How to Use iconoclasm in a Sentence

iconoclasm

noun

• Scholars have tried to place the centuries-old acts of iconoclasm in a broader context.
  — Supriya Gandhi, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2020
• Massie's iconoclasm, one that has earned him the nickname Mr. No, has played well here.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 13 July 2020
• How the Chinese language and its writing system have weathered the modern waves of iconoclasm and been renewed since the turn of the past century is the subject of Tsu’s book.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• He was closeted in high school and cultivated a rebel iconoclasm to cope.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• But the ambitions of the First Look Media empire have also been hobbled by Greenwald’s team-last iconoclasm.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• But the burn-it-down iconoclasm of his base does not seem so consistent or easily mollified as that would imply.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• And the personal iconoclasm and moral purity of the Sanders campaign didn’t lend themselves to governance.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 July 2016
• But over the past decade Serra has been caught in the crossfire of the divisive iconoclasm overtaking American culture.
  — James Matthew Wilson, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• The history of iconoclasm suggests that the result is more often bloodshed than reform.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• Such iconoclasm seemed worlds away from establishment fashion and brands, the most bourgeois being Hermès, where Margiela was named creative head of womenswear in 1997.
  — Vogue, 21 Aug. 2017
• But whereas Bukowski embraced his role as writer of the anti-canon, Locklin was a blend of tradition and iconoclasm: a rebel among academics and an academic among rebels.
  — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
• Students and peers said such exercises were not iconoclasm or mere theatrics.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Anyone who wants this campaign to retain a trace of Kempian iconoclasm — and be more than a dreary prelude to Newsom’s coronation — should vote Villaraigosa.
  — Josh Gohlke, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• Modern iconoclasm tends to the abolition of the fanciful and the merely aesthetical.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2018
• Slender and stooped, Ramin had a gentle manner that belied his ferocious iconoclasm.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• For as long as humans have been making art, natural disasters, the ravages of time, theft and iconoclasm have threatened their creations’ survival.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
• To break down the bank’s hierarchy, Mr. Coutinho comes to work in jeans and a sweater, an iconoclasm in the conservative country, and insists on having everyone calling him Steven.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• The way the author handles the seminal works of the field or how the arguments are built around theory or method can expose orthodoxy as well as iconoclasm or eclecticism in one’s approach...
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2014
• For all his iconoclasm, Mr. Allen had a simple, traditional approach to baseball.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Part of that was a matter of changing tastes; but there was also a deliberate endeavor of people like de Kooning and Robert Rauschenberg to market their iconoclasm.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
• That kind of wry iconoclasm marks Östlund, an artist at once of great anthropological seriousness and deep, class-clown silliness.
  — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The decision was both impetuous and brutal, in part an exercise in fundamentalist iconoclasm, in part an act of defiance and rage against the world at large.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• Unfortunately, for all the early aughts talk of blogs taking over the world, the era of independent blogs turned out to be a brief one, and attempts to professionalize the blogging genre required stamping the iconoclasm out of it.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2019
• For all his prickly iconoclasm, Jobs had a reverence for Silicon Valley’s history and lore, Berlin observes.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• Over the course of human history, natural disasters, the ravages of time, theft and iconoclasm have destroyed countless masterpieces.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021
• In a new spirit of iconoclasm, thousands of buildings, monuments and statues dedicated to American sinners of the past must be destroyed, removed or renamed.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
• Overall, there’s a healthy tension between tradition and iconoclasm in contemporary food art.
  — Sharon Butler, Smithsonian, 13 Jan. 2017
• Others argue that the destruction itself has become a historical monument, and that the ruins should be preserved as is, a visible reminder of Taliban iconoclasm.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2019
• Here is the flip side of today’s cheaper, faster news media, bemoaned for its obsession with pageviews and social-media traction, its cursory fact-checking and thirst for the sensational: Viciousness also breeds iconoclasm.
  — Alex Wagner, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
• Our era’s most fervent passions, after all, seek not elevation but leveling; they are attracted not to idealization but to iconoclasm.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018

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