How to Use hero worship in a Sentence

hero worship

noun

• He objects to the unthinking hero worship of great athletes by their fans.
• At some point over the years, the hero worship wore off.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
• The Couric episode highlights the perils of hero worship.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• This was hero worship on steroids, with a strong filial twist.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• The whole book feels like a teeter tot between the author’s own hero worship of the subject and his gawking at the tragedy.
  — Jason Diamond, Bon Appétit, 9 Nov. 2022
• For my generation, there’s a bit of hero worship that went along with Sam.
  — Peter Libbey, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Now, here’s the thing: Liberals tend to feel funny about hero worship.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• At this point in their reign as the world’s biggest band, the members of BTS are accustomed to hero worship and nervous fans.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
• There’s a scene in which the character is wheeled onto the ice before a Bruins game, where the crowd smothers him with hero worship.
  — A.o. Scott & Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2017
• But the hero worship of health care workers only goes so far to protect them from mental anguish.
  — Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2020
• Well, speaking of Roosevelt here, Joe Biden’s got a real hero worship of Roosevelt.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 11 June 2022
• To the credit of Hallström and the two lead performances, Hilma embraces complexity and has no use for pedestals or hero worship.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2023
• The genre has also inspired a level of hero worship some observers describe as simply bonkers.
  — Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• His adoration of John Huston can be seen as both hero worship and misogyny.
  — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• Others say a culture of hero worship and a fear of social repercussions have allowed misconduct to fly under the radar for years.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 July 2020
• What energies might substitute for those once spent on hero worship?
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
• But asking them feels right in line with the series-long quest to interrogate the all-American project of unthinking hero worship.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
• Yet the band do a good job of keeping any hero worship at bay, maintaining a healthy level of respect and cheerful irreverence.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• In the past couple of days, Bryant stories have become meta stories, about memory and reckoning and hero worship and heroes.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2020
• The explanation: Peppa is clearly a gay pop icon who deserves hero worship.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 29 July 2019
• Your skillful leadership may be on display in late September and could infect others with a bit of hero worship.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 June 2021
• The odd logic of hero worship, however, is how quickly one can so easily become the focus of contempt.
  — Wired, 17 Oct. 2019
• The show’s second season, which ran last fall, earned high marks for storytelling and its use of humor to also make a statement on social media, hero worship and the oppressive forces of the elite.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 Aug. 2021
• The hero worship has a slippery quality here, with a less cheerful purpose than the sincere devotion of Homecoming or Into the Spider-Verse.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 July 2019
• In selecting Shiraz, a city in the southwest of Iran, Farhadi wanted to build a bridge between his contemporary saga about a man put on a pedestal and hero worship in antiquity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• Dawn’s hero worship of Bill is complicated by their having slept together.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• Police shows have struggled to adapt to a post-George Floyd world in which audiences have less of an appetite for uncritical hero worship where law enforcement is concerned.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022
• Here Amy's selfishness is revealed as hero worship of Jo and also as a burning need to be seen over the overwhelming personalities of her sisters.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
• Fans of Bourdain-style travel and food writing — pop culture asides, sarcasm, jaded irony, a little bit of hero worship — might be disappointed.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• The movie, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, is marked by some unhinged brutality and more than a little hero worship of a villainous character.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 2 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024