"In an instant," says Ranstorp, "you are propelled from being no one to someone who is glorified and
lionized with poems, and you live on in this historical chain of heroic martyrs, being remembered and saluted far longer than if you had not undertaken this kind of operation."
He's been rather
lionized for his staunch criticism of the Pentagon war plan in Iraq, but his contextual history was missing from almost everything I'd read (and heard) about him.
Not exactly the same treatment Trent Lott received when he
lionized the party's senile scholar of racial segregation, Strom Thurmond.
In his day, Roig was
lionized as the composer of the famous song "Quiereme mucho," which the company performed as an encore and invited the audience to sing along.
It says a great deal about the current state of our nation that McCarthy is vilified and FDR
lionized.
While international-class ballerinas are
lionized in the dance community, few become household names.
The Peronist leader was
lionized internationally for beating back hyperinflation and ushering in historic growth, but Menem also contributed to the economic rot that caused this year's collapse.
But I do find it amazing that this man - who made headlines just a few months ago in Cairo by cynically becoming new best friends with Islamic militants so they could, together, thwart efforts to stem overpopulation - is now
lionized as "a moral compass for believers and nonbelievers alike." This is a bit much.
Morgan became established and was
lionized as a popular novelist with The Wild Irish Girl (1806), a paean of praise to Ireland.
Small wonder that Boccaccio was
lionized by the comediographers of the Renaissance, who made great strides in the endorsing of self-determination, passionate involvement, and the worth of all human beings.
The Spanish group
lionized him from the moment he arrived and gave three parties to celebrate his 99th birthday.
He spent a year in the Soviet Union in 1922-23, where he was
lionized by the leaders of the Russian Revolution.
It is a selection of silly-sounding ditties wrapped in relentless, tiresome rhythms aimed at recapturing the long-lost disco crowd that
lionized Summer upon her triumphant return from Europe in 1975 with Love to Love You Baby.
Baraka's later works have become increasingly polemical in tone, and his insistence on black separatism and the importance of eliminating the white race has led to his desertion by the white liberals who
lionized him even as he harangued them.
