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

Mr. Ostin’s unflagging support for artists led them to lionize him.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

“We foolishly lionize athletes and make them heroes because they can hit a ball or catch one,” Mr. Russell once said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2022

Two women tried to lionize him, and he ran away and played with the children.

From Lion and the Unicorn by Richard Harding Davis

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

MacArthur Park is L.A.’s Gloria Swanson — a place long lionized as a former jewel supposedly ruined by waves of newcomers and apathetic politicians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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

The park, named by the late West Seattle philanthropist and park commissioner Ferdinand Schmitz for a precolonial Native American leader lionized by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, has hardly been static.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

Outstanding oarsmen were lionized in the national press, even in the era of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

Stop lionizing him and his ilk, and instead cover people who are responding productively.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

It’s hilarious and biting, and the hippie pacifist ends up lionizing John McCain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2020

But the captain and the ship's doctor cut short any attempt at lionizing by rushing the midshipmen to a stateroom containing three berths.

From Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock