lionize

Example Sentences

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They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon

Cinema’s most famous and historically lionized auteurs have been writer-directors — John Cassavetes, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson — whose films are entirely of a piece, unsullied by the fingerprints of helpful “script doctors.”

From Washington Post

She was soon lauded as the next Steve Jobs, crowned the world’s youngest billionaire and lionized on numerous magazine covers.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

Every single one of them was a direct quotation from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lionized director of the federal government’s National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

From Washington Times