Amid all this madness, Mr. Mehta seems a pillar of calm and good sense, but even he has not had much to offer.
India is well advanced on a march to prosperity and greatness in the mid-twenty-first century; already, her stable pluralism seems a solid pillar of the coming Asian Century.
Now, of course, the pendulum has swung so far toward celebrity gossip and news-you-can-use on "NBC Nightly News, ABCC's "World News" and "CBS Evening News" that Ms. Walters seems like a pillar of old-school journalism.
Big John seems to be "a pillar of the community," the director said, a friend of policemen and the high school principal.
Social protection also seems to be a pillar of the fight against child poverty.
Therefore, the act of "forgetting" seems to be as much a pillar of human behavior as the act of remembering (I've never read Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past", though its theme of involuntary memory seems to be particularly applicable).
Along with Defense Secretary James Mattis, national-security adviser H. R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and several others, Kelly and Cohn seem like pillars of sanity in a time of chaos, a growing contrast to an unmoored President.
When you first meet him, Ai Weiwei seems as solid and impassive as a pillar of granite.
A pillar of luxury flats seemed glitzy, glamorous, macho.
She may no longer seem quite the pillar of poise, spontaneity, and reason without a background so reliably unhinged.
