In times of danger or hysterical enthusiasm, we pick on a figure to elevate, adulate and, worse still, to trust.
Unattributed, Telegraph, 5 September 2004, Telegraph
reviewing Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen.Amazon
It would be wrong to adulate the late Arthur Miller.
Kate Bassett, The Independent, 22 May 2005.
Those who adulate the Virgin Mary tend to be fairly young or visibly old, speakers of Romance languages, floridly religious, prone to emotional display.
Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, 11 December 2004. New York Times
She was for almost two decades an icon of style, cultivation and glamour, admired by a deferential public in much the same way that they went on to adulate the Princess of Wales.
Ben Summerskill, The Observer, 10 February 2002. The Observer