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hero worship

Idolizing someone as if they were endowed with superhuman attributes. The term is used when a person is the focus of unusual adulation by another and does not necessarily imply that they display heroic attributes.



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Holding forth to an unimpressed crow and squirrel ("He's getting a fat head") and a hero-worshipping young groundhog ("Shush
Pamela Curtis: Swallow Groundhog Gets a Say by Flynn, Kitty / The Horn Book Magazine
On the flipside, comic books themselves have been foundering, attracting mainly the kind of hardcore, hero-worshipping collectors typified by The Simpsons' creepy Comic Book Guy.
Rescuing the Heroes by JAYATILLEKE, RUWAN / New York Times Upfront
But here the self-image is deliberately made ugly because Carlyle wanted to criticize his society of laissez-faire and utilitarianism by contrasting it with the ideal of the Arab hero and his hero-worshipping people.
Orientalism and Arab-Islamic history: an inquiry into the ... by Al-Da'mi, Muhammed A. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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