hero worship
Example Sentences
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Instead, “Him” wonders what kind of spiritual practice it is: hero worship or a sinister cult?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
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
“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
Not everyone fell for the von Braun hero worship, however, including several prominent Jewish comedians.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2023
They help us to peel back some of the layers of legend and hero worship that obscure the whole story of American history.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
