lionization

She picks at the American lionization of our creative heroes, especially those with asterisks next to their names because they’ve abused young women.

It’s not just because of the killing and the subsequent lionization of Luigi Mangione, the man charged with—not convicted of!—having done it.

This focus on shared credit subverts the typical American lionization of individual success.

Ukrainians, however, largely refrained from joining in worldwide lionization of Navalny, with many remembering his tacit initial support of the Russian leader’s illegal seizure and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

Elon: After enjoying years of lionization as a brilliant, farsighted entrepreneur and savior of the human race, Musk found reality catching up with and outpacing the myth.