philistinism

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Not that I think the movies are dying, any more than they have been dying for the past 90 years or so, as they were fatally menaced by sound, television, corporate greed and audience philistinism.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 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

But suggest these things are wrong and you get hordes of opera lovers rising up to loudly protest your philistinism and ignorance.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019

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