Sentence examples for iconoclastic act from inspiring English sources

But this cosy utopia is soon to be shattered by the hottest and most iconoclastic act in rap.

Then its an ice-cream cone, a knobbly rock, or something sheered off in some iconoclastic act of vandalism.

The contrast of these two forms, one robust, the other ghostly, also evokes a bit of history: Mr. Rauschenberg's famous iconoclastic act of erasing a de Kooning drawing and then retitling it "Erased de Kooning".

This course explores the relevance iconoclastic acts and attitudes had for production of landscape paintings and prints in the Northern Netherlands of the late 16th and 17th centuries.

It is this iconoclastic deed that changed international criminal justice irreversibly.

The firmly TV-MA ethos of the show jibes with this iconoclastic comic's act, which tends toward the graphic and irreverent.

What Prince created here was complicated, an elaborate system for reassuring himself he was still the king, even as he shifted from iconoclastic superstar to nostalgia act.

This was seen as an iconoclastic heresy and as acts of sacrilege by the medieval Church, as well as by Catholics to this day.

Gregory condemned Leo's act, launching the Iconoclastic Controversy and causing Leo to plot against his life.

As Lord Judge said last Friday of the 2003 act: "satirical, or iconoclastic, or rude comment, the expression of unpopular or unfashionable opinion about serious or trivial matters, banter or humour, even if distasteful to some or painful to those subjected to it should and no doubt will continue at their customary level, quite undiminished by this legislation".

The third one-act, Albert Innaurato's iconoclastic black comedy "Doubtless," is, in contrast, nasty and surreal.