lionization
Example Sentences
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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
These supporters were the expected conservatives and libertarians, but liberals, too; the lionization of free speech cuts across ideology.
From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022
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
To give her credit, I think this lionization bothered her, embarrassed her a little, and she probably wondered at times if it were all sincere.
From Do Unto Others by Clifton, Mark
