glorification

Example Sentences

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Recall also the Covid-era glorification of “quiet quitting”—in which employees simply stop doing the jobs they were contracted to do—and the scores of think pieces claiming that Americans’ “work-life balance” is less than optimal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

After its glorification was made illegal, the group dropped sati from its name.

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

Aureliano Segundo, startled at that unbridled glorification of his father-in-law, could not resist the temptation to make small jokes behind his wife’s back.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez