Philistinism
- a word derived from Philistine.
- a word derived from philistine.
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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
Dwight Macdonald, 76, contentious cultural watchdog who wryly tilted against both Philistinism and pretension; in New York City.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a great error to suppose that indifference to ancient thinking is peculiar to the spirit of Philistinism; for the most cultivated contemporary intellects seek light from each other rather than from the ancients.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
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
But suggest these things are wrong and you get hordes of opera lovers rising up to loudly protest your philistinism and ignorance.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2019
Mulvaney began his tenure with an open display of cocksure philistinism, taking potshots at Warren at a conference of appreciative credit union executives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019
There is an assumption of philistinism, I say.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016
It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism.
From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage
