idolatrous

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I am idolatrous, searching for false hope in the Gods of Perfect Bodies, the ones I’ve always wanted as my own, the bodies that I’ll never have.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2023

I have seen at first hand a variety of experiences where workers united in cooperatives and other forms of community organization were able to create work where there were only crumbs of an idolatrous economy.

From Time • Jul. 10, 2015

By the time of the English Civil War, church monuments were being smashed as idolatrous; wall paintings were covered with whitewash, brass plaques melted down for profit.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

Most were thought to have been destroyed after Spanish officials decreed them to be idolatrous in 1583.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010

It is an irony, that Adrian, who despised all the arts on principle, and looked upon Greek statues as idolatrous, had a more artistic monument than Leo X. of the house of Medici.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.