lionization
Example Sentences
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And, per Zernike, the lionization of the “lone genius” in science, often used as a cover for bullying, is gradually giving way to a spirit of collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 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
So I had aid and abetment in performing the little lionization which is obligatory on a visitor to New York; for the "Colonel's" comrade, my fellow-voyager of the Asia, came to the same hotel.
From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
