put on a pedestal
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We don't want to be put on a pedestal.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024
"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
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
In selecting Shiraz, a city in the southwest of Iran, Farhadi wanted to build a bridge between his contemporary saga about a man put on a pedestal and hero worship in antiquity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
The world did not expect an educated man to do anything; he was to be put on a pedestal and admired from a distance.
From The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts
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