philistine
noun
a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
Philistinism
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a word derived from
Philistine.
philistinism
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a word derived from
philistine.
philistinenouna person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
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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
Another is an equally comic argument for the arts in their endless debate with Philistinism.
From Time Magazine Archive
I always had a great contempt--perhaps because I was ashamed of my peasant's manners--for what we were pleased to call the Philistinism of the worthy citizens.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse
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
The Kennedy Center has become a repository of philistinism, much to my regret.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 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
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
Here we miss the robust philistinism of the eternal schoolboy, and the atmosphere of reality which pervades Tom Brown.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
