Sentence examples for pedestal like from inspiring English sources

Two men in suits, sipping drinks, walked past one of the watches, mounted on a pedestal like a museum piece.

In the center of the room stood a glass vitrine on a black pedestal, like the aftermath of a magic trick.

"People put the Devil of Ramadi on a pedestal, like a god, but here we were, crying on each other's shoulder," Brady told me.

Rivera's best works are political, but the next-best are stirringly sexy, like a woman's torso carved from a log that floats from its pedestal like a dreamboat.

It is a life-size, extraordinarily realistic, cast-bronze figure of a woman in a loose black shift standing on a matte black pedestal, like a sidewalk performer pretending to be a statue.

Through Oct. 22 The single piece in Frank Benson's show is as fascinating conceptually as it is visually: a life-size figure of a woman standing on a matte black pedestal like a sidewalk performer pretending to be a statue.

Together they create, and seem to grow out of, an almost geometric, pedestal-like volume.

The pedestal-like machine also has ports for medical devices, such as a stethoscope and ultrasound.

For example, his Palais Municipal rests on four pedestal-like guardhouses, demonstrating that society is supported by law.

The pedestal-like pieces, made mostly from chipboard and mounted on fit-together platforms, suggest a low-tech model for a city.

More than merely stiff, with armor-plated bodices, icy satins and pedestal-like hems of ruffles, there was something predatory about many of these dresses, a kind of vulture couture.