philistinism

How To Use philistinism In A Sentence

• Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism.
• To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable. GOTHIC PURSUIT
• But there is a kind of philistinism about regarding books as only having worth if they are old and valuable.
• If anything could spoil his temper, it is a day in what he calls the metropolis of Philistinism. The Puritans
• It might have felt like a craven surrender to Philistinism; instead I persuaded myself that the girls might one day recall Karnak's ancient thickets of stone columns, with their lotus-flower capitals, and realise that their parents had a point. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Error here means more than study of demonstration, philistinism and waste theory.
• The fuglemen were determined to find something wonderful in everything he did, and the title of "The Harlot's House," shocking Philistinism, gave them a certain opportunity which they used to the uttermost. Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions
• Is it the supposed subliteracy and philistinism of so much of Hollywood? Self-Styled Siren
• First he had not sufficient command of English to translate with the necessary laconism and assonance: secondly in his day British Philistinism was too rampant to permit a literal translation. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Fuelled by a potent mix of philistinism and Francophobia, they operate on the basis that modern French thought is a load of pretentious gibberish, while occasionally plucking out quotes from the more facetious French philosophers, taking them literally, and holding them up as examples of how silly the French are. Enowning