philistinism

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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

Swed pays tribute to a writer “who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2019

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

There is an assumption of philistinism, I say.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2016

And ever thereafter the subtle suggestion of a fat philistinism lingers along that path of progress like an assertion of a possessory right.

From A Cynic Looks at Life by Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel)