iconoclasm

[ US /ˌaɪˈkɑnəˌkɫæzəm/ ]
[ UK /ˈa‍ɪkənˌɒklæzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the orientation of an iconoclast
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How To Use iconoclasm In A Sentence

  • Bill's connections are more direct but his statements struck me as an interest in full consideration rather than in character assassination or iconoclasm.
  • On iconoclasm there's the Catholic view here, the Orthodox, and a shorter but more balanced outline here.
  • His philosophy is a peculiar and wholly subjective patchwork of frustrated sexual fantasies, zany misanthropy, and 1960s hippy-dippy iconoclasm.
  • To ascribe features of masculinity to the divine is as blasphemous as to ascribe features of bestiality -- as in the theriomorphic deities of pagan religions so abhorred by monotheism -- the very blasphemy that iconoclasm reacts against. A Response to a Response
  • At college, Peirce earned a reputation for arrogance, brilliance, iconoclasm, dangerous mood swings, and dissipation, behaviors owing in part to neurological pathologies.
  • Elite law schools cherish robust debate, iconoclasm, and arguing issues from all sides, right?
  • For all its fascination, Jacoby's discussion of Jewish iconoclasm could do with a touch more theology.
  • But it's a definition of portraiture that once again collapses representation with reality - portraiture under the New Iconoclasm, if you will.
  • Back in the '60s, the left was the home of humor, iconoclasm, pleasure.
  • The irony and sometimes childish iconoclasm are still there but this is a film in which a burning sense of outrage and frustration also dominate and set the tone.
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