hero worship
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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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