philistinism
Example Sentences
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The Kennedy Center has become a repository of philistinism, much to my regret.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 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
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
To Mrs. Crowley he seemed always an embodiment of British philistinism; and if she liked him for his devotion to Lucy, she laughed at him for his stolidity.
From The Explorer by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
