image-breaker
Example Sentences
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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 Winthrop Packard
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
