iconoclastic in English

adjective
1
characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.
a fresh, even an iconoclastic, influence could work wonders

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1. 11 The film is an iconoclastic allegory.

2. 1 Wolfe's theories were revolutionary and iconoclastic.

3. Wolfe's theories were revolutionary and iconoclastic.

4. The film is an iconoclastic allegory.

5. 10 His iconoclastic tendencies can get him into trouble.

6. 4 Zinberg was an iconoclastic Harvard drug researcher.

7. 5 Their memories emphasise his intrepid, iconoclastic, and freedom-loving wilfulness.

8. Zinberg was an iconoclastic Harvard drug researcher.

9. 6 It is in its nature neither conservative nor iconoclastic.

10. 3 Of course the paper was not totally iconoclastic.

11. 7 I thought he was very handsome, tragic and iconoclastic.

12. 2 His plays were fairly iconoclastic in their day.

13. 12 The first performance of the iconoclastic composition caused a tremendous hullabaloo in the audience.

14. 14 Their works seem to be bitter, critical, rebellious, iconoclastic, experimental, often absurd, more often misdirected.

15. 18 Is it utopian to hope that such iconoclastic ideas will gain ground?

16. The first performance of the iconoclastic composition caused a tremendous hullabaloo in the audience.

17. 20 Today his message is more austere, more profound and more iconoclastic than ever.

18. 8 It is tempting to see here an iconoclastic attitude towards male-female roles.

19. 9 As a pastor he was diligent and although iconoclastic, he defended the clergy against outside attack.

20. 21 Its immediate successor, the 1999 New Beetle, is less historically significant but equally iconoclastic.

21. 13 This artist is an iconoclastic sculptor who also reinvents a whole bestiary in the shape of furniture.

22. 19 There was no point in being stuffy; it would attract new readers, show that the paper was iconoclastic, broadminded.

23. In all our Bellyachings over the years, we had never been iconoclastic enough to go that far

24. Perhaps better than any other of the "Bootleg" releases, it encapsulates the dichotomy of Pearl Jam's iconoclastic catalog

25. Like tomato, cucumber and a host of other iconoclastic ingredients, Aubergines are technically a berry and therefore classed as fruit

26. And blogger Roides, nicknamed after an iconoclastic and witty Greek author, challenged the perception of who should be affronted by the article:

27. Corporeal Meadows is about the life and works of Harry Partch - iconoclastic American composer, theorist, instrument builder, raconteur, big-time crank and sometime hobo

28. 16 An iconoclastic movement resulted from a decree from the eastern emperor, Leo III (717–7, forbidding any representation of human or animal form in the church.

29. 15 John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat, died Saturday at a hospital in Cambridge,(www.Sentencedict.com) Massachusetts. He was

30. 17 STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, local media reported.

31. Two absolute highlights of the musical repertoire take on iconoclastic accents in the double contemporary dance programme that the Emanuel Gat Dance is presenting on this occasion.

32. Chronic is bold, iconoclastic, and addresses one of the most important and challenging problems facing modern medicine with compassion, love, and hope.” — Ying Zhang, MD, PhD, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University

33. Anthropophagy (or cannibalism) was the name assigned to this unusual, iconoclastic, and somewhat obscure creative philosophy, a concept announced by, and exemplified in, Oswald de Andrade’s “Anthropophagy Manifesto” (1928), which proclaims “I am only interested in that which is not my own” (65)

34. Older paintings in Saint John's Church, Gülşehir Later frescoes in Saint John's Church, in Gülşehir, dated by an inscription to 1212 Iconoclastic paintings in a church in Açıksaray Frescoes in the Karanlık Kilisesi in Göreme from the early twelfth century The first descriptions of the rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia comes from Xenophon's Anabasis of 402 BC.

35. And Little Edie is an iconoclastic character, one that is especially Apropos to be revisiting in a time of recession.: Just Apropos of the matters you have just raised about the conduct of solicitors, those, I think I am right in saying, am I not, are not the subject of any ground of appeal?