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Anyone who would lionize such a person is only saying something about himself.

After all, in his time a visitor from the past would have been lionized.

It would serve no purpose but to lionize the man.

His own urge to lionize the man from the future had brought this trouble upon him.

Makeup artists are being lionized, and employed, as never before.

Here she received a brilliant reception and was much lionized during the season of 1813.

He has even lionized the July 7 bombers as the "fantastic four."

Conservative critics use the occasion to lionize Reagan some more.

I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionize me.

Leaders of yesteryear have often been lionized upon their death, sometimes by people who had reason to feel less than warm toward them.

The male birds were lionized for their ferocity in battle.

Football players are lionized as the nobility of America's sports pages.

Dreyfus was lionized by the left, and went home to the grand apartment.

Conservatives lionized him as a pioneer of conservatism before his time.

All of this is not just to lionize one little West Side restaurant.

Then, after the initial surprise, he or she is lionized as a genius investor.

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, firefighters and police officers were lionized.

Confederate soldiers were lionized and a culture of defiance flourished.

All to force me into buying a phaeton and pair for her to lionize in!

In contrast to the children on the rebel side, kids fighting for the Government have no trouble going home - indeed, they are lionized.

He wants to be left alone, not lionized.

They almost all lionize restaurant critics or food writers.

By the mid-1970's, he was exhibiting and being lionized all over the world.

He was demonized on the left and lionized on the right.

The current tendency appears to be to lionise him; popular film and other media have certainly contributed to his appeal.

The City Hall was packed and the press were ready to lionise the winners.

Indeed, we lionise the local newspaperman as a bulwark against local corruption".

During the first third of the film, Barton speaks constantly of his desire to lionise "the common man" in his work.

If you are a white rapper with a modicum of talent like Eminem , great white poets like Seamus Heaney will lionise you.

The untimely passing of such a young and promising representative during the first term of their administration provided Fianna Fáil with an opportunity to lionise their struggle and achievement.

The Shia-led regime is highly sensitive to the re-emergence of any symbols that might lionise the remnants of the Ba'athist rank and file, which still orchestrates bombings and assassinations every few days.

Groups of party faithful will gather to sing "Red" songs; cinemas will show the state's latest star-studded propaganda epic, The Founding of a Party, while newspapers and television stations will lionise the party's achievements.