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After famously "taking responsibility" for the botched FBI raid in Waco in 1993, she was lionized for her refreshing readiness to be held accountable.
Manson is lionized for speaking the "truths" that no one wants to hear: that Christianity is false, that conventional morality is stifling, and so on.
All "seven martyrs," as they've been lionized, stayed Republicans and campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant in 1868.
Conservatives lionized him as a pioneer of conservatism before his time.
Martina Hingis and Pete Sampras won the women's and men's tennis championships at Wimbledon . Sportswriters lionized Hingis as a Wunderkind (she's 16, the youngest Wimbledon champ in a century) and Sampras as arguably the greatest player ever (he's on track to shatter the record for men's grand slam titles).