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Definition of iconoclasm in English: iconoclasmnoun ʌɪˈkɒnəklaz(ə)maɪˈkɑnəˌklæzəm mass noun1The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices. 对信仰(或制度、传统价值、习俗等)的攻击(或排斥) Example sentencesExamples - Before that, the Young Vic hosted his two-hour adaptation of Hamlet starring Adrian Lester, which was more than iconoclasm, and doubtless an exercise in brevity only achievable by Brook himself.
- Only a heightened style of performance can make sense of such iconoclasm, but here, especially in the first half, Wrentmore takes it at such a languid pace that the epigrammatic power of Orton's language is utterly drained away.
- But surely there's a difference between iconoclasm and the blind, flailing in the dark that might, just might, if she's lucky, cast an idol at Simpleton's feet.
- In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than E.E. Cummings.
- Robert Altman has always prided himself on his iconoclasm.
- The irony and sometimes childish iconoclasm are still there but this is a film in which a burning sense of outrage and frustration also dominate and set the tone.
- Back in the '60s, the left was the home of humor, iconoclasm, pleasure.
- Bill's connections are more direct but his statements struck me as an interest in full consideration rather than in character assassination or iconoclasm.
- Despite the come-and-have-a-go iconoclasm of his album's title, MacInnes, 25, is softly spoken, charming and shy.
- I find Stone and Parker's alleged iconoclasm pretty boring.
- Noah Webster was inventing American iconoclasm when he decided to oust the ‘u’ from words like ‘glamour.’
- We love them for their energy and iconoclasm and straightforwardness, and then get iffy if they put their perception of hurting human realities above convention.
- No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
- Equal parts traditionalism, irony and iconoclasm, thirtysomethings' universe - including work and leisure - gravitates around the home.
- Finally, Middle East specialist and translator Fred Reed explores the rise of militant iconoclasm in Syria in his new non-fiction study Shattered Images.
- Elite law schools cherish robust debate, iconoclasm, and arguing issues from all sides, right?
- Shot in grainy black and white on a handheld camera and peppered with confrontational jump cuts, Godard's movie epitomised the cool iconoclasm of the New Wave.
- With the final arranged to coincide with London Fashion Week in September, there is obvious potential for a bit of 1977 iconoclasm, as well as great exposure.
- Paradoxically, the film-making movement which seemed to stand for iconoclasm and freedom became one of the most codified and puritanical.
- Well, Jeff Daniels, who's heavily bearded to indicate his iconoclasm, crashes his plane, and sends his 12-year-old daughter up in an ultralight to finish the goose-guiding.
2The rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; the doctrine of iconoclasts. 捣毁圣像;偶像打破主义 Example sentencesExamples - The staff stands for Aaron and his power without mimetically representing him, as the painting seems paradoxically to observe the Hebraic ethos of iconoclasm that the Jewish leader first violated.
- For all its fascination, Jacoby's discussion of Jewish iconoclasm could do with a touch more theology.
- Islamic iconoclasm is rooted in Jewish iconoclasm, historically.
- On iconoclasm there's the Catholic view here, the Orthodox, and a shorter but more balanced outline here.
- Though there was iconoclasm at the beginning, as zealots decapitated statues and the like in temples and shrines, this soon passed as sultans cracked down on it.
OriginLate 18th century: from iconoclast, on the pattern of pairs such as enthusiast, enthusiasm. Definition of iconoclasm in US English: iconoclasmnounīˈkänəˌklazəmaɪˈkɑnəˌklæzəm 1The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices. 对信仰(或制度、传统价值、习俗等)的攻击(或排斥) Example sentencesExamples - But surely there's a difference between iconoclasm and the blind, flailing in the dark that might, just might, if she's lucky, cast an idol at Simpleton's feet.
- We love them for their energy and iconoclasm and straightforwardness, and then get iffy if they put their perception of hurting human realities above convention.
- Robert Altman has always prided himself on his iconoclasm.
- With the final arranged to coincide with London Fashion Week in September, there is obvious potential for a bit of 1977 iconoclasm, as well as great exposure.
- Elite law schools cherish robust debate, iconoclasm, and arguing issues from all sides, right?
- Only a heightened style of performance can make sense of such iconoclasm, but here, especially in the first half, Wrentmore takes it at such a languid pace that the epigrammatic power of Orton's language is utterly drained away.
- Before that, the Young Vic hosted his two-hour adaptation of Hamlet starring Adrian Lester, which was more than iconoclasm, and doubtless an exercise in brevity only achievable by Brook himself.
- The irony and sometimes childish iconoclasm are still there but this is a film in which a burning sense of outrage and frustration also dominate and set the tone.
- Back in the '60s, the left was the home of humor, iconoclasm, pleasure.
- Finally, Middle East specialist and translator Fred Reed explores the rise of militant iconoclasm in Syria in his new non-fiction study Shattered Images.
- Paradoxically, the film-making movement which seemed to stand for iconoclasm and freedom became one of the most codified and puritanical.
- Bill's connections are more direct but his statements struck me as an interest in full consideration rather than in character assassination or iconoclasm.
- Shot in grainy black and white on a handheld camera and peppered with confrontational jump cuts, Godard's movie epitomised the cool iconoclasm of the New Wave.
- I find Stone and Parker's alleged iconoclasm pretty boring.
- Despite the come-and-have-a-go iconoclasm of his album's title, MacInnes, 25, is softly spoken, charming and shy.
- No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
- In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than E.E. Cummings.
- Well, Jeff Daniels, who's heavily bearded to indicate his iconoclasm, crashes his plane, and sends his 12-year-old daughter up in an ultralight to finish the goose-guiding.
- Equal parts traditionalism, irony and iconoclasm, thirtysomethings' universe - including work and leisure - gravitates around the home.
- Noah Webster was inventing American iconoclasm when he decided to oust the ‘u’ from words like ‘glamour.’
2The rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical; the doctrine of iconoclasts. 捣毁圣像;偶像打破主义 Example sentencesExamples - The staff stands for Aaron and his power without mimetically representing him, as the painting seems paradoxically to observe the Hebraic ethos of iconoclasm that the Jewish leader first violated.
- Islamic iconoclasm is rooted in Jewish iconoclasm, historically.
- On iconoclasm there's the Catholic view here, the Orthodox, and a shorter but more balanced outline here.
- For all its fascination, Jacoby's discussion of Jewish iconoclasm could do with a touch more theology.
- Though there was iconoclasm at the beginning, as zealots decapitated statues and the like in temples and shrines, this soon passed as sultans cracked down on it.
OriginLate 18th century: from iconoclast, on the pattern of pairs such as enthusiast, enthusiasm. |