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Shabby, but unsurprising, since McCain's whole campaign is based on War Hero-worship, and Faux News-fanned rage ...
McCain Campaign Accuses Obama Camp Of Coordinating With Webb To Attack McCain 2009
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IDENTIFICATION: You can vicariously take comfort from the successes of someone else Hero-worship.
Archive 2007-03-01 James Killus 2007
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IDENTIFICATION: You can vicariously take comfort from the successes of someone else Hero-worship.
Sublimation James Killus 2007
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I had read his "Hero-worship," and "Past and Present," and had formed a high opinion of his literary abilities.
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown
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Hero-worship is natural to the human soul, and the miscellaneous group of women and children scattered over the settlement, found in Adèle a strong, joyous, self-relying spirit, able to help them out of their difficulties, who could cheer them when down-hearted, and spur them up when getting discouraged or inefficient.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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Hero-worship leads to the hoarding of many things, including bark of trees, stones, mortar, old rags, and hair; and it is little wonder if Grace found the latter tendency rather inconvenient.
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"Hero-worship endures for ever while man endures."
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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Hero-worship had familiarized the minds of the Greeks with the idea that a man by illustrious deeds can become a god, and contact with the Orient made them ready to accept the grosser form of apotheosis by which divine honours were offered to the living (Boissier, La religion romaine I, 112).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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+ Hero-worship properly speaking, e.g. in the Odyssey.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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[185] _Heroes and Hero-worship_, by Thomas Carlyle, lecture i.
The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913
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