Meanings of lionise in English

Too often, statues lionise heroes who are already well enough known.

His supporters lionise him for walking through Baghdad without an entourage, handing out fliers.

Round-the-clock radio and television broadcasts lionise the army's virtues.

Perhaps this is so, yet England and its media continue to lionise particular forms of Englishness.

She was in London again in 1851, and was dismayed by the attempts to lionise her.

Egyptians now lionise the police.

The momentum and energy required to keep a contemporary scene going is instead used to lionise and mythologise the past.

Further on they stumbled over a small boy from the charity school who wished to lionise them over the whole building.

Ant-Man And The Wasp doesn't lionise individual sacrifice or exceptionalism -it celebrates those everyday connections and challenges we all have.

You can also sense a reluctance on the part of screenwriter Michael Mitnick to either damn or lionise his two leads.

Mikhail Gorbachev was lionised in Dublin in the course of his visit.

Degrading these groups and lionising domination-driven masculinity are time-worn traditions of patriarchy.

She was mocked, shamed and then lionised after a very public death.

He was lionised in fashionable London society, presented at Court, and pestered with invitations.

But Agha-Soltan was quickly lionised by an engaged online community inside and outside Iran.

He was acknowledged, fawned upon, in a way lionised.