personality cult
cult of personality

The family's personality cult has been central to life in the north for decades.

"We need something that is not a personality cult around one very talented individual."

The costs for maintaining the personality cult have increased over time.

Many analysts now say a new personality cult is emerging.

To me it seemed more like a budding personality cult.

It's his art I really admire, the hell with the personality cult.

Like many dictators, he created a personality cult about himself.

He ran a Stalinist personality cult and a police state.

As Mao's personality cult grew, life became more difficult and dangerous.

As a result, a personality cult developed around both Perón and his wife.