How To Use Philistinism In A Sentence
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Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism.
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To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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But there is a kind of philistinism about regarding books as only having worth if they are old and valuable.
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If anything could spoil his temper, it is a day in what he calls the metropolis of Philistinism.
The Puritans
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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
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Error here means more than study of demonstration, philistinism and waste theory.
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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
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Is it the supposed subliteracy and philistinism of so much of Hollywood?
Self-Styled Siren
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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
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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
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She was also accused of philistinism, particularly because of a remark she made at a private dinner party, disloyally leaked by a fellow guest.
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Why, given the government's unequalled record of philistinism, this desire to spend a fortune on what would be one of the world's biggest theatre complexes?
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These cherished principles of science are jeopardised by the philistinism of the contemporary political elite, a trend towards which many scientific and medial authorities are, unfortunately, acquiescent.
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The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism.
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When he intimates that medical marvels will quickly follow his termination of a nonexistent ‘ban’ on stem-cell research, his dishonesty exceeds even his philistinism.
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To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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He was always criticized for his philistinism and his overweening self-confidence.
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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
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The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called ` ` Christian civilization, '' and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
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Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism.
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There have been accusations of nepotism and favouritism, philistinism and indolence, each clandestinely leaked to the papers.
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Much of the bad publicity came directly from the philistinism of the tabloid press.
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When cultural studies denigrates literature as elitist, this is hard to distinguish from a long national tradition of bourgeois philistinism.
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She was also accused of philistinism, particularly because of a remark she made at a private dinner party, disloyally leaked by a fellow guest.
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The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
