Sentences with phrase «on a pedestal for»

Google images of Balpreet Kaur... he definitely has more wrong than an overabundance of facial hair... and people need to quit putting her on a pedestal for being the escaped beared lady from the circus vargus!

Billy Graham is a fraud... why he has been put on a pedestal for years is beyond me... he collected huge amounts of money from those big crowds... HIs son Franklin is worse... he pays himself more than ONE MILLION A YEAR... as head of the Samaritan Purse and other things!!

Fifth, Piper highlights the controversy over Confederate memorials which «too many of us feel like they belong in a museum for education instead of on a pedestal for celebration.»

I wonder why so many christians find it acceptable to put themselves on a pedestal for understanding something that unbelievers do not.

Ever notice that we often downplay the good that we do, while simultaneously holding another person on a pedestal for the exact same thing?

And whild these high protein diets do not seem to have too many adverse side effects, there is one very LARGE effect that no one is talking about... I think protein has been put so high on a pedestal for both weight loss and muscle gaining that you can begin to suffer from something I like to call «protein guilt».

I do believe that each form of exercise works in different ways and each person's body adapts differently but from experience strength training is up on a pedestal for me.

She had the Time Gem on a pedestal for years!

Among others, we meet Danielle DeVoe, a social worker whose challenging family life led her from a young age to dream of the power and magic of love, and Julie Wieber, standing on the pedestal for the second time, accompanied by her daughters and recalling through tears the memory of her late first husband, Jeff.

The gaming chair is installed on a pedestal for some added support and stability; and that also means that the chair doesn't have to be laying around.

Because Sundance's primary goal is to put talented new filmmakers on a pedestal for its industry to discuss.

But how would I find a sequel to a game that I have placed on a pedestal for two whole decades?

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But «winning» usually has the opposite effect: When an individual is publicly recognized for an achievement, he or she is put on a pedestal — and this tends to foster feelings of pride and self - importance.

It's that his personal history — not only the two divorces, but also the repeated affairs and the way he behaved during the dissolution of his marriages — makes him the most compromised champion imaginable for a movement that's laboring to keep lifelong heterosexual monogamy on a legal and cultural pedestal.

Some say marriage is a dissolving institution, just par for the course in this sea of modernity we're swimming in, and still others seem to hold it on an impossibly high pedestal, as though one's life doesn't begin until one's wedding day: when you find your soulmate, your «other half,» you will have found your ultimate fulfillment, the one who will dispel your loneliness forever.

When we forget this, we miss out on understanding the gospel and we set pastors up on pedestals; and when this happens it is dangerous for both the pastor and the church.

While we certainly need to be careful about putting theologians like Bonhoeffer on too high of pedestals, I still feel as though there are things about him that are both commendable and, if repeated by modern Christians, could help shape our collective character for the better.

By making Jesus God - like and by putting Jesus on a spiritual pedestal, we don't have to be bothered by Jesus as an example for how we are to live.

There is no room in God's church for the unapproachable, ivory tower personality who stands on a pedestal to deliver a message from God and then retreats back to his chambers in order to avoid mingling with the masses.

You can understand why that is, maybe, to someone like me, why it was hard on me when you tumbled off of the pedestal I lovingly kept propped up for so many years.

The missionaries also get put up on a pedestal so that when they return home on furlough, they have to conform to a certain standard of holy behavior which matches the pedestal that has been built for them.

He is compared to Hitler who put himself on a pedestal and condemned because others did not meet his criteria for a «perfect world.»

put pastors on too much of a high pedestal, though, and I think it must be frustrating for you.

It's time for the lunatics on the far left and far right to go away, and for the media to quit elevating them upon pedestals.

The cautious drafters bend over backwards to affirm that «we have no wish or desire to place this issue on a pedestal» and the statement closes by saying, «We need to work for the protection and preservation of all the kinds of animals God has created, while prioritizing human needs.»

Prominent, my gills, she was a nobody with no information for Atheism, so she figured a bunch of Christian radicals would put her on a pedestal, as their token Reformed - Atheist, and somebody would finally pay attention to her, so she went to the losing side.

Itâ $ ™ s comfortable and easy to let others do the thinking for you, to put them on a pedestal.

It's comfortable and easy to let others do the thinking for you, to put them on a pedestal.

But I guess I need to be careful not to place this new city on too high of a pedestal — I would hate for it to not live up to my expectations and wind up unhappy.

It is of course a blessing to have Mesut in the form he was in this weekend against Everton, but he is tough to handle, and those few rare outings where he is on fire are not consistent enough for me to put him on the pedestal.

But taking into consideration all the results thus far this season makes me hesitate; we were firing on all cylinders for one game, so let's not put ourselves on the pedestal.

Those aren't the greatest areas of interest for most teams, but it is definitely an upgrade for next season, and as players leave or retire in coming seasons, Bolles could become a premier left tackle and Davis has a ceiling that could put him on virtually any pedestal.

Putting them up on that pedestal and expecting the doctor will make everything alright is not improving the situation for anyone.

By putting their family on such a high moral pedestal, they now have horrible people like me slavering for «scandals» to pop up because a fall from grace is pretty entertaining when it's someone as smug and douchey as Jim Bob Duggar.

After all, this is the time of year when mothers are placed on a pedestal and honored for the sacrifices they've made for their children.

Like pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing can be too physically too much for us, our mental health gets on the pedestal when we do these motherly responsibilities.

Would you like a pedestal to stand on for your pity party?

At a protest outside the governor's offices Tuesday, Bruce Darling with the Center for Disability Rights displayed an award that the group fashioned for Cuomo that features a 5 - inch gold screw on a trophy pedestal.

Buhari said, «When you elected us into office, you did so with the conviction that our dear nation needed to be put on a new pedestal for the dreams conceived by our founding fathers, dreams that we have adopted to be realized.

«It was in the interest of the people and the determination to put our state on a high pedestal among the committee of states in Nigeria that we sought for re - election».

Mr Cameron told the Lib Dem leader not to «put himself on a pedestal» over MPs» expenses, after Mr Clegg repeated his claim that politicians from «both of the old parties» had not been held to account for flipping their second home designations to maximise their income from allowances.

On other occasions the dome was transformed into a giant beanie cap with propeller (1996), banded with a giant ring engraved with Elvish calligraphy from the opening of the Lord of the Rings movie (2001), and has served as pedestal for a full - scale model of Kitty Hawk, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers» flight (2003).

For one, neutral atoms cool the plasma in the transport barrier or pedestal on the outside edge, increasing ITG.

Thus, we designed and synthesized new molecular architectures based on the 3D Janus tecton concept, suitable for self - assembly on surface by supramolecular interactions such as coordination, halogen bond or hydrogen bond.3 Here we present two different model pyridyl end - capped molecules: the pedestal P1, and the naked pillar NP pedestal incorporating a cyclophane core.

You can splurge on a large glass case complete with a pedestal and lid, or swing by the nearest pet shop and snag a goldfish bowl for a fraction of the price — it's really up to you.

That doesn't mean they're bad or that I don't have plenty of uses for them, I'm just not sure they are worthy of the pedestal they're placed on in the healthy living community.

This especially holds true for people we put on pedestals.

His love for me was the validation I so needed and I put him on a pedestal.

Colorful Fuji apples are sitting on a small cake pedestal for height and dimension.

Of all of my teal treasures these shoes were on a pedestal that I thought could never be surpassed by any other item and they've been there for many of life's silly and splendid moments.