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I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have ....† (source)
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And yet those very same employees who once heaped praise on him will be too busy eulogizing some new figure to stop and examine their sense of judgement.† (source)
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The South I was born in was eulogized by pay-as-you-pray TV preachers, enclosed in a coffin of light blue aluminum siding and laid to rest in a polyester suit, from Wal-Mart.† (source)
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Hero cop, they were eulogizing him.† (source)
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I eulogized the falling leaves.† (source)
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Others eulogized this process as the mysterious workings of genius, but Poincaré was not content with such a shallow explanation.† (source)
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Every man in the chapel hoped that when his hour came he, too, would be eulogized, which is to say forgiven, and that all of his lapses, greeds, errors, and strayings from the truth would be invested with coherence and looked upon with charity.† (source)
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Generally the words were eulogistic in the extreme but occasionally they were not.† (source)
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Various middleweight preachers showed up to eulogize him, led by the church's eloquent head pastor, Walter Fauntroy, a longtime aide to Dr. Martin Luther King and a Congressional representative from the District for twenty years.† (source)
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Eugene would find his father, leaning perilously on Jannadeau's dirty glass showcase, or on the creaking little fence that marked him off, talking politics, war, death, and famine, denouncing the Democrats, with references to the bad weather, taxation, and soupkitchens that attended their administration, and eulogizing all the acts, utterances, and policies of Theodore Roosevelt.† (source)
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For we do not see ourselves as Hans Castorp's eulogist and want to leave room for the suggestion that, for him, work was simply something that stood in the way of the unencumbered enjoyment of a Maria Mancini.† (source)
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It may, therefore, be easily imagined there is no scarcity of guides at the Colosseum, that wonder of all ages, which Martial thus eulogizes: "Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Caesars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument."† (source)
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The country's ten thousand dead had gone unmourned and uneulogized while the boys went on singing English songs and playing cricket, moved only by reports that reached them, three weeks late, from the British Isles.† (source)uneulogized = not ceremoniously praisedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneulogized means not and reverses the meaning of eulogized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.† (source)
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This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people, that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes.† (source)
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When parents and grandparents died, Padre Esteban could eulogize that they lived good lives and made beautiful families to carry on the Lord's work.† (source)
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