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• v  love intensely
• s  showing adoration
• s  extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent
  adoring grandparents

• Members of his evangelical team would enter his hotel room before him, to search it for any adoring fan or tabloid bait that might be hiding out.
• A sizable chunk of their once adoring audience feels the same way about the Dixie Chicks.
• The girls earn $150 to $400 a night in salary, in addition to the perquisites and gifts that adoring customers shower on them.

• adore
• worshipful
• doting
• fond

News & Articles

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• San Jose: Nancy Pelosi booed, interrupted by liberal online activists
  An otherwise adoring crowd of liberal activists booed and interrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Saturday as she defended the Obama administration's electronic surveillance practices at a political conference in Silicon Valley.
  June 23, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News
• Shady's Night: LeSean McCoy hosts charity softball event in Lancaster - see photo gallery
  LANCASTER - For one night, there were no quarterback controversies, no training-camp horror stories or comparing and contrasting head coaches. It was just LeSean McCoy, a couple of his Philadelphia Eagles teammates and NFL buddies, and a house full of adoring...
  June 23, 2013 - The Patriot-News
• LeBron Sends Instagram Message To Haters
  LeBron James laid on his couch and taped a heartfelt message to his adoring haters.
  June 22, 2013 - WUSA 9 Washington, D.C.

Quotes

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• John McCain in Toledo Blade
  I sincerely hope that the next president is here today,Mr. McCain said. "My opponent, of course, is traveling in Europe, and tomorrow his tour takes him to France. In a scene that Lance would recognize, a throng of adoring fans awaits...
• Michelle Malkin in KSBW
  On her blog, Malkin called the protest "an abysmal failure." "The nostalgic, Marx-adoring organizers of Recreate '68 seem to have mustered no more than, oh, 68 bodies. Their presence here is dwarfed by the massive show of police, press, and...
• Stephanie Coontz in International Herald Tribune
  We've seen love in the White House before, but in many cases it was the adoring wife, along the lines of Nancy Reagan,says Coontz, a professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. "What the Obamas have is a jocular, playful love, a...