1Relating to or practising idolatry; idol-worshipping.

1. 1.1 Showing extreme admiration or reverence for something.
   America's idolatrous worship of the auto

   美国人对汽车的偶像式崇拜。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It was also, I now realize, a matter of ‘training,’ of that blithe and idolatrous homage we pay to credentials, whether or not they are pertinent to the task at hand.
   • Folk Songs respected its sources, but it was not idolatrous of them.
   • Will Herberg argued that American civil religion essentially was idolatrous worship of itself, merely propagating an ethnocentric American way of life around the world.
   • It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
   • So long as business is held to have a commercial interest in behaving morally and responsibly by putting more ‘feminine’ titles on sale, the market will continue to be the subject of idolatrous worship.
   • On the other hand, while the characters may indeed be idolatrous, money-grubbing boors, the Americanisms they use in their speech suggest that these are values they picked up right here in the United States.
   • This fascination brings him to the IBM factory in Poughkeepsie, where he is struck above all by the spooky, almost idolatrous worship of the company's president, Thomas Watson Jr.
   • When nations intervene, manipulating grief, they offer idolatrous, nationalistic, vengeful substitutions for the grace of God and true community.
   • The son's room, then, may remain just that: an earthly shrine to an idolatrous attachment.
   • Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone.
   • Certain people, particularly those who have an almost idolatrous view of human reason, will reject this concept outright.
   • Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision.
   • Particularly in this society, where consumption drives the economic system and where economic values shape even family and church decision-making, the idolatrous dimension of mammon is both ubiquitous and subtle.
   • Lawyers today are rarely that idolatrous, but most of them salute the customary emblems of American civil religion.
   • Plans and strategies for growth can become idolatrous and result in questionable distortions of the gospel.
   • Utilitarian memorials, in Johnson's mind, were in vogue because they would guard against the great sin of traditional - that is, idle and idolatrous - memorials.
   • While the parallels between the traditional lover-poet and this artist identify Pygmalion as the consummate Petrarchan, the Pygmalion text also exhibits an anxiety over producing idolatrous art.
   • And because we too are tempted, sometimes we unfortunately offer idolatrous sports fans nothing but another form of idolatry when we scold in the name of Christianity.
   • As it has done on four prior occasions, the Senate should shelve this most dangerous and idolatrous assault on our civil and religious liberties.
   • But it's also no surprise that he reserves the most lingering, even idolatrous close-ups for himself, engorging the frame with his handsome visage.