Sentences with phrase «stand on a pedestal»

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.

One can imagine Brigham Young standing on a pedestal, accepting his medal and humbly proclaiming, «If my beliefs are even more ridiculous than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants».

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.

She can bow in three different ways, play basketball, steal a checkbook out of a pocket, wave a flag, play piano, paint abstract art, count, say «yes» and «no,» smile, stick out her tongue, honk a horn, fetch a hat from another person and bring it to me and then take it back, square up and stretch out, stand on a pedestal, lie down, etc..

Farley is scheduled to stand on a pedestal and behave.

Stand on the pedestal and play Zelda's Lullaby.

Stand on the pedestal and play Zelda's Lullaby and a fairy will appear and teach you this magic.

With the advent of proper online multiplayer for No Man's Sky, the game will finally stand on a pedestal above critics ire toward the game.

Amy Sillman: well, I'm going to stand on my pedestal today and say that what should be occupied is Sothebys, Phillips de Pury, etc. these are places where NOTHING GOOD happens at all.

It's seductive pose stands on a pedestal, the sound of its mechanised movement mingling with Érik Bullot's «Tongue Twisters» (2011) playing from behind a black curtain in another room.

Fraser exhibits the «work» in the Biennial as a book standing on a pedestal.

Nine vessels created by artists from cultures throughout Africa stand on pedestals of varying height, a design choice that highlights the wares» individuality — their differing sizes, shapes, colors, and textures.

A Robert Graham bronze of a nude woman stands on a pedestal in the foyer.

French riot police stand on the pedestal of Marianne, smashing candles and flowers as they try to chase the protesters away.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

Maybe what they need is a visit to Lady Liberty, where Emma Lazarus» poem is engraved on the pedestal on which she stands, underpinning our core values of liberty and justice: «Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»

«You've got to have somebody with the gut to go out there and confront these issues and confront these bad people in our party who have given Cuomo the pedestal that he stands on.»

«It's contrary to the reform pedestal she stood on.»

Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, says Mark - Viverito's comments are «contrary to the reform pedestal she stood on.»

It could also be that you are a new mother whom baby weight found and floored to the ground from the pedestal of slimness that you once stood haughtily on.

Thinking out of the box and their supreme sense of creativity makes them stand out on the pedestal of success.

Since I wanted my valentine's decorated mini cakes to be the «center of attention», I placed them on my pink pedestal cake stand.

I have used wreaths before and a pedestal vase in my tablescapes but I like your idea using a cake stand because you have a larger area to put something on it!

Show off baked goods on a modern or vintage - inspired cake stand or tiered pedestal stand, and serve layered desserts like tiramisu in a glass trifle bowl.

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«Pushing Daisies» proudly stands on its own unique pedestal amongst the sea of one - hour dramas.

Free standing Vanity Mirror Table Mirror: whether using it on the dresser, in the bathroom or your vanity table in your dressing room or bedroom, this pedestal cosmetic mirror is very useful because you can use it everywhere.

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.

A self - conscious commentary on the significance of an artist's biographical background, the work also presents a nod to modernism — the crates double as pedestals while the donuts stand in for sculptures — and the use of the «readymade.»

Where sculptures are placed in relation to one another, whether or not they stand on a plinth or pedestal, and how they interact with the walls, ground, and ceiling or sky complicate and enhance the experience and meaning of her individual objects.

Each of these installations is loosely based on a classical landscape painting by the 17th - century artist Nicolas Poussin (1594 — 1665) created as three - dimensional interpretations using sets of pedestals and standing walls in varying dimensions to display objects in meticulous arrangements.

Here, Wolfson and his associates conspire to lift the farmhouse, which sits at the bottom of the hill, put it on a truck, and place it onto a concrete pedestal right where we stand.

But, the context was clear, art belonged to people, and there was no need and reason to put artwork on pedestals or stands.

Strother thinks of these in terms of stand alone sculptures, but also as pedestals, ones you can put objects on.

In this large - scale performance, lining both sides of the central axis through the park, performers, who will share a number of physical characteristics, will stand on individual pedestals, wielding sledgehammers, and pounding metal cubes, creating in the process a series of destroyed sculptures.

John Chamberlain's intricate sculptures made of crushed car parts, Agnes Martin's geometric grids in muted colours on canvas, Wim Delvoye's sewage pipes on porcelain pedestals and Tom Friedman's toothpaste painting all stand side - by - side in this exhibition.

It consists of a fixed - camera view of the artist Frances Stark standing on a low, cunningly contrived revolving pedestal, changing from one precariously handmade garment to another, seemingly without moving.

These amazing large - scale pieces stand on the square base of the beam that becomes a sort of built - in pedestal, or plinth, that holds the carved parts as they spire upwards.

The exhibition will balance the Cuban artist's early performances — such as Tribute to Ana Mendieta, 1985 — 96, a series of reenactments of the older artist's body works, and Studio Study, 1996, an endurance piece in which she stood for hours on a high pedestal while holding raw meat — with pieces that followed her development of Arte de Conducta, or the «Art of Behavior,» around 2002.

Presented on a pedestal, the singular tank stands alone at the entrance to the gallery, just inside the plate glass façade, where sunlight can shine through the thousands of tiny holes drilled in its skin.

In addition to the planks, the artist also creates wall pieces and free - standing sculptures in varying geometrical shapes and sizes, ranging from smaller forms on pedestals to large - scale, outdoor structures in the shape of pyramids, ziggurats, tetrahedrons and occasionally crystals.

Standing on a white pedestal was a chair titled Charles Eames fur Vegetarier (Charles Eames for vegetarians; all works 2002), put together with twigs found in the woods.

He is seated on a large, low pedestal at the site where Virgilio Sieni's Atlante del gesto (Atlas of Gesture), 2015, was recently performed, and where examples of classical sculpture and their copies stood in Anna Anguissola and Salvatore Settis's 2015 exhibition «Serial Classic.

He famously (or infamously) created a living art installation in London's Trafalgar Square by scheduling members of the public to stand in one - hour shifts on an empty pedestal for 100 days.

Another is journalists» inherent dislike of people in positions of influence, the tendency to want to topple pedestals and the elites who stand on them.

The narrow pedestal for the TV is a nice feature because you can place this TV on almost any entertainment stand.

The A1 doesn't use a conventional pedestal stand, instead it leans back on a hinged support which also contains an integrated subwoofer.

On the speaker's base are two threaded mounting screws for use with the optional Festival stand, a stainless steel and glass pedestal that runs a pricey $ 200 — we'd stick to your counter or entertainment stand instead.