hero worship

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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

A fitting coda to a childish slog of hero worship.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

“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

It marketed itself as another run of the mill hero storyline with its final trailer full of the typical hero worship, Avengers and .

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2023

In Danville they had made him the object of hero worship.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison