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- noun Alternative spelling of
lionization .
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Examples
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In fact, Lévi-Strauss hated the western notion of art history and the kind of lionisation of an elite succession of individual artist-geniuses that we still indulge today (not least on this blog!).
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But Mancunian performance poet Mike Garry's interventions justify what might otherwise be a smug lionisation.
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But Mancunian performance poet Mike Garry's interventions justify what might otherwise be a smug lionisation.
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In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S.
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There are, however, problems with the blind lionisation of Ashoka.
Archive 2009-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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There are, however, problems with the blind lionisation of Ashoka.
Draupadi episode is the invention of later versions; Radha is the problem child of our national imagination Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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In a pesimistic way to use McWotters words the lionisation, the santification of Martin L King paved the way for Obama.
"Buy American. I Am." Ann Althouse 2008
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WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S.
President Petraeus? 2007
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The inquiring stranger is now a frequent figure at Lenox, for the place has suffered the process of lionisation.
Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) Henry James 1879
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Followed by lionisation by the Black Power movement.
The Guardian World News Hugh Muir 2011
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