iconoclastic
Speech parts
1. iconoclastic - Adjective
2. iconoclastic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
"Accept the true from whatever source it come," is sound rabbinic doctrine - even if it be from the pages of a devout Christian expositor or of an iconoclastic Biblical scholar, Jewish or non-Jewish.
So you can take your pick as to which Mundell you prefer; but the Nobel committee basically honored Mundell the younger, the economist who was iconoclastic enough to imagine that Canada, of all places, was the economy of the future--and was right.
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.