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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)
  • Dale Lasater's iconoclasm seems bred in the bone.†  (source)
  • Celia's destination was Havana, with her Great-Aunt Alicia, known for her cooking and her iconoclasm.†  (source)
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  • I appealed to his iconoclast, millionaire rodeo-cowboy ego.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Luke's an iconoclast.†  (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)
  • Now let the learned look upon this picture and say if iconoclasm can further go:†  (source)
  • This was Cuba, of course, the hemisphere's small, lonely iconoclast.†  (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)
  • [28] § 3 /Lost Distinctions/—This general iconoclasm reveals itself especially in a disdain for most of the niceties of modern English†  (source)
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