(n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Example Sentences:
(1) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
(2) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(3) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
(4) Kraft Foods has a proven track record of successfully completing and integrating strategic combinations to build iconic brands and multi-national businesses, including the acquisitions of LU in 2007 and Nabisco in 2000.
(5) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
(6) Unlike the vecindades, which remained segregated and were always a space for the working classes and urban lumpen — even if they were appropriated as icons and romanticised by the middle and upper classes — the azoteas began to be inhabited by members of the middle-class intelligentsia during the early 20th century.
(7) When we use Ziggy Stardust to think through the problem of populist icons aren't we leader-shipping Bowie?
(8) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(9) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
(10) As it has elevated "hygge" (cosiness) into a way of life, Copenhagen has elevated the humble bicycle into a cultural icon, a pillar of its image.
(11) As Bartomeu told Sport: “There is no reason to break our contract with Enrique after he earned full marks for this season.” Meanwhile, on Pogba, the club president said: “Pogba is an iconic player at Juventus and has a contract there – we have not tried to sign him but we are closely monitoring his progress.
(12) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
(13) This has been a season of distress, disorder and the dismissal of an iconic manager for Chelsea but now comes a night that could go a long way to making it one for the club to cherish.
(14) The title grew out of the iconic 1980s magazine, The Face, and hit the streets in 1986, designed by Face designer, Neville Brody.
(15) In some markets in the world we have customers who, despite all the progress that we’ve made, will not consider a French brand.” A spokesman for the prime minister, commenting on May’s conversation with Tavares, said: “The prime minister and Mr Tavares discussed the importance the UK attaches to Vauxhall’s plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton and their shared desire to protect and promote the jobs it supports and what Mr Tavares referred to as the ‘iconic’ Vauxhall brand within the wider group.
(16) The drawings feature a large female icon, her face replaced with the neon balaclavas that Pussy Riot use to mask their identity.
(17) Gareth Neame, managing director of Carnival Films, which produces the show, said: "We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters on television."
(18) There is a fairytale quality to the idea of a boy who herded cattle in Qunu becoming the president of a modern state and an international icon.
(19) Cook knows that Apple is considered such an icon of design that, to its faithful, it's not so much a company as a public good.
(20) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
Iconoclasm
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
(2) And surviving that moment of iconoclasm early on 9 May , the personification of Labour’s failure.
(3) It is true that some recent exhibitions have had particularly bad reviews, such as one on iconoclasm, Art Under Attack, which was Curtis's idea.
(4) Her combination of self-belief and iconoclasm was evident as soon as she joined the house, 27 years ago.
(5) But the originality, vigour and iconoclasm of his book make certain that it will endure.
(6) If he were really so in love with iconoclasm, he could maybe have a spoof rap about a black gentleman.
(7) Much of his appeal lies in his iconoclasm: in his 1998 book Foundations of Economics, a kind of bible for the growing alternative economics movement, he cites the British Keynesian Joan Robinson : “The purpose of studying economics is to learn how not to be deceived by economists.” But what can we expect from this reluctant economist and reluctant politician intellectually?
(8) Results suggested that different forms of graffiti could be interpreted from five characterizations of early adolescent personality: sexual maturity, self-identity, idealism, iconoclasm, and rebelliousness.
(9) It will become the focus for political mobilisation, the icon of political iconoclasm recast herself as victim of the iconoclasts.
(10) Despite, or perhaps because of, his iconoclasm, his tendency to contradict himself, and his general political incorrectness – which may, one suspects, be more mischievous than heartfelt – Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the 80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.
(11) Indeed, for all its anarchy and iconoclasm, the show was still a comfortably white, middle-class proposition that dealt with the familiar baby-boomer touchstones of university life and liberal politics.
(12) He compares the iconoclasm of the English Reformation, when hundreds of medieval carvings of saints and angels in the cathedral were decapitated, stained glass shattered, and acres of wall paintings destroyed, leaving only a few survivors in the crypt, to images of a smashed Starbucks window, the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and a defaced image of Colonel Gaddafi.
(13) The Daily Telegraph's Richard Dorment wrote: "When some bright spark at Tate Britain came up with the idea of doing a show about the history of iconoclasm in this country, why wasn't the plan strangled at birth?"
(14) It’s his celebrity.” Phillip Carter, who researches sociolinguistics at Florida International University, and has a chapter on Trump and Hillary Clinton in a forthcoming book, said Trump’s iconoclasm, New York accent and inappropriate language could seem rebellious to white, monolingual boys.
(15) Both religions promoted iconoclasm in the service of one God.
(16) But there is iconoclasm lurking under every one-liner.