put on a pedestal
Example Sentences
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“Being put on a pedestal means you can’t move around too much,” Matfess said.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026
"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
I think that’s our relationship to artists and iconic figures we put on a pedestal and then have to go through the unwelcome experience of uncovering their bad behavior and disordered egos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
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
