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hero-worship

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  1. love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
    Many teenagers idolized the Beatles

How To Use hero-worship In A Sentence

  • The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew. Who Said It Would Be Easy
  • Like his hero-worship of me, his success was part of my reward. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • There was a tinge of hero-worship in his attitude which might have evaporated had he realized he would never see Leo again. FINAL RESORT
  • The racing heroes he refers to are few and far between compared to the hundreds of soccer stars being hero-worshipped up and down the country.
  • The only real difficulty was for unlet tered yeomen to remember what the symbols on the gauges stood for-and this, indeed, was no more complicated a science than heraldry, which any hero-worshiping lad could rattle off in detail. The High Crusade
  • Further, the anxious call to adore the genius of a single artist lets this book tumble into the unalloyed hero-worship that is so frequently the pitfall of monographical studies.
  • I would be remiss in my hero-worship not to mention Marlon's darker aspects.
  • Stroud (the Bartimaeus Trilogy) explores the consequences behind legend-worthy acts of glory and the power and peril of blind faith and hero-worship. Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud: Book summary
  • Singer Brett Anderson inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.
  • She hero-worshipped her elder brother, and she was devastated when he died.
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