lionize

Example Sentences

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There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2023

Glew himself, importantly, is never the target of the joke: the movie has too much affection for its subject to ridicule his eccentricities, even gently, preferring to lionize him instead.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

“We foolishly lionize athletes and make them heroes because they can hit a ball or catch one,” Mr. Russell once said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2022

I wonder what there is, new and strange, that you wouldn't lionize, as you call it.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by