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
They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2023
“There is a prevailing narrative in the public mind to sort of lionize certain weapons systems as having a defining impact on certain conflicts,” he said, but “the reality is often more complex.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 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
In spite of serious discrepancies in his attire, however, I saw that Mrs. Effie meant to lionize him tremendously.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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
I know he wouldn’t have been lionized the way he is today.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
The alleged villains in the trial are former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who once was lionized as shining example of British ingenuity, and Stephen Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice president of finance.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
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
Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
A closer listen shows she isn’t lionizing 18th Street or Florencia 13.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
Stop lionizing him and his ilk, and instead cover people who are responding productively.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
At the same time, the N.F.L. carefully tapped into the American fascination with organizational genius, lionizing the figure of the coach.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
When we got to the door it was pitch dark; and thus ended our lionizing of the public buildings of Liverpool.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
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