Sentences with phrase «pedestal as»

Curvaceous lines and fluid shapes crown this pedestal as the ultimate in new - wave design.

We received a beautiful milk glass cake pedestal as a wedding gift and I loved it so much, I decided it needed some friends to keep it company.

The Google Pixel was just knocked off its pedestal as DxOMark Mobile's best smartphone camera, courtesy of the HTC U11.

«Yearly conferences are great for publicity but not very useful in bringing bitcoin to markets,» Wright explains, «In fact, it works against it by putting it upon a pedestal as if it were some overly complicated technology that needs a conference just to understand».

Rarely do law firms send out releases highlighting appointments in the information part of the firm and even more rarely do they send out releases placing positions like Information Officers on the same pedestal as Partners.

My own picture, apparently taken moments ago by a smartphone on a pedestal as I was peering at the installation, was smuggled in at regular

In one tableau, two naked cave women and an anthropomorphically officious vulture hunch over the edge of their pedestal as if contemplating the inevitability of death as exemplified by some unseen carcass.

Mario + Rabbids have managed something truly unique, in which they have put Mario on a pedestal as the pop icon he has become.

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.

Maybe you're like me and already have a copy of this last - gen PS2 gem, faintly lit on a golden pedestal as Schubert lends the proper tone.

Although the Mazda2 doesn't quite knock the Ford Fiesta off its pedestal as the most fun - to - drive car in this class, it gets pretty close.

Lincoln MKZ The MKZ is a make - or - break car for Lincoln, charged with putting the brand on the same pedestal as the premium - priced imports that baby boomers love.

It is very easy to be put on a pedestal as an Olympic medal holder but I remind pupils that I am just a normal person, and that everything I have achieved has come from hard work.

«I actually enjoyed it the more linear it became during the later chapters though wouldn't put it on the same pedestal as other games in the series.

When the autumn winds kick up, THE EXORCIST sits atop a demonic pedestal as my staple requirement in film, TV and print.

While I think that the founding fathers are sometimes put on a gigantic pedestal as one of the greatest men who ever lived, this notion that Calvin was more important in the history of the United States of America than one of the men who helped WRITE the Declaration of Independence is absolutely fucking insulting.

That may also be the script's fault for creating a flat gentleman hero of yore to act as Jules's foil and to be put on a pedestal as the classic man all men should strive to be.

A new argument has just been added to the growing case for graphene being bumped off its pedestal as the next big thing in the high - tech world by the two - dimensional semiconductors known as MX2 materials.

Even with the recent slipshod handling of some recent cases such as those of Justice Ademola, Madam Patience Jonathan and others which the EFCC appeared to have bungled, the Ikoyi cash haul elevates Magu's commission to an all time higher pedestal as it further stamps the belief that the nation sits precariously over hidden looted funds.

He was belittled in his heyday, then placed on the elder - statesman pedestal as people saw how much worse the daytime talk - show game could get in the hands of people like Geraldo Rivera and Morton Downey Jr..

We don't need to be put on a pedestal as BFers, but it should be culturally acceptable and encouraged, no matter where baby needs it.

In that case, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for himself and four other members of the Court, knocked religious liberty off its rightful pedestal as the «first freedom» and relegated it to the position of a dependent afterthought.

Anson Shupe, an Indiana University professor who has studied the matter, says, «To me it says Protestants are less reluctant to come forward because they don't put their clergy on as high a pedestal as Catholics do with their priests.»

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.

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.

Friends and colleagues were invited into a Düsseldorf department store to view the artists seated on living - room furniture from the store's inventory, placed on pedestals as works of art.

While Alexander's earliest objects were displayed on pedestals as sculptures, his newest work is wall mounted.

In Venice, Faust features a cast of aloof, androgynous performers activating the pavilion's imposing architecture by singing, headbanging, dancing, wrestling, playing dirgeful music, climbing up walls, and perching on pedestals as living sculptures.

We provide them with all of our resources so that they can offer custom, high - end pedestals as if they were the manufacturers themselves.

They are arranged on pedestals as if a monument to those who have lost their lives crossing the seas to get to what they hoped to be a better life.

One could describe the pedestals as functional art.

A pair of rich scarlet - red, gold, and black ceramic Chinese vases mounted on wood pedestals as table lamps and topped with jaunty black paper shades.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»

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.

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!!

I am tired of religious leaders who put themselves on a pedestal and deem what is proper or good or holy and what isn't as if they are God.

I certainly think (as you have shown) in the past that the doctrine of inspired scripture has caused some to place the Bible on a pedestal that only the clergy should have access to, but just because some have unfortunately held that view, that does invalidate whether scripture is inspired or not.

Indeed, it thrives whenever man is knocked from his pedestal, for it has always held that meaning matters more than size, that we are great precisely as we are able to make ourselves small.

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.

Please come down off your pedestal, assume that I've actually read and believe the Bible, and we'll have a conversation as peers.

But it is not enough to use it, as it is used in our day, as a rallying cry in battles which, strictly speaking, have nothing much to do with religion, or to put it on a pedestal to be admired, or in a spirit of haphazard eclecticism to pick and choose from the shari`a only the material which pleases us most.