Some people lionize even minor actors that have had very small parts in movies. From LearnThat.org.
After all, we lionize Sir Thomas More, and rightly so. From Wordnik.com. [The Underside Of The Virginia Blogosphere] Reference
"Readers want to lionize celebrities," explains Fuller. From Wordnik.com. [A New Guilty Pleasure] Reference
Let them lionize Reagan and demonize the Clinton years. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Personally Slams Obama Over Reagan Comments] Reference
All the people will just go wild over him and lionize him. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
The stories we watch matter; the stories we lionize matter. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Lundegaard: Why We Stopped Seeing Best Picture Nominees -- Part III] Reference
"Castro's the kind of guy that Kerry would probably lionize.". From Wordnik.com. [Jack Huberman: Rush Limbaugh is STILL Screwing Up America] Reference
The man we now lionize as a monetary magician began sensibly. From Wordnik.com. [Dirty Secrets of the Temple] Reference
They would eviscerate their enemies and lionize their friends. From Wordnik.com. [Writers and Mentors] Reference
As soon as someone dies, even Ted Kennedy, we have to lionize them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2010] Reference
George Lakoff talks of the "strict father" the Republicans lionize. From Wordnik.com. [Naomi Foner: Our Children Are Trying To Tell Us Something] Reference
Its coverage is intended to lionize and enhance the stature of Saddam. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, December 31, 2005] Reference
This is not someone that we want to lionize in the United States capital. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2002] Reference
I am not attempting to lionize Ma this is clearly the wrong forum for that!. From Wordnik.com. [China Cargo Cult Blues] Reference
Why don't we lionize politicians today like we lionize the Founding Fathers?. From Wordnik.com. [What Would George Do?] Reference
People lionize celebrities, or places like Stonehenge and the Eiffel Tower. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
From the man the MSM (except, of course, for Olbermann) lionize as a war hero. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Think Progress: McCain's Hypocricy on Veteran Support] Reference
But those who either lionize or despise Dr. Morgentaler tend to miss the point. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
They lionize the rich in the abstract because they want that aristocracy to exist. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’] Reference
There's a line from Stan Goff in the film, It's dangerous to lionize people like Pat. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Flanagan: An Interview With Amir Bar-Lev, Director of The Tillman Story] Reference
Millions of Americans lionize Wayne Gretzky, who is as Canadian as a bottle of "Blue.". From Wordnik.com. [The Road to the Future: the U.S.-Canada Relationship] Reference
For all those who lionize Chuck Palahniuk, I am sure this will go bring about blowback. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Fight Club] Reference
The latter accusation has only worked to lionize the neo-Islamists to legendary status. From Wordnik.com. [Abukar Arman: Somalia, Outside the Violence Box] Reference
True, it's as much of a mistake to lionize China now as it was to demonize it a year ago. From Wordnik.com. [Here's To Spring] Reference
To lionize something is to attribute an extreme amount of importance or significance to it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Being familiar with the military, I also feel no need to lionize everyone who's been in it. From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: The Shelf Life of John McCain's Honor] Reference
I am as baffled by people who lionize Heinlein as much as you are incensed about his critics. From Wordnik.com. [The Lensman's Children] Reference
The obvious conclusion is that only a culture rooted in greed could lionize this vengeful nerd. From Wordnik.com. [Building A Winning 'Network,' But At What Cost?] Reference
But rather than uncovering any answers, he's more interested in exploring our need to lionize Tillman. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Worshiped] Reference
The Australian prime minister is John Howard, not John Hicks -- despite how much you admire/lionize him. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
They lionize that traitor Ellsberg for stealing secrets, but they jump all over me 'cause it's Nixon. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference
And critics haven't always rushed to lionize his larks, no matter how traditional his templates have been. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Ludwig returns to Signature Theatre with golf farce 'A Fox in the Fairway'] Reference
Why is it we lionize men for doing women's work and otherwise take for granted what women do all the time?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Magazine] Reference
I think Peter would also want us to say we have to be careful that we not lionize ourselves too much here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2005] Reference
We lionize the action pictures of our youth while neglecting to realize that they weren't all that good back in the day. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mendelson: The Action Films Didn't Get Smaller, We Just Got Older] Reference
Herzog does not lionize Treadwell; indeed, some of the people he interviews are highly unflattering to the late grizzly man. From Wordnik.com. [A Grizzly Death: I review the documentary film "Grizzly Man"] Reference
I do not lionize him as other Conservatives do, believing him to have been wrong on both the North Korean and Iranian accounts. From Wordnik.com. ["Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week."] Reference
So why put somebody like Tucker onstage and In effect lionize her when she embodies everything you think is wrong with society?. From Wordnik.com. ['I'm Here. And We're Gonna Win.'] Reference
And if his supporters among “progressives” want to lionize him anyway, then they are undermining their own “anti-Zionist” cause. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Finkelstein Affair:] Reference
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