iconoclastic

In a sentence

Six example sentences with iconoclastic, each labelled with its topic.

• The iconoclastic first show hung the museum's own donor portraits upside down, and half the board resigned within a month.

  Art

• The iconoclastic design put the service pipes on the outside, which offended everyone who wanted a facade to hide machinery.

  Architecture

• Punk was iconoclastic by design, and its first records were made deliberately badly to insult the studios that had ignored it.

  Music

• The iconoclastic professor opened the term by arguing that the entire canon of ethics rested on a grammatical mistake.

  Philosophy

• Her iconoclastic paper attacked the field's favorite model, and reviewers took three years to admit the data held up.

  Science

• The iconoclastic economist argued that the central bank should be abolished, and won a prize for saying so.

  Economics

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