glorify
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Nawrocki said Kyiv's "decision to glorify the UPA is not only outrageous" but also "deeply disappointing", undermining "reconciliation" between the two nations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
“The campaign to glorify him,” wrote one biographer in 1988, “has surpassed fanatic religious fervor. The North Korean ‘sun of the nation’ shines both day and night, and it is hard to escape his ubiquity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Roman triumphal arches were built to glorify the immense, violent power of autocratic leaders.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2025
TV shows and social media can glorify the idea of student life.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
For there were twenty-four of them, each one given his night to preach—to shine, as it were, before men, and to glorify his Heavenly Father.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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Klee’s “National Socialist Revolution Drawings”—childlike works merging abstraction and expressionism—also challenged the Führer’s demand for “realism” that glorifies the Nordic‑German ideal of beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Even someone as fortunate as Ramsey, who gets to do what she loves for a living, isn’t immune to losing her humility to a world that glorifies constant labor.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025
But the organisation says, in reality, it "glorifies thinness and vilifies weight gain" and "promotes disordered eating behaviours."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
The press glorifies Dudamel as the next Leonard Bernstein one minute and looks for flaws anywhere it can find them the next.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
Again, as love glorifies the life, and brings joy into its commonest details, she must also be beautiful and laughter-loving.
From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
Tuchel was unhappy with England's lack of intensity in their opening friendly against New Zealand in Tampa, the 1-0 win effectively a glorified training session as he fielded two different teams in each half.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
"It's almost like he is trying to reach for this glorified manhood that he cannot embody anymore," said Sabrina Karim, a political science professor at Cornell University.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Aimed squarely at kids of all sizes, “Star Wars” has become a glorified tour of a billionaire’s expanding playworld and “The Mandalorian and Grogu” wants the track well-oiled, not bumpy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
A federal court in Texas may not stop a federal court in Rhode Island from adjudicating a case by issuing a glorified restraining order against the parties.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
The Holo’s an independent unit, a glorified map really, since it can neither send nor receive signals.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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“You can put your effort into glorifying your cake with frosting, dreaming up an exciting trim that puts your own label on it.”
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
“Duchamp Takes New York” readily conforms to the predictable narrative about the artist, glorifying his influence and spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
That makes a graciously glorifying cultural district, which functions as creation being existential not commercial, just up the road from L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
Sansal may be free, but prominent French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes remains in an Algerian prison, sentenced to seven years for "glorifying terrorism" for having sought to interview an outlawed group.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
But his battle with Riefenstahl—ultimately and ironically a battle over a shared goal, glorifying the ideals of the Nazis—raged on throughout the remainder of the games and beyond.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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