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
Volle, 70, claimed the refusals showed the philistinism of modern publishing, which was “abandoning literary works that are not easy to read or that will not set sales records”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2017
The best works produced under Company patronage are unparalleled in Indian art and show a sympathy with the Mughal world quite at odds with prevailing stereotypes of colonial philistinism and insensitivity.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015
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 William Savage Johnson
