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
Another is an equally comic argument for the arts in their endless debate with Philistinism.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is the criticism of sheer and unadulterated Philistinism, against which Mr. Arnold has been waging such excellent and needed war for several years.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred
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
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
Her early dislike of Joni Mitchell is used as a segue into a discussion of philistinism and taste.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2018
And Lin’s success has reinforced a popular but shopworn narrative about the lonely artist with a vision fighting and prevailing over philistinism.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2017
Mr. Gladstone has put himself on record against this philistinism, saying that "psychical research is by far the most important work that is being done in the world."
From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris
