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
His character — only referred to as Nitram, so as not to lionize the actual shooter, who remains in prison — plods through the movie like an intimidatingly oversized child.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
“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
It went so far as to lionize the U.S. military as a "logistical superpower" able to "move heaven and earth."
From Salon • Aug. 22, 2021
Just as Reginald was finishing his prize poem, Scott was on a tour through England, and breakfasted at Richard Heber’s rooms at Oxford, when on the way to lionize Blenheim.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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