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
Swed pays tribute to a writer “who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2019
Volle, 70, claimed the refusals showed the philistinism of modern publishing, which was “abandoning literary works that are not easy to read or that will not set sales records”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2017
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
Is Instrumentalism only283 philistinism called by a more descriptive name?
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
