How To Use Hero-worship In A Sentence
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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.
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Yes, all heroic exaltation is dangerous, but the danger is not to the hero-worshipers, but to the hero.
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His approach is not to hero-worship the main protagonists, but to show the struggle of human beings in a historical context.
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This is hero-worship at its most extreme.
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More extraordinary is that as time went on, instead of criticism for incompetence and foolhardiness, Scott continued to attract hero-worship.
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Less than seventy years after the appearance of the first moving pictures, the shift from hero-worship to celebrity-worship was complete.
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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
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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
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Singer Brett Anderson inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.
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But in my daydreaming fifteen-year-old soul, the impossibilities inherent in such a feeling only served to intensify my hero-worship of William.
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With the unashamed hero-worship we seem to be displaying here, surely Bozza's bandwagon is picking up speed to become an irresistible force?
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Mr. Jeal is similarly generous to the demons that drove Henry Morton Stanley and puts his search for, and hero-worship of, Livingstone in context, making his famous staged meeting, "resplendent in pith helmet and white flannels," mounted on a stallion, with the Stars and Stripes flying, touching and admirable rather than vainglorious.
To the Source
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The hero-worshipper is gradually changing from the savage to the civilized conception of his divinities.
Elihu Root - Nobel Lecture
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He hero-worships his elder brother.
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Thomas Carlyle, in his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, assembled a team whose members might also have set off dismay in Carshalton.
Unthinkable? Horrible heroes | Editorial
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To be thrown so intimately with this distinguished and stately old lady, and to hear from her own lips, told with a mother's eager warmth, delightful home gossipry of the bold leader of the famous Pamunkey expedition, was an incident that appealed most strongly to the hero-worshiping, enthusiastic temperament of this young girl.
War-time sketches : historical and otherwise,
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The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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Together, Hilliard and Rathman produce a sagacious survey of the tradition of hero-worship, and foster insightful tension between conventional and unorthodox imagery of virility.
Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20)
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The local youth hero-worship and follow him unquestioningly as he sets an example of destruction of a life full of promise by killing brain cells in search of the apparently seductive allure of petrol-fuelled nirvana.
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Now this is no doubt a very comforting idea for those of us who harbor fantasies of romantic individualism and hero-worship, but I don't think it's the way architecture actually gets made in the real world.
An Interview with Richard Rayner about Cloud Sketcher
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`Of course your fanatical attempts to make me happy sprang not from hero-worship but from insecurity.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Lacking any argument of any substance, the troll is reduced to pretending that exaggerrated caricatures of hero-worship are real, for the purpose of ridiculing the straw characters who hold those phony beliefs.
Think Progress » Obama, 3 years ago: ‘I will judge my first term as president based on’ whether we delivered health care.
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A self-confessed hero-worshipper, he adroitly patched into a network of national self-regard and milked it for all it was worth.
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She hero-worshipped her elder brother, and she was devastated when he died.
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Singer Brett Anderson inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.
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Stroud (the Bartimaeus Trilogy) explores the consequences behind legend-worthy acts of glory and the power and peril of blind faith and hero-worship.
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud: Book summary
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I would be remiss in my hero-worship not to mention Marlon's darker aspects.
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Further, the anxious call to adore the genius of a single artist lets this book tumble into the unalloyed hero-worship that is so frequently the pitfall of monographical studies.
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The only real difficulty was for unlet tered yeomen to remember what the symbols on the gauges stood for-and this, indeed, was no more complicated a science than heraldry, which any hero-worshiping lad could rattle off in detail.
The High Crusade
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The racing heroes he refers to are few and far between compared to the hundreds of soccer stars being hero-worshipped up and down the country.
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There was a tinge of hero-worship in his attitude which might have evaporated had he realized he would never see Leo again.
FINAL RESORT
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Like his hero-worship of me, his success was part of my reward.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
