How To Use Iconoclastic In A Sentence

  • It may belong in its iconoclastic period, the Sixties, but its subversive attack on state institutions rings as true as ever in our era of spin.
  • The pioneers of wind energy are an iconoclastic lot, tilting, if you will, at the windmills of conventional energy wisdom and quixotically persisting in the face of difference and opposition.
  • Zinberg was an iconoclastic Harvard drug researcher.
  • Once irreverent and perhaps even iconoclastic, these shows relied too heavily on his reputation and weakening force of personality.
  • That iconoclastic culture rejects the seductions of the representational.
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  • Today his message is more austere, more profound and more iconoclastic than ever.
  • Wd very much have thought Toby was aiming for iconoclastic, not iconic, also unforced or unfocused? AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
  • So despite its essentially iconoclastic, subversive nature, photography permits, even encourages, the sporadic establishment of canons, traditions, and an academical standardization of ideas.
  • Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
  • Moving even farther away from structural priorities, Russell Jacoby criticizes “blueprint” utopias for their authoritarian prescriptiveness and recovers an “iconoclastic” utopia tradition rooted in Romantic philosophies and Jewish mysticism and exemplified by Ernst Bloch. Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
  • MCCAIN: All my life I have been iconoclastic -- and not a conformer, whether it would be in high school, or the Naval Academy, or in the Navy. Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life
  • Like the well-known Garden Sculpture, Ruin has grown with each installation, helped by friends, a reprise of Roth's freewheeling, iconoclastic process.
  • Significantly, Hippocrates was the only author in the medical canon to be appreciated even by the iconoclastic iatrochemists.
  • Ms. Tharp, now 70 and a grandmother, has long been known for her iconoclastic works, which date back to 1965 and range from stark cerebral dances to grander ballet spectacles. The Kids Are All Right
  • From the earliest days of Dada, Duchamp's iconoclastic vision had been at the forefront of the avant-garde.
  • I thought he was very handsome, tragic and iconoclastic.
  • The story basically writes itself: bad-boy aristocrat shakes things up on the eve of the French Revolution with his naughty tell-all books and iconoclastic philosophical treatises.
  • Illustration: Matias Vigliano Play Previous: Big-Shot Game Designer Crafts Interactive Art After Hours In 1986, when DC released Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , Frank Miller's bleak, brutal reclamation of Batman's id, I had no use for revisionist superheroes and iconoclastic countermyth. Scott Brown on Dark Superheroes and Childish Action Figures
  • The first performance of the iconoclastic composition caused a tremendous hullabaloo in the audience.
  • Wolfe's theories were revolutionary and iconoclastic.
  • Their works seem to be bitter, critical, rebellious, iconoclastic, experimental, often absurd, more often misdirected.
  • Appalled by his indolence, gaming, and iconoclastic opinions, his psychology professor tried to catechize him: ‘Tut, tut, what does Saint Paul say, Mr. Crane?’
  • You get the sense that you were surrounded by idiosyncratic and iconoclastic people.
  • Murdoch said the energy of the iconoclastic and unconventional should not be curbed, adding: When the upstart is too successful, somehow the old interests surface, and restrictions on growth are proposed or imposed. Rupert Murdoch uses Margaret Thatcher lecture for a display of power
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat, died Saturday at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 97.
  • Constantinople, but, in the second Iconoclastic persecution, he seems to have felt no vocation for confessorship, and went to Rome. Hymns of the Eastern Church
  • Nowadays, the iconoclastic Vasan is almost an icon and his material is sometimes snapped up even before the paint is dry.
  • Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.
  • Black it certainly is; funny it certainly is, but, in reality, it is more of a symposium of anarchic, iconoclastic humour than a comedy in the pure sense of the word.
  • It involves crossing the line that divides political radicalism from iconoclastic mania. IN DEFENCE OF ARISTOCRACY
  • It is unlikely, given Rukenau's iconoclastic belief, that Simeon was buried in hallowed ground. SACRAMENT
  • While Luther was still hidden in the Wartburg, the first iconoclastic rioters entered his own church in Wittenberg in January 1522 to tear down and destroy the paintings, statues and above all, the crucifixes.
  • His plays were fairly iconoclastic in their day.
  • Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
  • And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection. FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
  • He was a reckless, iconoclastic sort of owl who would have caused problems here had he returned. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
  • Mr. Mimram Stoot, who accompanied himself on the sarrusophone, endorsed the iconoclastic views of his sister. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11
  • Seventy-six, was essentially "infidelic," just as the present age is constructively iconoclastic. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers
  • His criticisms are never iconoclastic and his sympathy never sycophantic.
  • Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight. For todays active man
  • ‘Whether those religious paintings are an expression of faith, whether they are deeply iconoclastic or whether they are a kind of extraordinary egomania we don't know,’ she says.
  • Until the reign of the iconoclastic Kamehameha II, Hawaiian culture was dominated by a rigid set of kapu, or taboos, sacred laws forbidding things like men and women eating together.
  • He has written some 30 iconoclastic books of fiction and nonfiction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything counts in this iconoclastic mix of psychedelic rock, jazz and pop.
  • Zen has an iconoclastic tendency, and seems to regard the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as a potential hindrance to spiritual awakening.
  • For twenty years he was a star performer at the Cambridge history podium - theatrical, witty, irreverent, iconoclastic.
  • The failure of even the most stringently iconoclastic monotheists is that while they reject the animal heads, the horns and the hooves of theriomorphic deities they nevertheless maintain the absurd anthropomorphism of not just humanity but masculinity. Archive 2007-04-01
  • Dazzling, rebellious and iconoclastic, she was the elfin beauty in the 1980s bratpack before her conviction for shoplifting and spectacular fall from grace. Jewlicious
  • Kaahumanu, abolished tabu, and his subjects cast away their idols, and fell into indifferent scepticism, the high priest Hewahewa being the first to light the iconoclastic torch, having previously given his opinion that there was only one great akua or spirit in lani, the heavens. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • Its immediate successor, the 1999 New Beetle, is less historically significant but equally iconoclastic.
  • A set of iconoclastic monks whom the Christian world is pleased to designate as St. Patrick, and who probably early in the fifth century of our era amused themselves by chiseling from the Irish monuments many of the symbols of the female power, removed also the figures of serpents which had for ages appeared in connection with the emblems of woman, and by this act won the plaudits of an admiring Christian world; chiefly, however, for the skill manifested in "banishing snakes from Ireland. The God-Idea of the Ancients
  • As a pastor he was diligent and although iconoclastic, he defended the clergy against outside attack.

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