iconoclasm

Examples

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• At a time when Americans were tired of autocratic, top-down rule, Pasquel's iconoclasm was refreshing.

  Academic text (1994)

• Hungarians shared in this iconoclasm as it swept central and eastern Europe.

  Academic text (2000)

• For some, it seems that iconoclasm isn't American if it conflicts with the U.S. government's point of view.

  Academic text (2003)

• Divisions are less clear and authoritarian rule much subtler, making iconoclasm much more difficult.

  Academic text (2000)

• With this, a dominant feature of the modern Chinese identity took shape: the intertwining of nationalism and iconoclasm.

  Academic text (1991)

• First, it cautions against viewing the past ten years as a period of widespread iconoclasm in Hungary and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc.

  Academic text (2000)

• Other antiquities, most notably the Buddhas of Bamiyan, were destroyed by the Taliban in a campaign of iconoclasm in 2001.

  Academic text (2011)

• The project to discourage the use of bieri led to a period of iconoclasm when vast numbers of sculptures were ritually confiscated and destroyed.

  Academic text (2010)

• Indeed, "during early and mid-sixteenth-century outbreaks of iconoclasm, English Protestants demolished or mutilated many funerary monuments." 6

  Academic text (2016)

• The artist's bold iconoclasm challenged traditional approaches to beauty and sparked a heated debate.

Antonyms

I

iconism

9.9

A practice of worshipping religious images like paintings or statues

How Radical

iconoclasm

• Formal

1 9.9

rejection

180 3.0

dissent

• Formal

73 6.6

criticism

512 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology