lionize
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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
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 library says it will humanize Roosevelt, not lionize him.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2022
In that respect "Billions" continues to be useful – the more we understand men like Axe, the less inclined we are to lionize them.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2021
"I am afraid you are trying to lionize me," he jested.
From Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon
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 her home state, where Feinstein is the longest serving U.S. senator, she was lionized for her historic tenure in public service.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
And though it's clear to anyone with an ounce of logic that they are a pack of charlatans, they're lionized throughout the Empire not just as immortal, but as oracles and mind-readers.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
But change will require us to stop lionizing rogues and scamps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020
At the same time, the N.F.L. carefully tapped into the American fascination with organizational genius, lionizing the figure of the coach.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
And as evangelicalism became a cultural force, it marked its difference from the wider culture by lionizing the family.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2019
It is really very time-killing, this lionizing, and I am sure you pity me in it.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
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