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

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

I believe they'd lionize Charley Chaplin if he'd let them, but I understand he's more exclusive than we are.

From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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

In death, however, Carter is being lionized by Republican leaders as well as Democrats upon his return to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda before his state funeral Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

The alleged villains in the trial are former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who once was lionized as shining example of British ingenuity, and Stephen Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice president of finance.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

In his first days at home, Elisha found himself lionized in the papers as an American superhero, and in a serious fight with his family.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

But much more often, it’s simply a necessity — one that’s erased when lionizing the chill moms and the wild summers.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Already she’s spent many episodes analyzing, and lionizing, the show’s newest cast member.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020

And as evangelicalism became a cultural force, it marked its difference from the wider culture by lionizing the family.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019

The girl-wife came in for her share of the lionizing.

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard