put someone/something on a pedestal

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pedestal
Both stand well over four feet and are on pedestals.
When the pedestals were present, the temporal sequence varied: either pulsed briefly pulse paradigm!, or continuously presented steady paradigm!.
We could then measure discrimination with cone pedestals composed of a single component, or a combination of these components.
The experimental session lasted from 45 to 90 min and comprised five blocks, one for each condition pulse-brighter pedestals, pulse-darker pedestals, zero pedestals, steady-brighter pedestals, steady-darker pedestals!.
There is no cause for us to prostrate ourselves in thoughtless admiration before assumed superiority in any walk of life, turning ourselves into pedestals for others to pose on.
On both empty pedestals, notes were left.
To show clearly the changes of the linear electron density in the jets, the high linear electron densities corresponding to the jet pedestals were partly cut off.
They happen to do something where there is an enormous organization geared up to pushing them on to a pedestal.
In the cartoon, the pedestal is inscribed faintly with the word 'disegno'.
The presence of pedestal bases is also a feature that argues for a rulership interpretation of potbelly sculptures.
Linguistic deference is not, pace the pedestal view, the rule.
Nevertheless, some theorists remain attracted to the pedestal view.
In the end, individual autonomy should simply be removed from its pedestal so that it is allowed 'its due place, but no more'.
The staircase procedure was repeated for another pedestal chromaticity.
Comparisons of the means based on contrasts indicated that in the steady condition, the difference in thresholds between the negative and zero pedestals was not significant t91!
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