idolized

He loved the movies and idolized Gary Cooper and James Dean.

And the twisted strings of the upright piano she bought soon after she moved to California with the woman she idolized the most: her mother, Ruby.

Trace said he could “barely recognize” his father as the man he once idolized, and that he and his sisters have been concerned for years.

Juno was about five years older than me, so I just idolized her for years.

There was a “toll on my ego and my self-esteem,” she said, noting the “extremes in this business” of being either idolized or hated.