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That’s an assumption rooted in familiar and endlessly fractious debates between art and commerce; elitism and Philistinism; an eclectic, connoisseurial sensibility and an incurious, consumerist one.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2021

In an essay promoting his idea, Smith quoted a British critic who damned America as “the apotheosis of Philistinism; where the people are drunk with materialism, and wealth is a curse instead of a blessing.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2021

I assume he doesn’t mean it this way, but this reads like a passionate defense of Philistinism.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2013

They could blame such neglect on Philistinism or the no-nonsense approach of youthful capitalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

How is it possible, Lothair, that Ottmar's harmless and very innocent suggestion should at once set you thinking of clubs, and the Philistinism inherent in them?

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm