colleagues, including three who had fought her on every bill.
Politics
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