philistinism
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Call it inverse philistinism: the use of intentionally bad imagery, perhaps with a wink, to create an “us-them” dynamic.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2022
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
The best works produced under Company patronage are unparalleled in Indian art and show a sympathy with the Mughal world quite at odds with prevailing stereotypes of colonial philistinism and insensitivity.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2015
It was a picture of suburban desolation, the home of poverty-stricken philistinism, uncaring and uncared for.
From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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