lionize, categorical. social-political tenor of the art world, heldentenor. Russia was “categorically against” it.

Russia Could Put a Nuclear Weapon Into Orbit This Year, U.S. Warns Allies

The U.S. assessments are divided, however, and President Vladimir Putin denied having such an intention, saying that Russia was “categorically against” it.

Stephen Gould has died aged 61. The American heldentenor had been scheduled for three major roles at this year's Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, where he had previously performed more than 100 times. At the end of August, he first announced the end of his career, before announcing that he was terminally ill with cancer.

斯蒂芬-古尔德去世，享年 61 岁。这位美国男高音曾被安排在今年的拜罗伊特理查德-瓦格纳音乐节上出演三个主要角色，他此前曾在拜罗伊特演出 100 多次。8 月底，他先是宣布结束自己的职业生涯，随后又宣布身患癌症，病入膏肓。

If Barney’s pictures of cloistered privilege in a largely white world seem out of step with the current social-political tenor of the art world, they continue to fascinate, rather like watching “The Crown” or “Succession.”

讀紐約時報 Sixteen Truthful Words （By WILLIAM SAFIRE Published: July 19, 2004），它說明：根據上周美國，英國的獨立報告，都肯定兩國元首判斷伊拉克積極、大力從非洲進核燃料的根據是有堅實根據的，倒是那些以告元首撒謊，而為媒體注意的「名人」（lionized accuse）說錯啦。

Two exhaustive government reports came out last week showing that it is the president's lionized accuser, and not Mr. Bush, who has been having trouble with the truth.
lionize, UK USUALLY lionise verb [T] 把…….捧為名人（to make someone famous, or to treat someone as if they were famous；assign great social importance to
例："The tenor was lionized in Vienna"）

Lucian Freud

Art Review

Lucian Freud Stripped Bare

By ROBERTA SMITH

Published: December 14, 2007

The achievement of the strenuously lionized British realist painter Lucian Freud has not so much been to break new ground as to dig incessantly deeper into the old. By doing so he has intensified our understanding of figurative painting’s familiar landmarks to the point of discomfort.

(lionize, UK USUALLY lionise
verb [T]
to make someone famous, or to treat someone as if they were famous)

Skip to next paragraph

Enlarge This Image

Museum of Modern Art

A 1981 painting of Mr. Freud's daughter Bella is among the works included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. More Photos »

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

The sale of the Italian government's stake in Alitalia took a bizarre twist Thursday after the company said it had received an 11th-hour approach from a group that included Singapore Airlines -- a claim that the Asian carrier swiftly and categorically denied.


Go to Article from The New York Times»


categorical
adjective
without any doubt or possibility of being changed; certain:
a categorical statement/reply/assurance

categorically
adverb
He categorically refused to take part in the project.