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Example sentences for: idol

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The 90-minute program included segments such as Kaufman chatting with his idol, Howdy Doody, and renditions of songs such as "It's a Small World."
He played in a Beatles-style band, then embraced the viola out of the despairing recognition that, on the guitar, he would never match the fireworks of Jimi Hendrix, his idol.
This is the home of a small Bhairav idol that is paraded through Bhaktapur in a chariot during the New Year’s Bisket festival.
More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.
De Kooning could have been thinking of his idol Soutine when he observed, "Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented."