image-breaker
Example Sentences
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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 Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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 William Chauncey Bartlett
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 Henry Edward Krehbiel
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
He appeared to be more of an image-breaker than he really was.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
