heroize
Americanverb (used with object)
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We like to think we’ve learned something since then because hundreds of thousands took to the streets to heroize Black everyman George Floyd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2021
The book doesn’t heroize them for turning their backs on hatred or gloss over their heinous crimes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2020
If the mainstream vilifies aliens and outsiders as beasts or monsters, the extremes heroize beasts and monsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2018
Do not glorify crime nor heroize criminals by giving a false glamor and thus exciting sympathy.
From Time Magazine Archive
To "heroize" a boy in class every time he does a meritorious act will very likely spoil him.
From Principles of Teaching by Bennion, Adam S.
The perpetrator of this crime will probably one day be unmasked, vilified by the decent and heroized by jerks, and then fall into oblivion the moment they're shipped to prison.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2014
Or maybe the kids find themselves at the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which is housed in a public courthouse and includes sections on how popular culture heroized the mafia.
From Salon ● May 25, 2011
In two of his books, Roberts has heroized Traitor Benedict Arnold.
From Time Magazine Archive
You must stay and be heroized for a while.
From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)
Why there's young Acajou, who chiselled a very respectable hound out of a stray lump of marble, stealthily, by a candle, or more probably a spirit lamp, in his father's cellar—was discovered and straightway heroized.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
I don’t really believe in heroizing individuals, but Paul was, for me and for many, a hero.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2022
The movie’s insistence on heroizing him, though, is a puzzle, particularly because Welles was the more persuasive outsider.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2021
Yet given the recent assaults on journalism and the truth, this heroizing is also irresistible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
He was interrupted by applause, then added, “And heroizing such individuals I find to be unfathomable as far as what it is that this country needs to be able to do, again in order to keep itself safe.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015
I had to endure a bout of "heroizing," but something came out in the course of it that made me put my thinking cap on afterwards.
From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)
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