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
The Kennedy Center has become a repository of philistinism, much to my regret.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022
Swed pays tribute to a writer “who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2019
Profit-hunger, philistinism and misanthropy are and always have been at the core of the enterprise.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2018
He was inspired, not by past perfection of the Italians among whom he came to live, but by those of the decline, and on this he grafted a bit of Northern philistinism.
From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.
