lionize

It's nice for people to support you, don't get me wrong, but we can't lionize people being in prison.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024

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

Teams are insular, us-against-the-world micro-communities, and American culture tends to lionize those who close off the rest of the world, ignore criticism and win anyway.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2023

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

I believe they'd lionize Charley Chaplin if he'd let them, but I understand he's more exclusive than we are.

From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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

Scientists, the press and the public alike tend to tell and retell these success stories, lionizing intrepid researchers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

And as evangelicalism became a cultural force, it marked its difference from the wider culture by lionizing the family.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019

He was not quite sure whether to think she was a serious and dull young person, absolutely sincere and very much a hero-worshipper, or one of the lionizing type he had met in the city.

From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles