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
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
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
Thirdly, p. 32a disgust at his philistinism in refusing to bow down and worship the regnant idols of ‘taste.’
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Seccombe, Thomas
