Example sentences for: iconoclasm

How can you use “iconoclasm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Spock's purported iconoclasm is twofold.

  • Howls of iconoclasm and protests against tainting the official chamber with Tammany Hall vote-buying rang then and ring now.

  • Slate's Walter Kirn, however, dissents, condemning Nothing Sacred as self-righteous "phony Hollywood iconoclasm."


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