Example Sentences

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Famous fans like Stewart Lee have hymned the show's odd profundity: Jackson's ideology throws into relief the purposelessness of our supposedly meaningful lives.

From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011

It is almost impossible for me to describe her, a presumption indeed, when so many abler pens than mine have hymned her praises.

From The City in the Clouds by Gull, C. Ranger

She was indeed a daughter of the gods, tall, slender, virile, an aureole of purest poetry upon her brows that only John Milton could have hymned in their serenity.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

A poet might have hymned her thus, but no painter could have painted her.

From Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.

It was such a soul as Horace might have loved, as Theocritus might have hymned in glad Greek song.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch