| Among fellow writers, Dickens has been both lionised and mocked. |
| Nevertheless, he is a flamboyant showman, fond of electric blue suits, who once turned up on a motorbike to wild applause at the Cannes festival, where he is lionised. |
| He was first lionised by the press and then held unfairly responsible for the subsequent slew of inferior rip-offs by other directors. |
| John was lionised in the business press as a Scottish business buccaneer, who sometimes seemed able to walk on water. |
| Messi was lionised because he self-deprecatingly suggested that Andres Iniesta was a more deserving recipient of the award he'd just collected. |
| But she is lionised by her mother as a juvenile intellectual. |
