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)
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 Bartlett, William Chauncey
He was alternately the worshipper and image-breaker of etiquette, ministerial and opposition party thereof, as his vanity dictated.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
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
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
