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idol

noun as in admired person

noun as in image of a deity

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Like Prince, one of Martin’s idols, he is adept at many styles.

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When Jay walks past the only passenger who seems to be uninterested in the idol worship, sitting calmly in her seat, she asks, “Do you have any regrets?”

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As a result, even the fans in the cheap seats got time up close with their idols.

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That transparency has made him the idol of young Catalans - not because he embodies La Masia's traditional virtues of discretion and hard work, but precisely because he breaks them.

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Yet it resonates, albeit vague and unexplored, with biblical references to goat offerings and images of Jesus as a sacrificial lamb and the movie’s visual allusions to the goat-headed occult idol Baphomet.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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