Sentence examples for off the pedestal from inspiring English sources
He fears 'being set up to be knocked off the pedestal'.
"Boxing was a major, major sport 30 years ago, but it fell off the pedestal.
Main dishes from the regular menu slipped off the pedestal, too.
There's Adelle, Wesley's homely sister, who refuses to take him off the pedestal she placed him on in their youth.
More than once, his chief, James Roberts, remembers calling O'Donnell into his office and warning him to climb off the pedestal before he fell.
We don't want them to step off the pedestal and into the flotsam and jetsam of our own day-to-day interactions.
This will help you view her in a different light and take her off of the pedestal you have her on in your mind, helping you move past your feelings for her.
King comes off the saintly pedestal we've put him on and lives and breathes again.
"This show takes him off the art pedestal and brings you right back to the audaciousness of his time," Larry Gagosian, who represents Mr. Prince, said of Pollock.
The apogee of hubris Mr Reeves hopes came last year, when the press overdosed so hugely on the Lewinsky sex scandal that the public, in revulsion, knocked it off the moral pedestal on which it had supposed it stood.Can it scramble back again?
It's an example of the embarrassing need too many people have to create idols through whose successes they can live vicariously -- and then the eventual petty need to knock the famous off the pedestals recently erected.
