lionization

• “So I had aid and abetment in performing the little lionization which is obligatory on a visitor to New York; for the "Colonel's" comrade, my fellow-voyager of the Asia, came to the same hotel.”

  Border and Bastille

• “With the Academy attempting to attract more and younger viewers to the Oscar telecast with more popular and populist fare, critics' over-the-top lionization of a good but not great black and white silent film that no one has heard of is probably the last thing they wanted.”

  The Huffington Post: Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The Artist -- Who Needs 3D... or Sound?

• “Pakistani commentators have expressed shock at the public lionization of Qadri and the demonization of Taseer, who did nothing worse than criticize the blasphemy law and commiserate with a Christian peasant woman who was sentenced to death under it.”

  The Washington Post: 26 shots that sent Pakistan over the edge

• “Instead, we see the demonization/lionization of the two sets of relatives based on nothing more than whether their position agrees with that of the speaker (seeabove).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures

• “I revisit this subject because Time awarded me a miscast cameo role in its lionization of Mr. Bharara, in the highest traditions of their infamous "fact-checking department.”

  The Huffington Post: Conrad Black: Time's Fatuous and Egregious Coverage of Wall Street Prosecutor

• “The lionization of McChrystal in much of the reporting which ignored his egregious role in the cover-up of torture in Iraq and his key role in distorting the facts in order to politically exploit the "friendly fire" death of Pat Tillman, a true hero, has been a journalistic low point.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Scheer: General Discharge

• “The complicit lionization of Stevens by the Alaska State House, however, is a farce.”

  The Huffington Post: Alaska House Demands Canonization For "Uncle" Ted!

• “Deborah Kass's My Elvis, a parody on Andy Warhol's Elvis Presley as cowboy gunslinger via her own lionization of Barbara Streisand in hasidic boy student drag from the film Yentl, is a blatant transposition of gay-Anglo-male celebrity worship into lesbian-Jewish-gender ambiguity.”

  The Huffington Post: G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)

• “The obsequiousness, nonstop compliments, and endless lionization are all part of the external nutrition craved by the narcissist.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Obama Diaries

• “Later -- after hugs and hallelujahs, and the hoarse lionization by his classmates on the bus -- Foley stands alone on the sidewalk.”

  The Washington Post: The Apollo Kid: Teen guitarist Nathan Foley attempts to win a record number of Amateur Night contests

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