put on a pedestal
Example Sentences
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"It is surely worth considering who we, quite literally, put on a pedestal and why," its director of policy, Alesha De-Freitas, told BBC News.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024
Now she is being put on a pedestal and having candles and flowers and meals.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024
A box with three glass walls has been put on a pedestal in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.
From Reuters • Apr. 30, 2023
I think that’s our relationship to artists and iconic figures we put on a pedestal and then have to go through the unwelcome experience of uncovering their bad behavior and disordered egos.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2023
Previously love, better idealized by the Minnesänger than by the minstrel, had been put on a pedestal from which convulsive conditions shook it.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
