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Usage examples of lionize.

The twenty-seven-year-old beastmaster was lionized, painted by Landseer on a commission for the Duke of Wellington, and was showered with money by young noblemen for instructing them in the art of taming.

But why is the entertainment industry lionizing him if he's picking on minority groups and putting them in a hateful category?

She was famous, she was lionized by grinning idiots (something which she disliked).

He enjoyed being lionized, and the next planet might have critics not so admiring.

It meant being lionized and free drinks and an uncritical appreciation of his banjo-playing.

While few Americans have heard of it, Britons know it as the congenial, rural town lionized on BBC radio’s “Letter from America”, broadcast by Alistair Cooke, one of our few unarmed residents.

Calm or competent leaders were indeed rare in doomed, overcrowded Vawnpolis, so Drehkos not only found himself lionized but quickly ensconced high in the command structure of the Crusader forces, as well as becoming the chief of the Morguhn refugee community.

Leaving Reynolds to be lionized, I lounged beside one of the ports and gazed toward Earth, pretending I was celebrating Nation Day in Abidjan rather than enduring this gathering of particle-pushers and inductive reasoners, most of whom were gawking at Reynolds, perhaps hoping he would live up to his reputation and perform a drugged collapse or start a fight.

Besides, it went on to explain, it was by nature already lionized, and had no need of gyrating, genuflecting humans to remind it of that fact.

The social rules of the day and this particular world made lionizing impolite.

It was Jeremy who took out most of the kids by the snack machines - and shot off Demi Harshawe's foot, too - as well as producing most of the trophy case casualties, but he repented and so he was forgiven and lionized.