How To Use Lionize In A Sentence
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It would still have been a mistake to lionize Witt for choosing only the rite of passage, football, over its intended outcome, the civic leadership cherished by Cecil Rhodes and, once upon a time, by Yale.
Jim Sleeper: Why Yale Fumbled Its Quarterback's Rhodes Scholarship Pass
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So -- staying out of the question of who's 'better' -- the, ahem, typically "lionized" blogger is very much an apple compared to Broder's fruitcake.
Ceci nest pas une paranoia - Swampland - TIME.com
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The first show lionized him as part of photography's distinguished history; critics consistently viewed him as the most modern of the old guard.
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He has magic feet but those who lament rather than lionise him say that he is a hostage to tragic attitude.
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The Western tradition was to conclude that Mary Magdalene was the presumed sexual sinner who was lionised not as any kind of apostle but as ‘the penitent.’
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Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street.
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(changed "deify" to "lionize". not sure atheists are into deifying) '' 'Liberal denial' '' is the tendency of [[liberals]] to conceal, deny or censor the truth for ideological reasons.
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When his early results seemed to find positive effects for school integration, he was lionized by the profession.
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By the 1920's, he was lionised by literary London.
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He's been "lionized" by Wendell Berry and Howard's 1940 _An Agricultural Testament_ has been "absorbed" by readers of Rodale's _Organic Gardening and Farming_.
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In 1778, after an absence of 28 years, he made a triumphal return to Paris, where he was lionized for four months in a way few writers can ever have experienced.
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Sometimes it comes to you, but at Leeds (where he was lionised by supporters) it got a bit silly towards the end.
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To those who lionise him, he is a clear-eyed defender of faith and nationhood, a speaker of truth in a time of deceivers.
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Nehru eulogized him and lionized him as a great secularist and anti-feudal.
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Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor.
2010 March 06 « The BookBanter Blog
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* A party that mocked Obama as just giving good speeches (which he usually writes) then lionized Sarah Palin for performing as an anchorperson reading a speech from a teleprompter written by an ex-Bush aide.
Mark Green: 7 Days: Spinning 12 Hypocrisies w/ Huffington, Vanden Heuvel, Bender & Green
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Lincoln is lionized not because he saved self-government, but primarily because he sanctified and vastly extended Leviathan.
February « 2009 « Antiwar.com Blog
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People will lionize you as the Voice of a Generation.
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The Liberals have now lost virtually all of the momentum they had built up since Ignatieff took over as leader, and as some wag had it, he's gone from being "lionized" to "Dionized.
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During Soviet rule a man from a nearby village was lionised for supposedly living to 168.
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Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor.
2010 March 06 « The BookBanter Blog
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Italian media have lionized Gregorio De Falco, the coast guard commander who can be heard upbraiding Mr. Schettino over the phone.
Italy Probes Captain's Call With Boss
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There's also a strong temptation to lionize Pedro to the point of sainthood, and while Winick doesn't dive in headfirst, he doesn't exactly shy away from the opportunity either.
Robot Reviews: Pedro & Me | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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I just never understand why he was lionized by some as ‘an incredibly talented yarn-spinner.’
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During a visit to Britain in 1886 he was lionized with genuine enthusiasm and affection.
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It's sick for the obituary to lionize a black-hearted murderer without even a mournful mention of his innocent victims.
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The New York Times "lionized" (p. 100) now disgraced former Durham County, North Carolina District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, the persecutor of the members of the 2005-2006
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He was lionized by aristocratic and literary London, survived a hectic love affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, and became the constant companion of Augusta.
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They criticize King Saul heavily, lionize David, praise Solomon and deplore the division of the country into northern and southern kingdoms.
Douglas Knight: Biblical Israel's History Viewed From Inside And Out
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So we can dwell on his failings, or we can lionize him.
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He is lionised in Europe but expects his latest film to open in 10 times as many cinemas in France than in Britain.
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Yet when some bozo on a talk show confesses to an addiction or a perversion in front of millions of viewers, he's lionized as ‘courageous’ for speaking out.
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President John F. Kennedy, lionized by today's supply-siders for his 1963 tax cut, first proposed closing the deferral loophole 40 years ago, when it was a far smaller drain.
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He spun out novels and plays too, all suitably lionized - though the author was unawed: ‘I think novels are rather easier to write than plays’.
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He was lionised in fashionable and clever society.
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The verb "lionize" "to treat as a celebrity" suggests the idea that lions are deserving of attention, perhaps very fitting for the King of the Jungle.
Another meaning for PR
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Nevertheless, he is a flamboyant showman, fond of electric blue suits, who once turned up on a motorbike to wild applause at the Cannes festival, where he is lionised.
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Webber traveled from London to Jamaica where he was "lionized" by the members of the Legislature.
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Sadly, bullfighting is still very much alive in Spain, with the colorful posters covering every bare space of public wall with the lionized torero or bullfighter shown in regal splendor.
“Spain in Mind” Edited by Alice Leccese Powers (Vintage, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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As Toronto theatre critics dispense increasingly disparate opinions, some shows are savaged in one rag and lionized in another.
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John was lionised in the business press as a Scottish business buccaneer, who sometimes seemed able to walk on water.
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The chilling thing is that he and those who lionize him seem to want his predictions to come true.
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And then we will get lionized, which is the most dangerous time of all.”
State of fear
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There was either a desire to say that it was my fault, that if I had just not behaved so badly everything would have been fine, or there was a desire to kind of lionize me as some kind of hero figure.
A Writer, Not a Martyr
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Even as Stalin perpetrated crimes against humanity in his own country, Conquest explains, writers, thinkers, and artists in the West idealized and lionized him because the ideology he espoused held an intrinsic appeal for them.
Facing Up to Stalin
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The tenor was lionized in Vienna
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Lionized by the president and blackjacked by conservatives, the empathy scrap is furious.
Phil Bronstein: I Feel Your Pain, See Your "Empathy," and Raise You a Little EST
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Chaucer, who came of London merchant stock, grew up in aristocratic and royal circles, and he was one of the most lionized and richly rewarded poets of any age.
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After his death, he remained a key figure, both lionized and bowdlerized by the regime, with statues and shrines set up to celebrate him as a ‘champion of the Party’.
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I wonder what Harold Ford thinks when he sees one of the founders being lionized by some of the very people that find DLC a cussword.
Report: Hillary Has "Only" $20 Million For Primaries
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When I read about all the so-called progressives lionizing someone who in a fit of juvenile irrationality assaults our president, I remember how Saddam's son Uday 'lionized' a young man back in 2000, according Saddam's executioner, by having the young man taken to the Uday Huessin's private zoo and put into the lion's cage.
Muntadar al-Zaidi Did What We Journalists Should Have Done Long Ago
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But she is lionised by her mother as a juvenile intellectual.