hero worship
Example Sentences
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The hero worship was taken too far when first one fan, then another, then another raced on to the pitch to get a selfie.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
What could they teach us about the power and perils of hero worship in a community that has produced too few figures of Chávez’s stature?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Herbert wrote about his distrust — hatred, even — of hero worship and how it influenced Dune for the July 1980 issue of Omni Magazine.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
So yeah, we need to get rid of that sort of hero worship.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
In Danville they had made him the object of hero worship.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
