lionization
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Elon: After enjoying years of lionization as a brilliant, farsighted entrepreneur and savior of the human race, Musk found reality catching up with and outpacing the myth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Her status as a mysterious, cloistered figure had been solidified after a decade of speculation and lionization on Internet message boards and blogs as crate diggers shared rips of her impossibly rare LPs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2021
Image: Wikipedia If there’s a dark side to the film’s idealism, it’s General Magic’s lionization of punishing development crunch times.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2018
On re-reading, it is really funny to me that the writer disparages Picasso himself as being misogynistic, gross, and someone not worthy of lionization.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
Paris made a great fuss over him, but he took his lionization very calmly.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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