adulation

Before NYC Prep, reality TV stars were sources of entertainment, but never objects of envy or adulation.

Putin seeks similar adulation in Sochi and he must not receive it.

So here Obama is, craving security and adulation, but being denied both.

The audience was not yet done showering Simons with adulation.

Lafayette, more interested in his own nationwide tour of adulation, declined.

It is only the servile adulation of later writers that has pictured Bruce as animated by patriotism.

Lifted to the skies for an hour by popular adulation, he has been sunk into obscurity ever since by historic contempt.

He does not seem to have deserved much of the adulation bestowed upon him.

When she came to town for the season she scored a decided success, and all the leading Dailies joined in the chorus of adulation.

What you wanted was someone to satisfy all your vanities—your yearning for devotion, for adulation, for sense of power.