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
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
Her early dislike of Joni Mitchell is used as a segue into a discussion of philistinism and taste.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2018
Within the church itself, modern low-backed pews had supplanted the ancient square boxes during an outbreak of philistinism in the fifties.
From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell
