Sentence examples for smashed idols from inspiring English sources
They smashed "idols", defaced statues, demolished stained glass, ravaged rood screens.
Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on "graven images".
The video, he said, is a public relations move meant to affirm Iself-representationasion as "the real Muslims" willing to smash idols.
Whereas Mr. Biko was an iconoclast who smashed the idols of white supremacy, he was only 31 when he was murdered.
They burned down the holy scriptures and images, and smashed the idols.
But smashing idols soon became the aesthetic of a rebel without a cause, idol-smashing artists themselves being idol smashed.
Goldsworthy covers his bloody terrain with the brusque authority of a centurion, demolishing myths and smashing idols.
Latour's framework makes it possible to see that the gothic's politics are neither modern nor anti-modern, but "nonmodern". It exposes hidden truths or smash idols not in order to liberate some long-repressed, authentic human nature, but rather to stress the need for the constant revision and renewal of the mediating images and icons that make collective life possible.
She doesn't get needy like, say, the Christian God, who wants His devotees to smash other idols.
