philistinism
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely.
From Books and Culture by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
