Sentence examples for pedestal from inspiring English sources

"To always be put on a pedestal as a hunk is slightly demeaning," he said (prompting the website Jezebel to headline a post about it with: "Shut your pretty little whine hole, Jon Snow").

It is hardly surprising that the market has been placed on a pedestal and that life outside of these cold financially-driven markets has been largely ignored by economists, including activities without which the economy and society could not function.

Both are snoots sneering down from a pedestal of their own construction.

I have always been very conscious of not placing my late-husband on a pedestal, but sometimes my subconscious still idolises him.

We must now finally and irrevocably take this reactionary and unscientific theory down from its pedestal.

Five years on, Capello finds himself on a similar pedestal in Russia.

Warren Buffett, the investment icon whose name is typically preceded by accolades, is being dragged off his pedestal by a dodgy insurance deal between General Re, a unit of his firm Berkshire Hathaway, and American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurer.

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?

Diodorus, who had never seen it, straightforwardly called it "Ozymandias", recorded the proclamation on the pedestal and said that this funerary temple "seems to exceed all others not only in the vast scale of its expense, but also in the genius of its builders".

The cartoonist of Corriere della Sera, a newspaper, caught the public mood with a drawing of Mr Renzi as Michelangelo's "David" and one passer-by telling another: "They've already put him on a pedestal.

In fact, her gaze is fixed south by south-east which, drawing a line in that direction from her pedestal, would cut through the waters of the North and South Atlantic, bypassing any lands European or African, but perhaps encountering St Helena several thousand miles south of Europe's most southern point.