hero worship
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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
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
So yeah, we need to get rid of that sort of hero worship.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2023
They help us to peel back some of the layers of legend and hero worship that obscure the whole story of American history.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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