The way that we use the word iconoclast now more often has to do with the spirit of intellectual or artistic inquiry. From LearnThat.org. [www.iconoclastbooks.com/whatis.html]
The 54-year-old iconoclast is everything his longtime readers would expect — articulate, witty, obstinate and enigmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Moore Has No Hoorays for Hollywood | Disinformation] Reference
Every iconoclast is a rebel, a prophet who knows the illegitimacy of the god-king's reign and how that may one day bring it down. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Domain] Reference
Post "the sixties" everyone likes to be called an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
And he's an iconoclast which is really fatally attractive. From Wordnik.com. [At My Table] Reference
I idly entered "iconoclast" into Google and landed at this column by Charles Krauthammer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference
PatC cites "iconoclast" as her berserk-making entry. From Wordnik.com. [Shakesville] Reference
He is an iconoclast, but an immensely patriotic one. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Medal Of Freedom Awards Ceremony] Reference
Science, no doubt, is an iconoclast in the matter. '. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Robert Altman, the artist and iconoclast was 81 years old. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference
Meeting an iconoclast in these parts was a sumptuous treat. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
(Perhaps that explains his love of iconoclast Rush Limbaugh.). From Wordnik.com. [Big Brother's Holding Company] Reference
He was an iconoclast before he developed neoliberal shibboleths. From Wordnik.com. [The Newsweek 100] Reference
This all fascinated Malcolm, something of an iconoclast herself. From Wordnik.com. [Annals Of The Law Of Libel] Reference
Quite the Renaissance man, as we already knew, and an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York's Epic James Franco Profile] Reference
Louis XIV., had been shattered under the touch of iconoclast death. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
All of this makes Samara a brilliant iconoclast, or just plain crazy. From Wordnik.com. [Sky-High Dream] Reference
Into modern art he pitches with all the force of a genuine iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I have no ambition to become either a cynic, a pessimist, or an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
Mr. BENSON: Well, the deal was that Bob Wills was, first of all, an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [Asleep at the Wheel: Driving Western Swing] Reference
The Spirit of Democracy is a bold iconoclast, and goes about smashing our idols. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Yet how would things go with such a perplexing iconoclast at the head of affairs?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
In fact almost nothing is connected with Langgaard, an iconoclast in all respects. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
But Boris Yeltsin -- populist, iconoclast, fantasist -- is not just a Communist flake. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's Challenge] Reference
Right alongside the true faith, the conscience of an iconoclast has always run in the family. From Wordnik.com. [Why Is Buchanan So Angry?] Reference
‘I wonder whether he carved them himself?’ said Laura, ignoring the work of some iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
Some believe the candidate has watered down his image as an iconoclast and needs to rebuild it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2008] Reference
You have to be an iconoclast and not really care about money or stability or family or anything. From Wordnik.com. [Gambling Fever] Reference
Published in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War, it solidified his reputation as an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [Vonnegut Memorial Library To Open In Indianapolis] Reference
She was not, however, an iconoclast or a reformer, and she held sternly to the tenets of her origins. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
I don't think this is a game-changer, but it's, I think, a good reinforcement of his brand as an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2008] Reference
It's a constant series of compromises that takes away from the very essence of what it means to be an iconoclast. From Wordnik.com. [Video Killed The Rock Star] Reference
Then, this past March, I attended a program honoring another journalistic iconoclast, the late I.F. Stone, and there was Levine. From Wordnik.com. [Levine in Winter] Reference
YELLIN: Turning to McCain, he has built his name as an iconoclast, so there's a strong argument for choosing a Washington outsider. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008] Reference
In March the band went into the studio with Albini, a highly principled iconoclast whose contempt for major labels is well documented. From Wordnik.com. [You Call This Nirvana?] Reference
Here Maneri, son of jazz iconoclast and educator Joe Maneri, bows unexpected sounds out of his violin and viola, some through distortion. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Talents] Reference
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