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Example sentences for: iconoclasm

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It seems to me absurd to try and read an image like The Holy Virgin Mary 1996 in purely formal terms, because it would be to apply aesthetic criteria and art-historical comparisons to a work that draws its power primarily from iconoclasm and irreverence.
Howls of iconoclasm and protests against tainting the official chamber with Tammany Hall vote-buying rang then and ring now.
Orgies of high-mindedness like the Volunteer Summit--four presidents, Colin Powell, the networks, celebrities, corporations, foundations, all huffing and puffing in Philadelphia--are a cheap target for knee-jerk iconoclasm.
Southwest's corporate culture of officially sanctioned iconoclasm, if there can be such a thing, is far from typical.
Turning the cutout letters of Emily Post's Advice to Debutantes into a debutante's dress (designed by Evans and Wong, 1996), or knitting the preamble to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence into a cashmere sweater (designed by Joseph Golden, 1997), or even just making a dress out of random alphabet-lace (French, late 1920s)--all these are ways of flaunting modern fashion's basic iconoclasm.