Sentences with phrase «own pedestal»

He was on a stage but not a pedestal.

The analysts over at The Wrap have taken a close hard look at the new wide releases coming out this week, and have determined that it will be the new Nickelodeon cartoon film that knocks American Sniper off its pedestal.

If Jeff Bezos chooses to, he can spend his time on the pedestal helping rebuild one of America's most complicated (and storied) cities.

The particular robot in my demonstration is bolted to a pedestal behind a workbench, which would be a fairly typical arrangement at customer sites.

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.

You risk making them feel put on a pedestal, communicating to them your value and status as lower.

To begin, he knocks our most respected experts off their pedestals, dismissing the notion that peer - reviewed studies by scientists and academics are beyond reproach.

We put eight really cheap bikes in the audience and a nicer bike on a pedestal, propped up on some bricks,» recalls cofounder and CEO John Foley.

Superficially, it's obvious why: There are the global - scale economic and political effects a manipulated outcome could have, and the psychological appeal of attacking a democratic process that the US holds on a pedestal.

These individual workspaces include contemporary office furniture from Tayco's newest «Up» product line, featuring a large work surface, ergonomic «Obi» executive chair and movable pedestal with lockable file storage.

Entrepreneur Joe Pulitzer asked residents of New York to donate towards the cost of constructing the pedestal.

In 1884, when the Statue of Liberty first arrived in America, the pedestal it stands on today hadn't been built.

It seems Canada is as corrupt as the rest, so let's get off our self - righteous pedestal and fix this mess!!!

One of my online blogger friends, Olivia over at TappingLuau, sent me this link to an article on «Tearing Down the Pedestals» written by Renee Altson.

Men are trained in ultra orthodox communities to focus on the woman's pleasure in the bedroom over their own pleasure and to put their wife on a pedestal.

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

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!

Married and single Christians alike put sex on a pedestal.

«This morning we continue our march to reconciliation by removing the Jefferson Davis Confederate statue from its pedestal of reverence,» Mayor Mitch Landrieu tweeted.

Problem was I put lecturers on a pedestal and expected the same from «ordinary» congregants.

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.

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.

Can we finally take «Jesus» off this godly pedestal.

In contrast to Frank Gehry, whose style of architecture can mostly be characterized as dissonant blobism, the designs highlighted by the NCAS are grounded in the classical tradition and feature familiar tropes like pedestals, arches, and vases.

You, scot, «truth «follower, all inhabit the same rarified air of your own making — a supposed moral high ground pedestal on which you've placed yourselves.

By the time it trickles down to the lowly, it may look true, coming from such a high pedestal and all.

I'm even more sorry if you've been led to believe that a relationship will magically cure all, if you've bought into placing marriage on a pedestal.

It is always easy to stand on lofty pedestal and preach to Israel as long as the land does not belong to you.

JULY 29, 2011 New research by Chinese scientists has thrown the winged Archaeopteryx — long thought to be the «original bird» — off the evolutionary pedestal as the case study for evolution from dinosaur to bird.

Said pedestal is a fabrication.

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.

Nevertheless, while Lewis affirms the need for good art and good science, he readily admits that Christianity knocks culture off its pedestal.

If you fall off the pedestal, they can gossip about you and slander your sinfulness; that's MUCH more fun than actually following Jesus» model.

Thank goodness they will be returned to the fringes of society from whence they came, knocked fiercely off their pedestal of false moral righteousness (a.k.a. bigotry) and back into their holes.

And the saddest thing about having to be on that «demigod» pedestal is that there are too many people in the pews who forcibly place you up there because it's easier to follow a fleshly person than it is to follow Jesus.

Being expected to be up on a pedestal like some kind of «Holy Role Model» instead of being an honest sinner like everyone else.

Well, now every nation knows why America was knocked off it's pedestal.

Put him on a pedestal that he'll inevitably fall from?

They're either held to a higher standard or put on a pedestal.

The most massive FBI propaganda effort is now well known: the vicious campaign to take Martin Luther King «off his pedestal» by planting derogatory articles in the media, peddling secret tapes to journalists (such as Ben Bradlee when he was Newsweek's Washington bureau chief), and sending threat letters to King and his wife, Coretta.

so you can come down from your pedestal now and admit your role.

The rarefied air of the pedestal he has placed himself on will never allow him to admit it though.

The way it is often taught and believed seems to limit the breath of God within Scripture, and puts Scripture up on a pedestal where God never intended it to be placed.

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.

By placing their sexuality on a pedestal and not allowing them to explore or express their sexuality you effectively stifle it.

It's because she helps give me a glimpse, a fellow traveller with rumours of the north perhaps, and we're on the same road, no pedestals are required.

Sometimes they wanted to be on that pedestal, believing in their own ridiculous hype, but most of the time, our heroes and our patron saints, our spiritual mothers and fathers, didn't want to be elevated up there, anyway, and are secretly relieved when it comes crashing down.

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.

I personally think the bible is one of the worst books ever written, it gives people a pedestal to judge... simply sad.

Thus many women who seek counseling find little help in escaping the trap between a submissive existence in which they are of secondary importance if not actively obedient to men, and a pedestal - like existence in which they are exalted as beautiful and holy.