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To her he was everything that was fine and manly and courageous; it was the idolism of a child.

The song's lyrics and sounds fit Jessica Watson's profile, hard work, idolism, and compassion of herself and her 7 months of sailing throughout the world.

This is no longer the case and is a mere idolisation.

Perhaps there is a relationship between the great idolisation of Assange and the subsequent disappointment.

However, it did not stop at mere idolisation.

Howard's idolisation of his mother would be his downfall.

"He had an idolisation involving Peter Sutcliffe," Smith told the court.

The other obstacles are idolisation of money, a degraded sense of Justice, and a lack of religious inspiration.

She said that her approach to playing Frank was to "peel back the layers of idolisation and to think of the characters just as normal people".

And I am sick and tired of this idolisation of this psychological train wreck.

If ever there was a study in the duplicitous nature of humanity, and the hypocrisy of the idolisation of black sportsmen, then this is it.

The attempt to get the peasantry to overthrow the Tsar was unsuccessful, due to the peasantry's idolisation of the latter as someone "on their side".

The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone.

In this simple way, Spiegelman challenges his father's idolisation of Spiegelman's dead brother (who, supposedly, never "got in any kind of trouble").

Nothing is more pathetic than the idolisation of war and all its horrors as 'manly' and glorious by someone who has never even come close to experiencing one.

Sugerman discussed his idolisation of Morrison in detail, in part of one of his books Wonderland Avenue.

America meant big money, superb hospitality - at a time when Britain was still suffering the effects of wartime austerity - and plenty of idolisation from college students, usually girls.

"For the legitimisation of Kim, they will try to fabricate revolutionary achievements and idolisation," said Kim Tae-woo, president of KINU.

Lat paid attention to family life and children because of his idolisation of Raja Hamzah, a senior cartoonist who was also popular in the 1960s with his comics about swashbuckling heroes.

Reg's sensitivity and surprisingly poetic tongue gave rise to the question of Gordon Grimley's parentage, as does Shane Titley's oafish behaviour and idolisation of armchair bound slob Baz Grimley.

Three Houses (1931, Oxford University Press; repeatedly reprinted) is a short childhood memoir which simultaneously displays Thirkell's precociously finished style, her lifelong melancholy, and her idolisation of her grandfather, Edward Burne-Jones.

In keeping with the album's themes of narcissism and consumerism, the lyrics are an admonition against buying into idolisation and fame, and helping to perpetuate life in the public eye, including especially mass culture and show business:

This picture was actually titled "A Somnambulant Adventure" and Bob's intention was to add other elements to it which would create a jarring juxtaposition between idolisation of The Beatles' as gods of the pop world and their flesh and blood reality as ordinary human beings, but he was never able to realise this.

This idolization comes about due to her freedom, though.

Perhaps it was the sheer idolization and awe he radiated.

Without that doctrine, they argue, belief in the divine life within individuals turns into an idolization of the human.

My appreciation (which was actually idolization) first blinked at the light when I was about 8 years old.

It tells the story of a man's idolization of Batman since his childhood.

He's tainted that idolization the last two instances I've seen him pitch."

"Suddenly, they turned admiring into idolization, and the next thing it's going to be is worship," Wheaton said.

Chris's idolization of his father results in his devastation when he finds out the truth about what Joe did.

His admiration for Belisarius bordered on idolization, but he had never really given any thought to the general's physical characteristics.

She is becomingly humble and flattering in her idolization of Margo.

So what they said about Marie, their idolization of the demon who controlled her, didn't snarl him up with anguish.

Complaints about the idolization of role models who suggest unhealthy lifestyles are culturally endemic.

Sandip shows his love for Bimala through idolization.

Paris said amour courtois was an idolization and ennobling discipline.

Being a pop star hasn't interfered with Gibson's idolization of other pop stars.

But we should also realize that American culture, with its idolization of the rich and famous, will afford him more protection than the rest of us.

Cori's idolization of Sarah's oldest brother surprised him.

These previous attempts at idolization had failed, and they were stopped after Kim Jong-il's 2008 stroke.

"But I see it merely as a more calibrated, understated idolization of Englishness."

The idolization of Jefferson and the downgrading of Hamilton is a recent phenomenon.

Philip's idolization of Mike, and Mike's willingness to be a role model to Philip, are real enough.

In his memoirs, he recalled being struck by "the same idolization of the 'leader,' the same mass rallies and parades."

Sample quotes from a study's focus group exemplifying the intense idolization of famous Bollywood actors:

The idolization of Schwarzenbach came to be described as the Cult of Blake.