Philistine

Example Sentences

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Literature, cinema and theater are seen as beacons of enlightenment in a philistine world.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2020

Let me reassure you, you are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2019

This message is so blunt that even I, a Marxist and philistine, found its message a bit too clobbering.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2019

QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker