Word: paean
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...unbending bureaucrat, but a basically gentle man with excellent listening skills and a gift with words. He has welcomed his longtime theological nemesis Hans K?ng for a long chat at the Pope's Castel Gandolfo. Benedict's first encyclical was not a finger-wagging treatise on doctrine, but a paean to Christian love. The sometimes shy pontiff has even begun to enjoy all the adoration heaped upon him by the piazzas full of faithful. Still, Benedict has drawn the line on doctrine, pushing through a previously languishing document that bars homosexuals from entering the seminary, while encouraging Catholic politicians...
...doughnut-covered, pink-clad Paris Hilton lookalike. This is the type of thing that you’d like to do if you could get away with it, which is exactly what the song is about. “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” is a paean to the misuse of power, featuring lines such as “If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich, would you do it? Yeah yeah yeah yeah.” After all, if you could make a bunch of cops ravenously chase a pastry-bedecked socialite...
...Alice Black takes herself off to Paris to work on her manuscript where she meets Mr. Sakamoto, himself researching the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Over glasses of red wine, and later by e-mail, they toast their love of modernity. "The telephone is our rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide out the other end, mere voice, mere function. Wires, currents, satellites, electrical systems: these are the hardware we extend ourselves into, spaced out, underground, alive in the trembling skeins that arch across nations...
...legends like De La Soul have been known to pull off entertaining skits (“Brain-Washed Follower” is a stand-out example), KMD’s albums are peppered with them, and even “Madvillainy” features a somewhat light-hearted paean to the glories of “grass.” But having almost every track either begin and/or end with a skit seriously impacts the repeat listening capacity of the album...
...President, contends that the public will judge Bush on the future, not the past. "They want to know what happened," he said. "But they're more interested in how we're helping these people get back on their feet." Nonetheless, Bush, whose stump patter often includes a paean to maternal wisdom, is learning the hard way a lesson any mother could have imparted: you have only one chance to make a first impression. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Matthew Cooper and Karen Tumulty / Washington...