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#1 2010-11-21 11:50:03

burred
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An iconoclassic

Iconoclassic seems to be understood as a intensified version of an icon: a classic icon. The destructiveness of _-clastic_ is no longer an ingredient.

Carpe diem
The one thing they have in common is that they were spoken in movies, survived through decades and have become iconoclassic and that somewhere sometime ago, someone held a pen and wrote these lines on paper.

Book review
For millions of devoted readers, J.D. Salinger remains synonymous with The Catcher in the Rye. The author and his New Yorker stories—most notably “Raise the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction”—are apt to appear as mere extensions of the modern iconoclassic.

Linux paean
The 80’s iconoclassic Tron used Unix render farms to bring the special effects to life.

Clothes paean
Houdini is foremost known for the now iconoclassic hoodie Power Houdini.

Comics
his work was speaking for itself when asked by the editor of the Dandy to illustrate the top iconoclassic character Beryl the Peril.

the book take sideways glances at the human comedy, many celebrating the wickedly egalitarian … destined to become an iconoclassic.
snippet from http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-273774691.html

Brazilian hooch
This 100% family owned company now in its fifth generation celebrated its 160th anniversary last year; a true Brazilian iconoclassic.

Uses of iconoclassic are not all simple reshapings. I peg the following as blends of classic periods or issues, and iconoclasm.

Historical ruins
inside these churches and in some rockcuts there are monochrome geometrical motifs and crosses from the Iconoclassic period when religious pictures were forbidden.

Religion and art
I struggled with huge iconoclassic issues just last year. I’m an open-minded Lutheran that sits in one of the most close-minded, traditionalist synods.

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#2 2010-11-21 12:13:29

DavidTuggy
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Re: An iconoclassic

It is a commentary on some of our culture’s values that destruction is so admired that iconoclasm can be easily considered classic. But it works for eggcorning, as far as I can see.

Last edited by DavidTuggy (2010-11-21 12:13:59)


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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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