philistinism
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Call it inverse philistinism: the use of intentionally bad imagery, perhaps with a wink, to create an “us-them” dynamic.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
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
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
There was in him, as he himself once said, a certain "aftertaste of a worthy philistinism."
