philistinism

Example Sentences

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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

This suite is a collection of wondrous dances playfully meant as the battle cries of Schumann’s contemporary circle, the David’s Club, against the forces of musical philistinism.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2015

She knew nothing of the modern cant, of the nineteenth century philistinism, at which it was so much the fashion to scoff.

From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)