lionized

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Lionized, denigrated, dismissed, and reborn, he was finally celebrated properly, as a great poet, in 2016 with the Nobel Prize in Literature.

From Slate • May 25, 2021

Lionized in Europe, he will bring his easy-listening repertoire to Seattle for a solo evening in Benaroya Hall.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2018

Lionized, but Restless as Ever The composer and saxophonist John Zorn was easy to spot in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum one evening last month.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2013

Lionized as a man of peace and lambasted as a warmonger, beloved for his “new birth of freedom” and berated for his offenses against civil liberties and small government.

From Time • Feb. 24, 2013

Lionized in England, he returned to London last December and played a sellout concert at the 6500-seat Royal Albert Hall.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max