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

• Among seedy and impoverished Socialist delegates the brilliant and wealthy young French Jew began to group around himself in something like intellectual hero-worship what has .
• But at the sight of Georges wreathed in victorious smiles, the usual hero-worship set in and all sense of gloom was rapidly dissipated.

• idolize
• idolise
• worship
• revere

News & Articles

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• Robert Downey Jr. Disappoints a Child into Tears
  When you grow up, hero-worship is usually reserved for athletes, musicians, actors, and the occasional political figure. But when you're a kid, you worship actual superheroes — something Robert Downey Jr. learned the hard way when he met Jaxson Denno, a little boy going on 2 who's obsessed with Iron Man. The problem with the meeting: RDJ was on location shooting The Judge , which has nothing to ...
  June 13, 2013 - Zimbio

Quotes

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• Julien Temple in Billboard
  This is not a hero-worship film,director Julien Temple told Billboard.com last November. "Hopefully it does show a real human being, because that's what Joe was, first and foremost. He certainly wasn't a saint of any kind. Hopefully, the...
• Salman Khan in The Hindu
  Sharing details of the film, Salman said, "I wrote the script of 'Veer' 20 years ago when the trend was of hero-worship. We need to have heroes who we can look up to. Let us the see the fate of my film, if it succeeds then it is everyone's film and...