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Yet, though others made an impact on his style, Konchalovsky idolized Cézanne most of all and can be considered the founder of Russian Cézannism.
Degas was idolized by artists of several early 20th-century persuasions including Suzanne Valadon, Walter Richard Sickert, Maurice Denis, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Edward Hopper who visited his studio or emulated him from afar.
South African cricketer who, was his country's most successful cricket captain and a national icon, admired by his players, respected by opponents, and idolized by South African fans, but his professional career was ultimately overshadowed and his reputation destroyed by a bookmaking scandal in 2000.
Freeman had long been idolized in her homeland as a woman who pursued her dreams with great ardour.
Cagney and Pat O'Brien played childhood friends who grow up in diametrically opposite directions, one a gangster idolized by the neighborhood ruffians (played by a group of young actors who would become known as the Dead End Kids), the other a priest who wants to save their souls.
His mother he had idolized ; yet he found the spirituality of her love betrayed by sexual love.
Pärson idolized Stenmark and from a young age was compared to him, as well as to Pernilla Wiberg, whose nine Olympic and world championship medals in the 1990s had made her Sweden's most successful woman skier.
As a teen, he immersed himself in conservative politics: he idolized American pundit William F. Buckley, and during his time at Trinity College, University of Ontario, he displayed a poster of U.S. Pres.
In old age he was idolized as an incomparable public servant the Great Duke.
The purity of Reinmar's rhymes, the evenness of his rhythms, and the fastidious taste that rejected any phrase or emotion that might offend courtly sensibilities made him idolized by his contemporaries as the "nightingale" of his day.
The American people idolized Washington, and he played his part artfully, striking a balance between "too free an intercourse and too much familiarity," which would reduce the dignity of the office, and "an ostentatious show" of aloofness, which would be improper in a republic.
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The primary grammatical function of "idolized" is as a verb in the past tense or as a past participle . It describes the act of holding someone or something in extremely high regard, often to the point of reverence. Ludwig provides various examples demonstrating its proper usage in sentences.
Expression frequency: Very common
