(1) 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.(2) 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.(3) Folk Songs respected its sources, but it was not idolatrous of them.(4) When nations intervene, manipulating grief, they offer idolatrous , nationalistic, vengeful substitutions for the grace of God and true community.(5) 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.(6) 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.(7) 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.(8) 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.(9) Certain people, particularly those who have an almost idolatrous view of human reason, will reject this concept outright.(10) 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.(11) 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.(12) Lawyers today are rarely that idolatrous , but most of them salute the customary emblems of American civil religion.(13) Plans and strategies for growth can become idolatrous and result in questionable distortions of the gospel.(14) 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.(15) Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision.(16) Will Herberg argued that American civil religion essentially was idolatrous worship of itself, merely propagating an ethnocentric American way of life around the world.
