image-breaker
Example Sentences
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To his contemporaries he appears as an image-breaker, but to the clearer vision of to-day he stands an unshakable barrier to lawless iconoclasm.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
He was alternately the worshipper and image-breaker of etiquette, ministerial and opposition party thereof, as his vanity dictated.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
In attacking the masters, irreverent youth is only defending itself; the iconoclast or image-breaker is a Stylite who erects himself as an image, an icon.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)
He appeared to be more of an image-breaker than he really was.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
Such was his simplicity of speech and manner, such his transparent sincerity, that it was next to impossible to quarrel with the gentle image-breaker.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
