lionize

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

It refuses to lionize Logan, but it's still a tough act to follow.

From Salon ● May 22, 2023

“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

Russia loves to lionize its literary giants, but even the mighty Russian state could not open a museum in a shared apartment with other residents still ensconced in it.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

All the people will just go wild over him and lionize him.

From A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

Stubborn, single-minded and tireless, lionized and controversial, the Los Angeles water boss was 72.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

As Greenspan left office in 2005, Greenspan was lionized as the “maestro,” or the greatest central banker of the century.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by Allied troops, is lionized in American churches, and his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

The park, named by the late West Seattle philanthropist and park commissioner Ferdinand Schmitz for a precolonial Native American leader lionized by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, has hardly been static.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

And though it's clear to anyone with an ounce of logic that they are a pack of charlatans, they're lionized throughout the Empire not just as immortal, but as oracles and mind-readers.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

But much more often, it’s simply a necessity — one that’s erased when lionizing the chill moms and the wild summers.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Stop lionizing him and his ilk, and instead cover people who are responding productively.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Already she’s spent many episodes analyzing, and lionizing, the show’s newest cast member.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

But change will require us to stop lionizing rogues and scamps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020

"I don't know that I shall see anything of them," said Tom; "I shall just leave a pasteboard, but I'm not in the humour to be dancing about lionizing."

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes