philistinism
Example Sentences
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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
Martin Bernheimer, music critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1965 to 1996, was a Pulitzer Prize winner who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 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
There is an assumption of philistinism, I say.
From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2016
There was in him, as he himself once said, a certain "aftertaste of a worthy philistinism."
