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
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
There is an assumption of philistinism, I say.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016
At once you are covered with reproaches for your philistinism.
From Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers
