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English to Bangla Meaning of iconoclast - প্রতিমাচূর্ণকারী




Definitions of iconoclast in English

noun

(1) A destroyer of images used in religious worship

(2) Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions

(3) Someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions

(4) Detractor

Examples of iconoclast in English

(1) Alienated from his children and deserted by old friends during this banishment, Sakharov took comfort in the company of a fellow exile, Elena Bonner, an iconoclast and rebel no less difficult than Sakharov himself.

(2) Although the family returned to England in 1933 (after a brief spell in Burma), Spike retained the sensibility of an outsider, an iconoclast and a rebel.

(3) In his last words on Sadat, the author describes him as u2018a visionary, an iconoclast , a maverick, and a gambleru2019.

(4) Ever a non-conformist to the point of being termed an iconoclast in thought and approach, he was distinctly different and differently distinctive.

(5) It may belong in its iconoclastic period, the Sixties, but its subversive attack on state institutions rings as true as ever in our era of spin.

(6) In the 8th century, he said, iconoclasts tried to destroy the icon, but a young man, seeking to save it, threw it into the sea.

(7) Koerner uses it to illustrate Luther's condemnation of iconoclasts - fellow Protestants who destroyed u2018idolatrousu2019 art.

(8) Once irreverent and perhaps even iconoclastic , these shows relied too heavily on his reputation and weakening force of personality.

(9) Many have come to revere him as an iconoclastically charming artist or even a sort of outsider artist, while just as many really can't stand the guy.

(10) Many of your American films center on unappreciated iconoclasts .

(11) They're not iconoclasts or anti-popstars to an American audience, but the pop heroes you really wish you could be.

(12) For twenty years he was a star performer at the Cambridge history podium - theatrical, witty, irreverent, iconoclastic .

(13) The Reformation reacted iconoclastically to all religious imagery, with the loss of much stained glass, though heraldic windows for private houses and some churches were still produced.

(14) But not in Luther's Germany: alarmed by the extremism of the iconoclasts , Luther shifted from indifference to pictures, to positive approval of them.

(15) Evidence of religious art is scanty, possibly because of its destruction by Protestant iconoclasts at the end of the century, but portraiture seems to have occupied a position of importance.

(16) Ulysses recently has drawn the fire of literary iconoclasts .

(17) Destruction is, by its nature, difficult to confirm, but all the evidence indicates that iconoclasts in the medieval Islamic world only rarely destroyed images, in the sense of physically obliterating them.

(18) I know someone who iconoclastically called their child Gingham Blueberry, and it had no ill effects whatsoever.

(19) After the iconoclasts lost favour, and the church once again accepted icons, the painting rose from the depths.

(20) More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.

(21) Scouse wit undercuts bombastic couplet, and the text is presented irreverently and iconoclastically .

(22) Then there were the iconoclasts who dropped by to flip through the books about a man who, in a famous speech in 1929, had declared that no religious organisation could lead man to the ultimate truth.

(23) Musicians, designers, aspiring actors and other would-be iconoclasts have settled the area, as have young professionals opting for a less-structured lifestyle.

(24) Then there are the iconoclasts : people who watch these shows alone and prefer nothing in the way of human involvement.

(25) Two of the boldest American iconoclasts were film-maker John Ford and classical composer Aaron Copland.

(26) If official policy destroyed Stuart Britain's important collections, disasters also came at a lower level as Puritan iconoclasts embarked on an orgy of destruction of religious art.

(27) Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.

(28) His criticisms are never iconoclastic and his sympathy never sycophantic.

(29) The iconoclasts wanted to rid the church of images, icons, even paintings.

(30) Today, the 22-year-old admits that she is inspired by iconoclasts such as Balenciaga, Vivienne Westwood and Junya Watanabe, but enjoys a whole spectrum of designers.

synonyms of iconoclast

critic

skeptic

heretic

unbeliever

dissident

dissenter

infidel

rebel

renegade

mutineer

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Published: 12 Mar, 2023

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