iconoclastic

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Examples of iconoclastic

  • This third volume sees language origins research becoming more eclectic and in many ways more iconoclastic.

  • The author has produced a sophisticated assessment which is sympathetic but not sycophantic, critical on occasion but not iconoclastic.

  • In other words: competition is either an ineffective means to a valuable end or an effective means to a worthless end - iconoclastic indeed.

  • Perhaps chief among them is the relative dearth of contemporary sources reflecting the vibrant and iconoclastic culture of the hip-hop generation.

  • The performance thus assumes a satirical and iconoclastic tenor.

  • This optimism, when coupled with intelligence, lack of respect for established forms, and iconoclastic energy, may be the source of a lifetime's achievement.

  • They soon discover that they are not living their life; their speciality is living them, and the result is an iconoclastic insanity.

  • The book is indeed comprehensive, but it is hardly iconoclastic, and is certainly much better read in parts than as a whole.

  • Naturally, his somewhat iconoclastic stance has not always received universal commendation but it has sparked off a lively and healthy international debate.

  • Or was this simply the prurient and irreverent indulgence of a young, iconoclastic composer?

  • We do not know the frequency of such iconoclastic acts, nor the typicality of known examples in terms of their targets and the repertoire of actions they employed.

  • Henderson's iconoclastic vision was far ahead of its time.

  • The radical pragmatist knows that we must continue to be iconoclastic about structures - cultural or social, discursive or institutional - so that we may be respectful of people.

  • One had to be iconoclastic.

  • Satirizing the colonial power was thus part of a larger iconoclastic and subversive undertaking to bring a threatening political force down to earth, and where possible to insignificance.

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