philistinism

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Swed pays tribute to a writer “who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2019

But suggest these things are wrong and you get hordes of opera lovers rising up to loudly protest your philistinism and ignorance.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 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

The latter represented freedom and cleverness at war with philistinism.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham