his retirement party featured many paeans for his long years of service to the company

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The paean to tribalism is pleasing to China — and profitable. Armond White, National Review, "Disney’s Mulan Virus," 9 Sep. 2020

In them, the reader could find two things: a tone whose purpose was to provide a psychological barrier from the distress caused by this administration and a reassuring paean to normalcy and the durability of institutions. Colin Dickey, The New Republic, "The Helpless Outrage of the Anti-Trump Book," 7 Aug. 2020

Anna Murphy, fashion editor of The Times of London, wrote a paean to lipstick in Harper’s Bazaar in November 2019, months before the pandemic. Maria Puente, USA TODAY, "Kissing lipstick goodbye: Are facemasks wiping away the simple joy of cosmetics?," 31 May 2019

Irresistible is a paean to the people of middle America that, by stripping away their complexities, leaves them utterly dehumanized. Jacob Lambert, TheWeek, "Jon Stewart's disappointing return," 26 June 2020

Richmond’s Lee sculpture sits atop a pedestal on a traffic circle at the gateway to Monument Avenue, an architectural paean to white Richmonders’ long tradition of gracious, segregated living. Allison Anna Tait, The Conversation, "Latest legal hurdle to removing Confederate statues in Virginia: The wishes of their long-dead white donors," 19 June 2020

In another paean to domestic life, photographer Martyn Thompson turns his camera on his own residence in Woodstock, New York. Kristina O’neill, WSJ, "Editor in Chief Kristina O’Neill on the June/July 2020 Issue," 4 June 2020

This paean to Venice — part notebook, part prose poem — is composed in vignettes of two decades of winters Brodsky spent there. Jordan Kisner, New York Times, "In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports," 27 Mar. 2020

Now For all Reno’s paeans to courage, the pandemic has shown us, in starker terms than before, the extent to which modern conservatism is driven by resentment of a seemingly hostile, terrifying world. Matthew Sitman, The New Republic, "Why the Pandemic Is Driving Conservative Intellectuals Mad," 21 May 2020

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