" Oates ' father, a British immigrant, idolized Stanley Matthews, considered one of the greatest soccer players of all time and hoped that his son would adopt a pass-first mentality similar to Matthews.

His father, with whom young Lewis often quarreled, idolized the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Milkman's mother ( Ruth Foster Dead ) is the daughter of the town's only black doctor ; she makes her husband feel inadequate, and it is clear she idolized her father, Doctor Foster, to the point of obsession.

And it got to the point that we didn't know each other ..." A low point of her life was in August 1979, when her father, whom she idolized, died in Louisville while Loveless was in North Carolina.

Bartle idolized his clergyman father and displayed some guilt for not having followed in his profession.

The series revolves around a teenager named Chris living in 1980s Brooklyn in the ghetto of Bedford-Stuyvesant with his ill-tempered, surly, easily-paranoid mother Rochelle, lucky, admired, idolized younger brother Drew, cheap father Julius, and spoiled, deceptive younger sister Tonya, all of whom have been known to either domineer, mistreat, or agitate him in some way.

These were guys I had idolized for years.

They long were idolized, but historians in recent decades have become much more critical, especially regarding Disraeli.

Three artists he idolized, Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier, were especially well represented in his collection.

Upon her death, flags across the United States were lowered to half-staff in honor of the “ most idolized woman in America .”

In addition to her being newly praised for her pacifism, the 1960s and 1970s were decades in which a new wave of feminism idolized Rankin for her efforts in women ’ s rights.

Gordon Drummond died on 10 October 1854 at his home in England at age 82, as one of the forgotten war heroes and leaders from the War of 1812 that had seen Brock and Laura Secord idolized by the Canadians, while the Drummonds, Proctors, and Sheaffes of the war were relegated to obscurity.

Among Godowsky's admirers were such distinguished pianists as Vladimir de Pachmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff, who, according to Godowsky's daughter Dagmar, idolized her father's music and performances.

Some of the most prominent politicians of Israel were Betarim in their youth, most notably Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin, the latter of whom idolized Jabotinsky.

However even Greiser was wary, noting that many were elderly and urbanized aristocrats with a strong class consciousness, not the virile peasant warrior types idolized by the SS.

His achievements as U-boat commander were highly idolized by Joseph Goebbels propaganda.

Other seminal groups were Dingo, a pop-rock group idolized by teenagers, and Yö, whose " Joutsenlaulu " remains to the day one of the most played songs in radio and karaoke.

Jimmie Vaughan, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, is quoted as saying: " When my brother Stevie and I were growing up in Dallas, we idolized very few guitarists.

A group of psychopathic Transformers who idolized Sixshot, attempting to cause enough mayhem to impress him, the Terrorcons were dispatched to Muma-Obscura on a fact-finding mission.

Throughout his career, Toscanini was virtually idolized by the critics ( a notable exception being Virgil Thomson ), as well as by most fellow musicians and the public alike.

" Though sleaze rockers idolized Williams, most critics preferred his original style.

Reviewing the book for the Daily News of Bowling Green, Kentucky, historian Robert Antony described it as an " intimate, candid account of one of the most powerful men in the modern world " and " a haunting tale of intrigue and debauchery in the court of Mao Zedong, as could only be told by a member of the inner circle " and described Li's journey from an idealized patriot who idolized Mao, to a critic disillusioned by Mao's hypocrisy and philandering.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

Bardot was idolized by young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Wills acknowledged that he idolized Miller.

While Brooks's musical style placed him squarely within the boundaries of country music, he was strongly influenced by the 1970s singer-songwriter movement, especially the works of James Taylor ( whom he idolized and named his first child after ) and Dan Fogelberg.

He also made an appearance in 1973 on a short-lived variety show hosted by Bill Cosby, who idolized Groucho.

The Nazi state idolized Hitler as its Führer ( leader ), putting all powers in his hands.

Author Jim Bishop wrote that Booth " developed into an outrageous scene stealer, but he played his parts with such heightened enthusiasm that the audiences idolized him.

He is said to have been a demanding person, and disliked any direct publicity about his personality and did not wish to be idolized.

Lasse Virén idolized Nurmi and was scheduled to meet him for the first time on the day that Nurmi died.

Savage was idolized by the working classes, and his portrait hung on the walls of many houses around the country.

His early influences included blues and R & B singers Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton, as well as Elvis Presley, whom Jones idolized and with whom he would later become good friends.

This major figure in The Fountainhead epitomized the " second-hander " who – in stark opposition to the uncompromising and innovative hero of the novel, Howard Roark, and exemplified in real life by Frank Lloyd Wright, whom Rand idolized – adapts the classicist and historicist Old World architectural styles to the new American medium of the skyscraper, and then goes on to adopt modernism as soon as this becomes safely fashionable.

Since the 9th century, Widukind had been idolized as a mythical hero.

In spite of his association with the St. Louis Cardinals, Jack grew up a Boston Red Sox fan and idolized Jimmie Foxx.

Cassidy, like Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. idolized Barrymore.

The Flash of Earth-D, Tanaka Rei, was a Japanese man who idolized Barry Allen, whose stories only existed in comic books.

Irm Hermann idolized him, but Fassbinder tormented and tortured her for over a decade.

Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminondas wherever possible and does not even note his presence at the Battle of Leuctra.

A teen idol is a celebrity who is widely idolized by teenagers ; he or she is often young but not necessarily teenaged.

" He idolized his brother and wished to imitate his actions, learning to play guitar and piano at the same time Tim did.