hero-worshipper

I've never been a hero-worshipper but your piece about John Cooke, the man who prosecuted Charles I, changed my mind.

Letters: Revolutionary guard 2011

I talked a great deal, and enthusiastically, as a hero-worshipper might talk, and it was obvious that he was my hero.

Chapter 20: A Lost Oligarch 2010

I find this especially endearing, as a long time fan/hero-worshipper from childhood.

Toast: Lindy 2006

I find this especially endearing, as a long time fan/hero-worshipper from childhood.

Food Out Lindy 2008

I find this especially endearing, as a long time fan/hero-worshipper from childhood.

Around Pittsburgh Lindy 2008

I find this especially endearing, as a long time fan/hero-worshipper from childhood.

Pizza at Roberto's Lindy 2006

She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.

Main Street 2004

I call him desperate, erratic, marginal, a "blind hero-worshipper" caught in paranoid fantasies with a fixated hatred for the world.

Judging Pound Tytell, John 1988

I'm no hero-worshipper, as you may have gathered, and my view of the military virtues is that the best thing you can do with 'em is to hang them on the wall in Bedlam - but I know cold fact when I see it.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I'm no hero-worshipper, as you may have gathered, and my view of the military virtues is that the best thing you can do with 'em is to hang them on the wall in Bedlam — but I know cold fact when I see it.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985