philistinism

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What Roth saw, himself bruised and embittered by these vilifications, was ignorant philistinism by minds impenetrable to the comical and freewheeling and antic liberties of good-natured satire.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2021

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

There is an assumption of philistinism, I say.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2016

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

But here is something outside the classical tradition, outside what imperial Rome with its philistinism and its puritanism has made of the art of Greece and thrust perhaps for ever upon Europe.

From Ravenna, a Study by Hutton, Edward