image-breaker

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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

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)

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 Packard, Winthrop

In that case our friend the image-breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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