Example sentences for: lauding

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  • In a recent column lauding Bush, Will recalls the contest between three book-writers for president in 1912--Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft--noting that "such intellect in politics is rare, and perhaps should be."

  • Well before then, Johnson's political agenda moves to front and center, best revealed in a lengthy section lauding the minimalist economic and political philosophy of Calvin Coolidge (perhaps his favorite American president) and in another passage concerning Norman Rockwell, whose representations of the "magnanimity of Middle America" send Johnson into raptures: "It is now possible to predict his [Rockwell's] emergence as an Old Master, like the Dutch genre painters, especially Jan Steen, or the English moralist William Hogarth."

  • In 1997, Rosenbaum published an Esquire cover story lauding Salinger's self-imposed Wall of Silence as "his most powerful, his most eloquent, perhaps his most lasting work of art."

  • There's a long feature lauding the New York Times for its fine reporting on mismanagement at the Columbia/HCA health care conglomerate, and another rapping 60 Minutes for a flawed story--aired 10 years ago--on alleged spontaneous acceleration in Audis.

  • When all the candidates were asked about the "digital divide"--the notion that poor people and minorities are suffering from their lack of access to computers--McCain gave an answer that could have been Al Gore's, lauding efforts to connect schools and libraries to the Internet and decrying "the growing gap between the haves and have-nots in America."


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