Sentences with phrase «on a pedestal so»

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.

I picture each of these comments setting him an inch higher on a pedestal so that when he is challenged next time (and can't get some... -LCB- read more -RCB-

It puts your tablet on a pedestal so... I don't really know why.

The gallery's inaugural exhibition, Behind the Scenes, features paintings from the DMA's collection installed on pedestals so that they are visible from both front and back.

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So come on down off your pedestal, you're ignorance doesn't show intelligence, it actually shows a lack of it.

One of the things I fear about our modern Christian «leaders» so many put on a pedestal, is their political pandering on these sorts of topics.

But we were the ones that placed them on the pedestal of impossible expectations, then we often work hard to keep them propped up there, and so of course it hurts when they tumbled right off.

I never claimed to be Christian, nor do I ever want to, since doing so usually puts me on the same pedestal as ignorant individuals such as yourself, sedreck.

We generally believe in evolution, and so do not nearly place ourselves on the same kind of pedestals that evolution deniers do by thinking that they are modeled on some perfect being.

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.

As so very often, we have picked a virtue (or quasi-virtue) that we like the sound of - in this case open - mindedness - and placed it on an artificial pedestal, abstracted from any context that might help us come to a considered judgment about its merits in individual circumstances.

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.

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

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.

He isn't big enough or brave enough to put Arsenal up on that pedestal, but it's also one of the reasons he's stayed so long.

There are so many put on a superstar pedestal and they have done nothing to merit that status in their careers.

So many times we put celebrities on a pedestal and we view them as being so different than us but they breastfeed their babies, they go to grocery storSo many times we put celebrities on a pedestal and we view them as being so different than us but they breastfeed their babies, they go to grocery storso different than us but they breastfeed their babies, they go to grocery store.

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.

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».

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

Also, that pedestal that the planter is on is so unique!

I thought they each deserved a pedestal, so I placed them on top of vintage crocks and added some straw for a farmhouse feel.

Remember, don't put yourself so high up on a pedestal that you end up there all alone.

I may be putting this film on a higher pedestal than it deserves, by stating that the sole reason this film is so good is due to the fact that the cast works terrifically together, but when a film desperately needs to do that in order for the story to work, not much else is needed here.

Snowden isn't a movie out to present everything from different perspectives, but more - so out to place Edward Snowden and his controversial actions on a pedestal.

The actor Andrew Scott says we should stop putting Shakespeare on a pedestal and treating him so reverentially.

It is so difficult not putting Nolan's fare up on a pedestal, and when the moment gets here it's almost like there would be nothing his efforts could do to appease.

We must hold facts on the highest pedestal and believe them as so.

Even before you factor value into the equation, the Kia Optima already performs well when it comes to practicality, comfort and ease of use, so the fact it's not too expensive to buy when compared to some rivals automatically puts the Optima on a high pedestal.

So how about you get off your holier - than - thou pedestal and simply encourage other «writers» to become «professional authors» by not slapping labels on them.

Regardless, sci - fi sells so well that there are more and more articles and interviews with science fiction writers where they are put on pedestals and treated as though they belong in the select company of writers of much higher standing - like romance novelists.

The Blackberry Playbook... holds security on a very high pedestal because of RIMs background in enterprise, so its no surprise that they won't allow known vulnerabilities to just hang around.

Breeders are crying «FOUL» because they are so used to being on their self - imposed pedestal, but no more.

The problem with Schafer and his, shall we say... lack of time management acumen is that I think a lot of fans put him up on a pedestal as a genius game developer for so long, that when the several, repeated incidents of his poor management skill started to occur, it felt as if all their invested faith in the guy has been betrayed.

Clash of Clans is so famous now, it's pretty much a cliché to put it on a pedestal.

Each of the four mantels in the exhibition takes on a different shape or surface — referencing the design and political ideologies of International Style and Memphis Group along with the high / low aesthetics of Pop and ornamentation — acting as a pedestal, a sculpture of an object, an image of an object, and so on.

In these playful, environmental works, such as spinach and banana (2013), Estna arranges her paintings in various positions, tilting them against walls, hanging them, and placing them on their sides; she often extends patterns to fabrics heaped on the floor and small spheres placed on pedestals, or drills holes into canvases so that light shines through them.

When Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter talk about their images as formal design, I see artists turning their back on the work so as to get back up onto their pedestal.

The file cabinets are on rolling pedestals, so they can be easily moved out, and information - technology equipment is kept ten feet off the floor and in a closet.

Bochner's initial idea was to ask his artist friends to loan him their working drawings for the exhibit, but there was no money to frame each piece, so Bochner compiled notebook pages of print material and working drawings by Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Jo Baer, John Cage, Tom Clancy, Dan Flavin, Milton Glaser, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Alfred Jensen, Michael Kirby, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Moskovitz, Robert Smithson, and others into a xeroxed volume which was then presented in four identical copies, each on their own pedestal.

So he's going to be at the fair, and he's going to have a little column with a pedestal and a mini-booth on it.

Moreover, just as physicians have become increasingly accustomed to being seen as fallible humans, so too climate scientists have an increasingly fragile purchase on their pedestals.

So, it is almost inconceivable that such a study would take place in the US & UK where science is still (wrongly) put on some pedestal and even this kind of questioning research would be condemned — let alone daring to come to a conclusion that actually criticising academics (wrongly termed «scientists»).

It's just that she's set herself up as a prime example of twinkiehood by placing herself on a pedestal, thus becoming an excellent example of what's gone so very wrong for the Slackoisie.

You can put various characters on the transparent pedestal so you can promote it with Bitcoin by putting company name, group name, event name, etc..

I wanted to have them sit on little gold pedestals, so I spray painted some bottle caps I've been collecting (yes, I hoard bottle caps too — don't be surprised if you see me on Hoarding Buried Alive one day).

-- during Fall, pumpkin - topped pedestals, and some smaller neutral - colored pumpkins and / or gourds on the top of the sideboard would look so cool!

Since we don't have our washer and dryer on pedestals, we had ample room on top for some sort of organization so we opted for two baskets.

Evan «windowed» the arrangement, so that the pumpkins on the pedestals were in between the chairs, and not directly in line with them, where folks would be seated and having conversations.

That pedestal is so cool — I don't have anything like that and love the quote on the top!