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Iconoclast meaning
One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation. | One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm. | One who attacks cherished beliefs; a maverick.
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An album of pop standards, it became the best-selling record of his career and cemented his status as a musical iconoclast; at the time, however, it wasn't necessarily an obvious career move.
And while he loves taking on the establishment, he’s very much an iconoclast, whose use of humor in official settings is also a rarity in Japan’s beige officialdom.
She’s an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds.
An iconoclast and political outsider, Milei was elected in November amid a burgeoning economic crisis and skyrocketing inflation that has long beleaguered the large South American country.
The Iconoclast: Was she scared?
Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young has always been an iconoclast, leaving behind folk-rock stardom to pursue his own muse through realms of squalling guitar feedback and bespoke audio devices.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who began pressing for an end to U.S. support for war in Yemen as a lonely voice during the Obama years, recalled that Biden "was occasionally a foreign policy iconoclast" during his long career in the Senate.
The New York iconoclast eventually became homeless before dying in relative obscurity in 1990, but his music is finally receiving belated critical appreciation.
A letter by the Patriarch Germanus written before 726 to two Iconoclast bishops says that "now whole towns and multitudes of people are in considerable agitation over this matter" but there is little written evidence of the debate.
Iconoclasm Leo's most striking legislative reforms dealt with religious matters, especially iconoclasm ("Icon-breaking," therefore an iconoclast is an "Icon-breaker").
Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes for mechanical systems.
Thus, it can be argued that by being part of the dogmatic "horos" against the iconoclast heresy, the teaching on the "real presence" of Christ in the eucharist is indeed a dogma of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
While Theodore was in exile, the leadership of the Studite congregation was assumed by the Abbot Leontios, who for a time adopted the iconoclast position and won over many individuals monks to his party.