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It is more likely that the report was invented by his eulogist.

Yet, as each eulogist felt compelled to insist, those they did reach were forever transformed.

Not even Lamartine, his eulogist, found much to say in favour of the story.

One eulogist spoke for 43 minutes.

The press responded with its usual glee: "George has been a great eulogist, the defender of the Constitution!

Another term is eulogist.

Kirilenko served as the funeral's chief eulogist.

The eulogist finds himself with a choice of either expurgating the facts of the subject's life or delivering an ungenerous farewell.

The big turnout was because he broke barriers and gave hope, said one eulogist, in explaining the feelings that Mr. Cunningham invoked.

German nationalists specified Stehr as an eulogist of German soul.

He had been visited that day by Victor Hugo, who later served as pallbearer and eulogist at Balzac's funeral.

He agreed with one moving eulogist who called Moshoeshoe II, who died at 57, "still a promise, when his best was yet to come."

Still undecided, he was persuaded to stand by 82-year-old Elias Evans, local historian and Lloyd George eulogist.

He was the frowning, head-shaking skeptic at a funeral, sourly pointing out that the eulogist failed to mention the deceased's various sins and flaws.

On the page, however - and often in the Guardian's own pages - he's an exuberant eulogist for the theatre, brimming with enthusiasm, especially for stages past.

Bishop Eusebius, his fulsome eulogist, said Constantine dressed thus solely to impress the masses; privately, he laughed at himself.

As one eulogist put it, 'two communist hearts [beat as one]under the Romanian flag.'

A reporter of fact is in service to the facts, a eulogist to the family of the dead, but a writer serves the story without apology to competing claims.

The most personal tribute came from the eulogist who knew Lieutenant Meyran best, Battalion Chief Gaetani.

The eulogist was Meyer Kukle of Dumont, three-time director of the Trail Conference.

Samaranch was the main eulogist for Horst Dassler, the president of Adidas, who died of cancer at 51.

It is a milieu, one might add, that Mr. Auchincloss knows intimately, and of which he is at once a sincere eulogist and a trenchant critic.

This made him, on Tennyson's death in 1892, a strong candidate to be his eulogist, the commission resulting in his fine 'Lachrymae Musarum'.

"Elena Filippovna," repeated the eulogist, clearly about to bring his funeral oration to a close, "permit me to recall you from the depths of your sorrow and prostration.

Butler's eulogist Nigel Jackson described this book as "an essay built around an analysis of the controversial Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

With openings like those, the eulogizer has you spellbound.

His political speeches veer between stunted and long-winded, but he is an excellent eulogizer.

He died of a heart attack, according to his eulogizer John D. Roberts, "at the very height of his career".

Faulkner's eulogizer notes that he held an affinity for "the older theological position," and notes that some of Faulkner's writings were considered to be "controversial."

Now that the week is over, don't miss David Plotz's "Assessment" of Diana's brother and eulogizer, Earl Spencer.

If Aunt Mary's eulogy could as easily be about Aunt Louise, the eulogizer has not accomplished anything; one might as well have the mailman read a generic eulogy downloaded from the Internet like a term paper ("Mary, we hardly knew ye .")