philistinism

Example Sentences

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The Kennedy Center has become a repository of philistinism, much to my regret.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

Martin Bernheimer, music critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1965 to 1996, was a Pulitzer Prize winner who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Profit-hunger, philistinism and misanthropy are and always have been at the core of the enterprise.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2018

The best works produced under Company patronage are unparalleled in Indian art and show a sympathy with the Mughal world quite at odds with prevailing stereotypes of colonial philistinism and insensitivity.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

We may talk wisely and at length of his commonplaceness, lack of spice, philistinism; he can be counted on to amuse us.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard