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The Emergency was also a stark warning against the perils of hero worship - something embodied in the towering political persona of Indira Gandhi.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

But maybe Cohn just wants to bask in Trump’s sycophantic hero worship of him?

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

A fitting coda to a childish slog of hero worship.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

“My intention throughout,” he writes, “has been to avoid hagiography and hero worship, telling Lewis’s full story with all its ups and downs intact.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

In Danville they had made him the object of hero worship.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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