characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
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destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited
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Iconoclastic \I*con`o*clas"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. --Milman.
In the author's iconoclastic view, the years 1992-2020 will see per capita real income in the U.S. grow at an annual average rate of at least 2.5%, but probably closer to 3%, up from an average of 2% between 1950 and 1986.
But iconoclastic riots by fanatic Protestants boded ill for the future of an ambitious artist.
The former bitter competitors agreed an iconoclastic deal.
Combining sight, sound and text in a unique, exciting manner, Mr. Lyubimov's work stirred the imaginations of everyone from Broadway's Harold Prince to the late, iconoclastic American director Alan Schneider.
"He embodied the great American virtue of protest and dissidence and speaking truth to authority," Rudd said. "He was kind of like our Thoreau." Jack Hoffman borrowed a quote from his brother to praise his iconoclastic life.
In 1922, he graduated from Harvard University and moved to Paris, where he studied with famed music teacher Nadia Boulanger and met the iconoclastic composer, Erik Satie, who was a great influence on him.
It is both a practical exhibit and a symbol of Mr. Venturi's status within his own profession: iconoclastic, influential and yet sometimes almost an exile.
Brown University is a 224-year-old Ivy League institution with dwindling donations and an iconoclastic curriculum.
Mark Morris, the bad boy of modern dance, returned to the place that backed him long before he went to Belgium to cause an international stir with iconoclastic ballets.
Yet more iconoclastic (and recently more successful) forecasting teams at Cambridge, Liverpool and City universities have all had their funding withdrawn over the past decade.