laud

Object

• album: Those tracks simply do not belong on an album lauded for being one of the greatest of all time.
• growth: It hated and at the same time lauded the growth of modern industrialism and the rise of the cities.
• film: As often as not the films so lauded are likely to be quite forgotten in a year or so.
• government: They laud a government which does the bidding of international financial institutions and can manage donor projects.
• fact: The party should laud that fact, and put resources behind areas that are beginning to be effective in campaigning.

Subject

• critic: Laban has been even more comprehensively lauded by critics and public alike.
• british: Lauded by the british as the inventor of television, was John logie Baird really a hero or a fraud?

Preposition: as

• hero: Anyway, when the expedition finally return to France, Maurice Herzog is lauded as a national hero by the French.
• world-beater: Still the difference between being lauded as world-beaters and being condemned as a bunch of tossers, is as slim as ever.

Modifying Another Word

• critically: Throughout the 20th Century many critically lauded productions continued the theater's successful streak, which shows no signs of ending.
• rightly: Created by Tony Garnett, The Cops has been rightly lauded for its originality and brutal honesty.
• much: Her place in the much lauded historical mystery is marked by a ticket stub from an exotic airline.
• widely: Perversely in 1988 I didn't choose to buy or even scrounge a tape of the widely lauded Daydream Nation album.
• often: Brilliantly marketed, and, rather perversely, often lauded by exactly the same kind of people who condemn Disney as the evil empire.
• so: As often as not the films so lauded are likely to be quite forgotten in a year or so.

Preposition: from

• rooftop: So it was with some cynicism that I downloaded the latest piece of software that has been lauded from the rooftops.

Preposition: by

• critic: Adored by his fans, admired by his fellow comics and lauded by the critics, he still isn't a household name.
• press: They became media celebrities, lauded by the press and invited to chic star parties.
• british: Lauded by the british as the inventor of television, was John logie Baird really a hero or a fraud?