philistinism

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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

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

Profit-hunger, philistinism and misanthropy are and always have been at the core of the enterprise.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2018

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

It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage