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Madonna Ciccone revolutionized the fashion world with her iconoclastic sense of style, sometimes offending people who are not very open-minded"for instance, her rhinestone cross earrings, which made many Christian groups ban her CDs"or who have no sense of humor"like Pepsi, which didn't like it when she danced in front of some burning crosses.† (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

One of the ironies of America's fast food industry is that a business so dedicated to conformity was founded by iconoclasts and self-made men, by entrepreneurs willing to defy conventional opinion.† (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001

Even the iconoclastic poet William Blake hinted that we should read between the lines.† (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

Iconoclast.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

This was Cuba, of course, the hemisphere's small, lonely iconoclast.† (source)

He also tests well; comes from a strong, loving, Leave It to Beaver family, and can be sort of funny in the arch, smug, iconoclastic way college kids need to be.† (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

Luke's an iconoclast.† (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

Celia's destination was Havana, with her Great-Aunt Alicia, known for her cooking and her iconoclasm.† (source)

It could be iconoclasm, how do they know?† (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

He is both iconoclastic and constructive in his attempt to sweep away long-familiar beliefs on the basis of new scientific evidence.

Her iconoclasm comes from a deep personal instinct to distrust all conventions.

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During the Reformation, iconoclasts destroyed much religious art.

I appealed to his iconoclast, millionaire rodeo-cowboy ego.† (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Dale Lasater's iconoclasm seems bred in the bone.† (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001

I have become a reformer, and, like all reformers, an iconoclast.† (source)

Now let the learned look upon this picture and say if iconoclasm can further go:† (source)

There are some, perhaps, who while not altogether inaccessible to that poetic reproach just alluded to, may yet on behalf of the new order, be disposed to parry it; and this to the extent of iconoclasm, if need be.† (source) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924

She had the neophyte's shock of discovery that, outside of tracts, conservatives do not tremble and find no answer when an iconoclast turns on them, but retort with agility and confusing statistics.† (source) Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920

Mr Grein, the hardy iconoclast who first launched my plays on the stage alongside Ghosts and The Wild Duck, exclaimed that I have shattered his ideals.† (source)

On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am Bougon, whose name was, in reality, Madame Burgon, as we have found out, but this iconoclast, Courfeyrac, respected nothing,— Ma'am Bougon observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his new coat.† (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

And in a democratic society it is not the iconoclast who seems most revolutionary, but the purist.† (source)

Jackson, in his way, was the archetype of the new American—ignorant, pushful, impatient of restraint and precedent, an iconoclast, a Philistine, an Anglophobe in every fibre.† (source)

[28] § 3 /Lost Distinctions/—This general iconoclasm reveals itself especially in a disdain for most of the niceties of modern English.† (source)

The incessant neologisms of the national speech sweep the whole country almost instantly, and the iconoclastic changes which its popular spoken form are undergoing show themselves from coast to coast.† (source)

In particular, the generation born in the New World was uncouth and iconoclastic;[16] the only world it knew was a rough world, and the virtues that environment engendered were not those of niceness, but those of enterprise and resourcefulness.† (source)

English now has the brakes on, but American continues to leap in the dark, and the prodigality of its movement is all the [Pg029] indication that is needed of its intrinsic health, its capacity to meet the ever-changing needs of a restless and iconoclastic people, constantly fluent in racial composition, and disdainful of hampering traditions.† (source)

Behind it is the gigantic impulse that I have described in earlier chapters: the impulse of an egoistic and iconoclastic people, facing a new order of life in highly self-conscious freedom, to break a relatively stable language, long since emerged from its period of growth, to their novel and multitudinous needs, and, above all, to their experimental and impatient spirit.† (source)

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