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Examples of lionise
lionise
This London four-piece lionise the lo-fi, celebrate scuzz and fetishise fuzz.
From the guardian.co.uk
What happened to the old fashioned notions you lionise was house price hyperinflation.
From the guardian.co.uk
Prescriptivists and textualists both tend to lionise older authors and older patterns of usage.
From the economist.com
It's one thing to lionise executives of successful companies that provide innovative products or services.
From the economist.com
We lionise its ideals and lament its failings.
From the smh.com.au
The inhabitants of areas governed by forest law loathed it, and would have been likely to lionise anyone who flouted it.
From the guardian.co.uk
Others lionise open-source stars, such as Linus Torvalds, who wrote the first version of Linux, a popular operating system.
From the economist.com
Why go to all this trouble when other German companies-Allianz, Siemens, HypoVereinsbank-simply lionise their main man on the managing board and call him chief executive abroad?
From the economist.com
As the depressing antics of these young millionaires are revealed in all their lurid detail, The Secret Footballer, whoever he is, prompts a fierce reassessment of who we lionise as heroes.
From the metro.co.uk
- Lionize: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"
- (Lionisation) X-inactivation (also called lyonization) is a process by which one of the two copies of the X chromosome present in female mammals is inactivated. The inactive X chromosome is silenced by packaging into transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin. ...
- Alternative spelling of lionize
