philistinism

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Call it inverse philistinism: the use of intentionally bad imagery, perhaps with a wink, to create an “us-them” dynamic.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022

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

Mulvaney began his tenure with an open display of cocksure philistinism, taking potshots at Warren at a conference of appreciative credit union executives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 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

Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk