idolization

Example Sentences

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To them, he is a demigod, his idolisation of mythical proportions.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025

This kind of idolisation of a leader is alien to South Korea's younger generation who are not so easily seduced by North Korea's arrivals.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2018

In itself, her idolisation of Dinah Washington and the Ronettes distinguished her from almost all newly minted pop singers of the early 2000s; her exceptionally-susceptible-to-heartbreak voice did the rest.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2017

Young Charlie's idolisation of her uncle slowly turns to suspicion as she gets the feeling that there might be a secret behind his smile.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2012

All this morbid watchfulness and—and idolisation, or whatever you like to call it—— I can't endure it any longer!

From John Gabriel Borkman by Archer, William