glorification

Example Sentences

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But over the years, everyone accused of involvement in Kanwar’s death and the glorification that followed has been cleared by courts.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

Indeed, the glorification may well have been of the composer himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024

Some of those popular expositions were criticized by historians for inaccurate claims and deliberate glorification of Russian rulers and their conquests.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

In Michigan, avoiding the glorification of what he called “the aesthetics of fascism” was partially behind the removal of a 20-foot-high portrait of Hitler that had drawn some salutes.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond