hero-worship

How To Use hero-worship In A Sentence

• There are several different versions of Napoleon's death mask in circulation - after his death many people, including hero-worshippers, wanted to own a copy.
• Yes, all heroic exaltation is dangerous, but the danger is not to the hero-worshipers, but to the hero.
• His approach is not to hero-worship the main protagonists, but to show the struggle of human beings in a historical context.
• This is hero-worship at its most extreme.
• More extraordinary is that as time went on, instead of criticism for incompetence and foolhardiness, Scott continued to attract hero-worship.
• Less than seventy years after the appearance of the first moving pictures, the shift from hero-worship to celebrity-worship was complete.
• Heroes are seldom given to hero-worship, but among those of that young land, young as he was, he was accounted an elder hero. Chapter 1
• For the man who has outsoared his fellows likes to remind himself by contrast of his callow days, before the hungry and fighting impulses had driven him down -- a young eaglet -- upon the sheepfolds of law and politics; while to the majority of mankind, even to-day, hero-worship, when it is not too exacting, is agreeable. Lady Connie
• Singer Brett Anderson inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.
• But in my daydreaming fifteen-year-old soul, the impossibilities inherent in such a feeling only served to intensify my hero-worship of William.