lionization

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2024

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

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 major beneficiary of this nutritional lionization has been John Yudkin, a prominent British nutritionist who declared sugar to be Pure, White and Deadly in 1972 in a widely read popular book.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2018

To give her credit, I think this lionization bothered her, embarrassed her a little, and she probably wondered at times if it were all sincere.

From Do Unto Others by Clifton, Mark