Hero Worship

We hero-worship athletes who perform tasks that do nothing to alleviate poverty and suffering but do raise individual hopes of fame and riches throughout ghettos false hopes for all but a very tiny fraction of those populations. ❋ John Perkins (2011)

So they project some weird hero-worship characteristcis on us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 (2011)

That and a wariness of hero-worship are both unpleasant to swallow -- because we need inspiration and the heart is rewarded by being able to give generously. ❋ Kent Annan (2011)

But will it inspire kids to continue their hero-worship into adolescence? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thomas Carlyle, in his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, assembled a team whose members might also have set off dismay in Carshalton. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To mention Neil Simon, a competent play constructor and joke writer, but nothing more, when speaking of Sondheim, whom I wish I couldn't hero-worship, is sacrilege. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Assange's actions as head of WikiLeaks should install him in the annals of infamy, not offer him hero-worship. ❋ Jonathan Cowan (2011)

Heroes are seldom given to hero-worship, but among those of that young land, young as he was, he was accounted an elder hero. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stroud (the Bartimaeus Trilogy) explores the consequences behind legend-worthy acts of glory and the power and peril of blind faith and hero-worship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Judith Flanders (2011)

[You know] [Ms]. [Lauren]? I hero worship her. ❋ ~castithandsome~ (2013)

[zezima] is [hero-worshipped] like a god in the MMORPG Runescape. This is becuase all of his [stats] are at 99 and he is insanely good at raising his skills ❋ Zach Kaspov (2006)