Philistine

Example Sentences

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I must add that, as you drive in Boston now, across the Longfellow Bridge to the Ted Williams Tunnel, it’s pretty obvious that high culture has its philistine competition.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

Simply put, if you can’t take Duchamp or conceptual art seriously, you are a philistine, by the definition of the art world.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022

Literature, cinema and theater are seen as beacons of enlightenment in a philistine world.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2020

This message is so blunt that even I, a Marxist and philistine, found its message a bit too clobbering.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2019

The Jerry philistine proceeded to wad everything I could remember of “Tam o’Shanter” into balls of wastepaper.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein