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hero worship

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1. hero worship - Noun

2. hero worship - Verb

Meaning

admiration for great men (or their memory)

love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

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hero-worship

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Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay. Lucy Lawless

My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. Karen Duffy

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel. Simon Winchester

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature. Sydney J. Harris

Many teenagers idolized the Beatles Source: Internet

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