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
Our reviewer, Lucinda Rosenfeld, said that it “bravely questions the particularly female lionization of thin and loathing of fat.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
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
Then came the news of Speke's return and lionization in London.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
