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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

Twenty-five years ago, a good many U.S. intellectuals were buying one-way tickets to Paris to escape their countrymen's "cultural Philistinism."

From Time Magazine Archive

I should never again find a being who was thus equally removed from Philistinism and evil courses.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul