lionize

Example Sentences

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They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon

Cinema’s most famous and historically lionized auteurs have been writer-directors — John Cassavetes, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson — whose films are entirely of a piece, unsullied by the fingerprints of helpful “script doctors.”

From Washington Post

It is not uncommon to see Proud Boys wearing T-shirts lionizing acts like throwing people out of helicopters or featuring logos reading, “I’m Just Here for the Violence.”

From New York Times

Griffith’s racist motion picture “The Birth of a Nation,” which lionized the original Ku Klux Klan — ascended the mountain in November 1915 to burn a cross and resurrect the KKK.

From Los Angeles Times

The New York Times lionized police efforts, saying hundreds of officers were using methods "as modern as scrutinizing video from surveillance cameras and parsing electronic records, and as old-fashioned as a wanted poster."

From Salon