Philistine

Example Sentences

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This message is so blunt that even I, a Marxist and philistine, found its message a bit too clobbering.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2019

QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

ISH: What I do when you start talking in a movie theater, you boorish philistine!

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019

Nietzsche is presented as the great apostle of the free spirit, the nonconformist and the rugged individualist living in the age of the philistine and the “last man.”

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker