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iconoclastic

/ahy-kon-uh-klas-tik/US // aɪˌkɒn əˈklæs tɪk //

颠覆性的,标志性的,偶像派,偶像派的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, etc., as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity: an iconoclastic architect whose buildings are like monumental sculptures.
    • : breaking or destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration.

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Examples

  • The One Thing to See To appreciate Bukele’s iconoclastic political instincts, here’s a clip of his speech to the UN General Assembly in 2019 not long after he took office.

  • Iconoclastic individuals are our heroes, and big, bad institutions—monarchies, patriarchies, churches—are the villains.

  • But the vividly painted remains are still considered by UNESCO to be one of the best examples of post-iconoclastic Byzantine art.

  • I respect Rabbi Yosef's erudition and his brave and sometimes iconoclastic halakhic (Jewish legal) writings.

  • He could afford to be iconoclastic, largely unburdened by the demands of ideology as he experimented with policy solutions.

  • “I saw gay marriage as just another liberal iconoclastic attack on traditional culture,” he said.

  • After all, however, the most revolutionary and iconoclastic reform in the new China is the changed policy of the schools.

  • So iconoclastic an outburst was sure to elicit vindicators of the world's faith as it had long been held.

  • It was long a pleasure to believe so and natural, too, until Nottebohm came with his iconoclastic evidence to the contrary.

  • The iconoclastic masters of that cluster of magnificent tenements, the Bucoleon, had especial claims upon his recollection.

  • On this, as we shall in another chapter see, the popes had revolted from their iconoclastic sovereigns of Constantinople.