image-breaker

Example Sentences

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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

Any of us who dare love the iconoclast would be one if we dared sufficiently, and in this work I surely was an image-breaker, for the old house was more than it seemed.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

Once in every half a century it is needful that the image-breaker should come along and knock on the head the brainless images of cant.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

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