iconoclasts in English

noun
1
a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.
synonyms:criticskeptichereticunbelieverdissidentdissenterinfidelrebelrenegademutineer
2
a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular.
noun

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1. The Iconoclasts

2. Iconoclasts, however, can upset the best laid plans of stereotyped one-day skippers.

3. In their own way, they were both iconoclasts with a common weakness: a deep-rooted disdain for brutish, clear-cut answers.

4. 30 In their own way, they were both iconoclasts with a common weakness: a deep-rooted disdain for brutish, clear-cut answers.

5. Either we become regarded as gratuitously destructive iconoclasts, or the shepherd himself becomes suspect for having withheld information.

6. The Conquistadors have not (yet) attracted the obtusest attentions of iconoclasts, but they are conventionally portrayed as uber-exploiters, unleashing …

7. The selections in this volume are drawn from the colorful first decade of Cahiers, 1951–1959, when a group of young iconoclasts rocked the world of film criticism with their provocative views on international cinema