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    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)
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    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)
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    I have become a reformer, and, like all reformers, an iconoclast.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Even the iconoclastic poet William Blake hinted that we should read between the lines.†  (source)
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    It could be iconoclasm, how do they know?†  (source)
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    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)
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    Iconoclast.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Celia's destination was Havana, with her Great-Aunt Alicia, known for her cooking and her iconoclasm.†  (source)
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    And in a democratic society it is not the iconoclast who seems most revolutionary, but the purist.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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