iconoclastic

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But his progress towards similar fame in the top division was cut short by a knee injury which ended his career when he was 27, so now he is far better known as the iconoclastic manager who revived two ailing clubs.

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  1. Of or pertaining to iconoclasm, or to the opinions and practices of the Iconoclasts; given to breaking images, or to exposing errors of belief or false pretensions: as, iconoclastic enthusiasm. Both were embellished with a profusion of statues; most of those at York were destroyed in the first emotions of iconoclastic zeal. H. Swinburne, Travels through Spain, xiiv. Yet this question, thus prematurely agitated by the iconoclastic emperors, and at this period of Christianity so fatally mistimed, is one of the most grave, and it should seem inevitable controversies, arising out of our religion. Milman, Latin Christianity, iv. 7.

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  • Every nation seems to have its share of freakish behavior and iconoclastic organizations They brought out charts and graphs, and I was convinced. —  Analog May, 1971
  • The ritualism and faith displayed by some Indians is foreign to our sceptical and highly iconoclastic (religiously, at least) worldview. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • The Elric stories are deliberately iconoclastic, taking an ironic stance in opposition to traditional / Tolkienian high fantasy and their often conservative worldviews. —  SFFaudio
  • You're a man who is neither poor nor powerless; surely it's worth taking a moment to consider before bashing out a self-consciously "iconoclastic" post? —  Antonia's blog
  • Canada's top filmmakers create iconoclastic, personal film "odes" to their hometowns, capturing a cosmopolitan picture of contemporary Canada. —  Broadcaster - Headline News
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  1. = Portuguese iconoclastico; as iconoclast + -ic.
 

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