lionized
Meaning
of Lionize
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Americans are condemned as Nazis.
Erdoğan’s anti-Western incitement, religious rhetoric, and rejectionism are popular with the same subset of Muslims who once lionized without any sense of contradiction Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, and Osama bin Laden.
Artificial intelligence is seen as an inaccessible and intimidating field by many outsiders, who don’t feel that they have a way to evaluate claims, particularly from lionized companies like Google.
Ironically, I had a drawn debate with Ghehteb on this subject where he lionized IA, tarnishing people like BeraKi G.SElassie. I was making the same argument.
Jackson Pollock who pioneered splatter painting, dispensing with a paint brush altogether, soon became lionized as the angry young man in a large spread in Life Magazine.