How to Use idolatry in a Sentence

idolatry

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  • To love things is a kind of idolatry; to use people is to place ourselves at the center of the universe.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • After all, both were places of idolatry, and Abraham and Isaac were living in Canaan.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Another one that’s been on my mind a lot lately is the idolatry of tech people.
    — George Gurley, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In his work and in this film, Souza conflates idolatry with history.
    — Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2020
  • But because the Israelites atoned for their sin of idolatry, God forgave them and offered Moses a second set of tablets.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Will the Broadway version be able to create the required level of idolatry?
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • This is idolatry, this willingness to blame God for the morally wrong choices of humans.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • These are not poems of regional idolatry; these are poems which grapple with the world and man’s place within it.
    — Tyler Malone, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
  • Lutherans like Bach certainly would have condemned as a grievous sin of idolatry any notion that the essence of a piece of music is, or turns into, the essence of God.
    — Michael Marissen, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Might a new life, and a new identity, even be obtainable for Hazel, in a roundabout way, from the idolatry being showered on her sister?
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • The first and second game lambasted consumer culture, while the third game depicted the dangers of pop idolatry.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • Puritan disgust with pagan idolatry was still alive in the 1770s.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • As with any novel featuring a distant object of idolatry, this one succeeds only to the extent that Margo is worth getting to know.
    — Kaitlin Phillips, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Ultimately this phenomenon is a kind of idolatry, an attempt to be as God is.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Simmons, in New York to promote this ultimate symbol of idolatry, suggests buying one now and setting it up as beer cooler until the time comes.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 19 June 2001
  • Two decades later, guitar music and rock and roll are still omnipresent, shapeshifting into new, subversive forms that can make Finn’s idolatry feel distant and dusty.
    — Luke Ottenhof, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Spencer itself is only a half-bad movie, promoting idolatry for a public that has lost respect for tradition and that has no sense of duty or sense of occasion.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Reflecting on these unforgiving fashion trends makes one wonder about the idolatry of youth in fashion.
    — Jess Sims, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
  • When the exodus is complete, and all that’s left is a cesspool of right-wing bigotry and tech-industry idolatry, will Musk finally feel satisfied with what he’s created?
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Frankfurter simply could not stop himself from engaging in Holmes idolatry.
    — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • American women glamorize French women to the point of idolatry.
    — Maura Walters, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In the meantime, secular liberal folk in the rest of the country who can’t imagine anyone liking, much less loving, Donald Trump should tune into this campaign, where his greatness is worshiped to the point of idolatry.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Such is the reality The Boys reveals behind the idolatry: greed and grift and outright homicide, all the while preaching exceptionalism and sanctimony to the outside world.
    — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 26 July 2019
  • The idolatry of experimentation has even spawned a sinister, for-profit industry, lurking in the shadows of the FDA approval process.
    — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
  • Most Americans know little about the monotheistic faith founded more than 500 years ago in India’s northern Punjab region that rejects the caste system and idolatry.
    — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2019
  • After all, her idolatry of Beyoncé on season 6 was ultimately a large part of her story arc.
    — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 8 July 2021
  • Rejecting the idolatry of growth means tilting the organization of our societies toward other social goods—health, for instance, and the freedom to exist on a planet that is not on fire.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The Sunday spectacular has been fed a steady and fatty diet of preposterous claims and Grecian idolatry by both networks almost to the point of digestive revolt.
    — Jerry Nason, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2021
  • In recent years, North Korean propaganda meant for foreign audiences has scaled back some of its idolatry.
    — Hannah Beech, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
  • As Petrie is obliged to work ever harder to suppress his skeptical thoughts regarding Elefantin, his testament begins to shade into idolatry.
    — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021

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