worship
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This image of hero worship anchors Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s staggeringly lovely “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” an indie take on the perennial saga of lost men struggling to return home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Let those who worship evil’s might beware my power… Green Lantern’s light!
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Economic opportunity, the ability to speak and worship freely and a strong work ethic have led many Americans to see the U.S. as a uniquely privileged nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Huanle's mother Wang Cong is a pastor at Zion Church, one of China's largest "underground" churches where some Christians choose to worship instead of government-regulated ones.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
It was a kind face; a face that sons could love, husbands worship, and daughters envy.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
It also revealed that I’ve been fibbing to myself: Much as I consider myself enlightened, being unmanly in an era that worships machismo does bug me a little.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“This is a church that worships Jesus. Loves one another. Seeks the good of their neighbors.”
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
Filipino woman worships green statue for 4 years, finds out it is animated character Shrek.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
She still drives her son insane with the way she worships the professor, but she’s not as infuriatingly unreasonable as Chekhov permits her to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Or maybe it’s because Kim worships Brooke Vega.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
His collections were worshipped for their emphasis on individuality.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
The image called to mind the golden calf of Abrahamic religious texts, worshipped by the Israelites to Moses’—and God’s—dismay.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
"If someone chants the name of Mother Bonbibi, she will save his life from tigers, snakes, and crocodiles," said villager Ashutosh Mandal, 63, referring to a deity whose idol is worshipped at temples.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Despite the abundance of material, it remains difficult to determine exactly which deities were worshipped.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
They worshipped figures in Staff God poses, lived in networks of vertical exchange, and had public architecture with designs based on templates from the coast.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Legend has it that the lion-headed figure protected the country from invasions and was worshiped as a god of war in the ancient Nubian kingdoms of Kush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
In it, a government scientist discovers that a scaly creature worshiped by island villagers as a sea god has grown to a monstrosity that dwarfs tall buildings.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
A leather-goods salesman from Brooklyn, N.Y., he worshiped the sun and loved nothing better than a “fresh burn.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Is it the genre’s front-row seat on the turbulent, provocative, culture-shifting lives of artists we’ve worshiped from afar?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
She loved the way he was with children, particularly those who worshiped him and came to the school pep rallies wearing a jersey with his number, 20, on it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Architecture is the most optimistic of art forms, because to create spaces for living and working, for worshiping and governing, is by its nature a positive act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
“They were standing, worshiping God. Some of them were clapping,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
But Rigney himself is focused on much more than worshiping Jesus and loving one another.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
It hit him: The roaches weren’t just honoring Boots—they were worshiping her!
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
A statement from the Abbey Church earlier said Widdecombe would be "missed and fondly remembered" and "many in our worshipping community knew her as a kind and warm character".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
It was to protect worshippers that Israel had asked people of all faiths to "temporarily abstain" from worshipping at all the holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City, he added.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
He believes in the power of film and the strength we get from the communal aspect of worshipping at the movie house.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
He is worshipping her through this act of cooking for her.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
I had a vague idea that being Christian had something to do with worshipping Yesu, a God who wore a crown of thorns.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
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