iconoclasm

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Recent Examples of iconoclasm Over its past decade, no leader of Signal has embodied that iconoclasm as visibly as Meredith Whittaker. Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024 Linklater hasn’t always seemed comfortable making studio films — indeed, producer Scott Rudin had to talk him into directing this one — but School of Rock threads the needle beautifully between Linklater’s slacker iconoclasm and immensely satisfying general-audiences entertainment. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2024 Fashion’s instinctual reaction to moments like this one is to retract and revert to the tried-and-true, and few of Owens’s peers have his instincts for iconoclasm. José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024 Missing masterpieces For as long as humans have been making art, natural disasters, the ravages of time, theft and iconoclasm have threatened their creations’ survival. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for iconoclasm 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for iconoclasm
Noun
  • There may be slight deviations from the podcast audio.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In comparison, this year's deviation, while notable, is less extreme.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Honesty-humility’s impact on physical health is limited, potentially because it is more strongly linked to behaviors with a moral dimension, such as avoiding deviance, rather than physical health habits like exercise or diet.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • For thousands of years, mental illness could only be explained by supernatural forces or moral deviance.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • Snuffer is a lawyer who lives in Utah and was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2013 for apostasy.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • This is the apostasy of the age, refusing to give these spiritually lost characters their proper complexity.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
Noun
  • To arrive at this integration, however, he must be stripped, like Voss, of his own pretensions and the schisms within his self.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Attending the new pope is a revelation that really could throw the church into open schism.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • However, Barnier's austerity plan—which includes €40 billion ($42 billion) in spending cuts and €20 billion ($21 billion) in new taxes—has heightened tensions, fueling discord in the National Assembly and precipitating the current political crisis.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • This internal discord is music to Kitson’s ears, whose goal is to have Irish Republicans murder each other.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024

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“Iconoclasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iconoclasm. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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