(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.
Iconoclast
Definition:
(n.) A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
(n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
(2) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(3) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
(4) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(5) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
(7) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
(8) Acknowledging the contribution of sociology and social sciences to psychiatry, it is suggested that the heroic period of social psychiatry and the iconoclastic approach of sociology of mental health are over.
(9) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(10) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
(11) While Brand’s iconoclastic politics, urging people not to vote and to abandon conventional party politics, emerge naturally from his subversive comedy, the spirit of Izzard’s surreal improvisations are harder to find in his pursuit of a conventional political career.
(12) The recent case of The Jewel of Medina, a work by Sherry Jones which is neither bold nor iconoclastic, exemplifies the problem.
(13) In his 20s he was an iconoclastic aesthete, who learned Chinese with the great Swedish sinologist, Bernard Karlgren, in Stockholm, not out of political commitment to Mao's recent revolution, but out of love for a venerable culture of grace and simplicity which, he thought, represented the blissful antithesis of the consumerist west.
(14) This iconoclastic critique from the right did not change US policy but gained the keepers of Rand's flame respect and credibility, said Ghate, a Canadian of German and Indian parentage with a PhD in philosophy.
(15) Outraged Gehry's iconoclastic designs include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Maggie's Centre, a cancer daycare centre, in Dundee.
(16) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
(17) His backers, it should be noted, include such bold iconoclasts as Tessa Jowell, Lord Falconer and Alastair Campbell.
(18) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.
(19) But Brolin said that “he came on [set] as the kind of mercurial iconoclast he is.
(20) These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church’s real mission.