laudatory

The first time round, in 2011, the critics, while not unkind, were not laudatory.

Or, for that matter, say anything laudatory about Barack Obama.

The morning after your performance your breakfast-table is covered with newspapers teeming with laudatory criticisms.

Look at this from the author of a very interesting and laudatory critique.

The specification is objected to as containing large portions that are merely laudatory.

Something between an earthly Queen and a divine Egeria; "Serena" he calls her; and, in his high-flown fashion, is very laudatory.

Homer names the Pelasgians only thrice, and each time with a laudatory epithet.