Hadria's hero-worship had suffered a severe rebuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

People like you, on the other hand, hero-worship her.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

LOL with your hero-worship and Hillary Hatred, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Tensions In Camp Hillary Focus On Pollster Mark Penn] Reference

As for me I adored him with whole-hearted hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference

Bob Shieffer has a case of hero-worship for John McCain.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Robocalls From McCain Campaign And RNC Slam Obama's Patriotism, Charge He Put "Hollywood Above America"] Reference

I hereby dedicate my life to hero-worship of Tim Armstrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [I hereby dedicate my life to hero-worship of Tim Armstrong] Reference

It's about America, not hero-worship of the President-elect.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Stimulus Bill Drops, Obey Controls High Expectations -- and Obama] Reference

Infantile hero-worship is very unbecoming an adult, Michael.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech] Reference

The latter was closely bound up with polytheism and hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

People, we have got to get our hero-worship of athletes under control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raina Disapproves: How Police Handled the Roethlisberger Rape Allegations] Reference

From hero-worship, he passed "to strong rulers, and saviours of society.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs of Thought] Reference

The Bibliotaph habitually indulged himself in the practice of hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

And there is no hero-worship in the world like a boy's worship of a boy-hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

It doesn't make sense, and the insipid hero-worship of McCain is embarassing.    From Wordnik.com.  [WaPo's Richard Cohen: McCain's Flip-Flops Matter Less Than Obama's Because McCain Was POW] Reference

Paris admires her deistical authors and makes them the objects of hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

Your cowardice is exceeded only by your naive, fawning, infantile hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech] Reference

Ain't it funny how so many of us do have serious hero-worship crushes on Obama?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Union Drops New Mailer In Battlegrounds Hammering McCain On Health Care] Reference

The little daughter had grown up in an atmosphere that fostered her hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

His love for his father was not an ordinary filial affection, it was a hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

And all of them regarded Joscelin with a desperate mix of hero-worship and contempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Another writes, "Another example of how truly silly the hero-worship of Obama has become.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2009] Reference

Sadly surprised to find he has such an intractable, infantile hero-worship of Bill Clinton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards: Bill Has The Right To Campaign For Hillary] Reference

The father of a family and husband of a federated club woman has no business with hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

There is a vast amount of hero-worship to-day which reminds us too much of that shout for Barabbas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

Such dire transformation ensues as reminds us of a certain hero-worship which Milton has celebrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference

You just assume a whole lot of things about anyone who does not agree with your hero-worship of Ralph Nader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

One peculiar feature of the Afrikander character is the complete absence of anything approaching hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

No mere egoist could have been so faithful in his hero-worship or so unpretentious in his allusions to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

It was well enough for a stormy past, but it may not be so well for the future, that man is prone to hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

That passionate need of worship -- hero-worship it has been called -- is a primal, universal instinct of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

The public which he dazzled and outwardly despised has no credulity left for any further hero-worship of such a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

His can-do style has inspired near hero-worship (most notably among his huge constituency of middle-aged housewives).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man In Charge] Reference

I found out my rival's name, and would have been willing, in the enthusiasm of my hero-worship, to resign anything to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

Glory was surprised to realize how much she'd miss Englor and his weird combination of pragmatism and starry-eyed hero-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warslayer]

There was none of that servility which Mr. Carlyle has attempted to dignify with the name of "hero-worship," for the rich man was rather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference