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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

Glew himself, importantly, is never the target of the joke: the movie has too much affection for its subject to ridicule his eccentricities, even gently, preferring to lionize him instead.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

The question remains, however, how long she can sustain the delicate balance in a nation notoriously demanding over the loyalties of those whom it chooses to lionize.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

The worst of Gordon was that he made it next to impossible for one to lionize him.

From Van Bibber and Others by Davis, Richard Harding

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

Teachers may be lionized by Hollywood, but in practice they’re underpaid, overworked and disrespected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

In the late 1960s and 1970s, the left-wing counterculture lionized outlaws like the Hells Angels for their rebellion against a hated establishment.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 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

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

Wakanda is mythical, but it lacks the problematic history rewrite required to make the forthcoming Viola Davis-starring “The Woman King” and its lionizing of a kingdom built on the slave trade palatable.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

But change will require us to stop lionizing rogues and scamps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020

The lionizing of Uncle Remus was the one ambition impossible of achievement in the literary world.

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell