put on a pedestal
Example Sentences
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It’s interesting to see a man who is put on a pedestal by the world being taken down to his inner child by the person who knows him the most.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024
Now she is being put on a pedestal and having candles and flowers and meals.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 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
The sense of responsibility isn't lost on them, but Gavin carefully rejects the notion that Muna should be put on a pedestal.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022
Previously love, better idealized by the Minnesänger than by the minstrel, had been put on a pedestal from which convulsive conditions shook it.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
