Pedestal in a sentence as a noun

It's kind of weird to put him on a pedestal like this.

Would the author still be putting him on a pedestal as he does so?I'm not saying don't try.

A hutch, shelving, or cabinet above, and an enclosed pedestal cabinet, and you've got a full desk.

The title makes it seem like he went out of his way to make the comparison and put himself on a pedestal, but thats not what happened.

While putting the dead on a pedestal may comfort our own feelings about death, it doesn't escape the reality of their actions.

Let's stop playing this game and accept that from a macro view there's a lot going on and its unfair to **** on or put one group on a pedestal.

Theres no store where you buy such pedestals; Apple designed and engineered it specifically for this event.

However, that urinal, and its reproductions, were pointedly never mounted on a wall, but flat on a pedestal where it couldn't be used.

The rotation of the iPhone atop the pedestal was in perfect sync with the rotation of the iPhone projected on the big screen at the back of the stage.

When Schiller unveiled the iPhone 5, it rose from the stage floor on a smoothly-rising and rotating pedestal, pinpoint spotlights hitting the phone and only the phone.

He's calling up the movie image of a giant diamond on a pedestal, one that jewel thieves go to great trouble to steal because it's so incredibly valuable.

However...It's all to easy to put drawing on too high a pedestal, and Michael Graves is possibly the best example of the dangers of doing so. His drawings are pleasing: humourous lines, stimulating juxtapositions of shape and colour.

It might be annoying to have guys constantly interrupting to raise themselves onto a little pedestal as caring gentlemen, but this is creating a wall between two groups and we both need to work beyond the meme.

That doesn't mean we should consider them when we speak of "the thing that programmers do." It would be like including people who write their own legal contracts when speaking about "the thing that lawyers do."So yes, if we're going to keep using the word "programmers" to refer to both the Engineer journeymen and the white-belts who produce misfeasance with their every step, then we should stop putting "programmers" on a pedestal.

Pedestal definitions

noun

a support or foundation; "the base of the lamp"

See also: base stand

noun

a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"

noun

an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

See also: plinth footstall