lionize
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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
Mr. Ostin’s unflagging support for artists led them to lionize him.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 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
It went so far as to lionize the U.S. military as a "logistical superpower" able to "move heaven and earth."
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2021
Two women tried to lionize him, and he ran away and played with the children.
From Lion and the Unicorn by Richard Harding Davis
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
Mr. Rusesabagina was lionized globally after the 2004 release of “Hotel Rwanda,” which depicted him as savior of more than 1,200 people at the luxury hotel he managed during the genocide.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 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
Things get messy when we start lionizing anyone, perhaps especially young men who were just good at playing a child’s game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
Already she’s spent many episodes analyzing, and lionizing, the show’s newest cast member.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
And as evangelicalism became a cultural force, it marked its difference from the wider culture by lionizing the family.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019
They are with difficulty taught by the friend who is lionizing them to distinguish it from the University.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
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