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iconoclasm

[ US /ˌaɪˈkɑnəˌkɫæzəm/ ]
[ UK /ˈa‍ɪkənˌɒklæzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the orientation of an iconoclast

How To Use iconoclasm In A Sentence

  • No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
  • Much of Harry Potter's iconoclasm disappears on film, due to Hollywood's regimented conformities of set, sound and stereotyped character. How Harry Saved Reading
  • The pope at Rome (Gregory II) likewise declared against the emperor's iconoclasm, and the population of the exarchate of Ravenna rose in revolt and made an alliance with the Lombards. 692
  • Despite the come-and-have-a-go iconoclasm of his album's title, MacInnes, 25, is softly spoken, charming and shy.
  • But surely there's a difference between iconoclasm and the blind, flailing in the dark that might, just might, if she's lucky, cast an idol at Simpleton's feet.
  • Only a heightened style of performance can make sense of such iconoclasm, but here, especially in the first half, Wrentmore takes it at such a languid pace that the epigrammatic power of Orton's language is utterly drained away.
  • Erased de Kooning was the first major work of Rauschenberg’s career, and it showed many of the qualities for which he would eventually become known: a paradoxical originality (or perhaps an original paradoxicalness), energy, iconoclasm, unerring instinct. R.I.P Robert Rauschenberg
  • Before that, the Young Vic hosted his two-hour adaptation of Hamlet starring Adrian Lester, which was more than iconoclasm, and doubtless an exercise in brevity only achievable by Brook himself.
  • Although there are other facets of the history and historiography of Islamic iconoclasm that merit analysis, my aim here is twofold.
  • Noah Webster was inventing American iconoclasm when he decided to oust the ‘u’ from words like ‘glamour.’
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