image-breaker
Example Sentences
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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)
I do not know how the remarks of the image-breaker may strike others, but I feel that they put me on my defence with regard to much of my teaching.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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
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
The image-breaker is exalted above my Lord Bishop in all his glory of lawn sleeves and piety in uniform by men like Wanless and his friends.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
