lionization

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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2023

These supporters were the expected conservatives and libertarians, but liberals, too; the lionization of free speech cuts across ideology.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022

Among the many byproducts of “Moneyball,” both the Michael Lewis book and the film it inspired, has been the lionization of general managers.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021

Image: Wikipedia If there’s a dark side to the film’s idealism, it’s General Magic’s lionization of punishing development crunch times.

From The Verge • Apr. 22, 2018

The renowned Tupper is undergoing the process of lionization.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various