laudator
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It included such names as Derain, Picasso, Vlaminck, Marchand, Friesz, Maillol, Duncan Grant: one need not be laudator temporis acti to feel that the men of the new generation are on a smaller scale.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
No doubt there is something of idealization in all these reminiscences, and of that exaggeration which belongs to the laudator temporis acti.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
To point out the degeneracy of Florence, Dante becomes a44 laudator acti temporis in a picture of the earlier Florence that has never been equalled.
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
The laudator temperis acti is out of favour just now: the world is on the move.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
When or where this laudator temporis acti closed his wanderings, the author never heard with certainty; but most probably, as Burns says— "——he died a cadger-powny's death At some dike side."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 by Various
But what was that in the general chorus of delighted praise that went up all over the country?—and there were persons of discrimination among the laudators of Robert Cortes Holliday.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Martin Overton
He lived apart from the world, aloof from the clamour made around his name, shunning both laudators and detractors, impassive alike to invective and acclamation.
From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres
The laudators of Young have found evidence of great executive ability in his management of the migration from Nauvoo to Utah.
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
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