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How to use philistines in a sentence

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There are some philistines out there who claim that all of Jack and Meg's records sound the same.
The philistines may have triumphed on the streets of the 2008 Capital of Culture, but surely the galleries were unconquered?
To put this bluntly, art and its processes have always been incomprehensible to philistines and ideologues on the right and left.
Some of these arguments are important and valid for protecting ambitious contemporary art as a whole from philistines and iconophobes.
Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually.
Utilitarianism in Victorian England was often misconstructed as essentially anti-art, indeed as the doctrine of cultural philistines.
Let us hope when it is illuminated that at least some of the philistines might see what the fuss is about.
They can be seen as potential development land by philistines who only see land as money waiting to happen.
Their French counterparts find it easy to caricature les rosbifs as pink-faced philistines.
Of course none of this will convince the philistines who believe that making music this good involves nothing more complex than a good mains supply.
He has always compared the job of gallery boss to that of an evangelist, and viewed philistines as candidates for conversion rather than a mob to cower from.
With concatenating shock tactics suited to British journalism's daily appetite for outrage, the scene made for a merry rumpus of cheeky aesthetes and barking philistines.
No, thanks. Nor will the opera lobby be able to deploy against Mr Smith the charge it used so effectively against his Tory predecessors: that their reluctance to sign its cheques proved they were philistines.
Barcelona becomes a place of doors opening into dark interiors of the mind. Behind all this is a fierce satirical energy against the tyrants and philistines of history.
Both satirize contemporary philistines and intellectual mountebanks.
It is the story of Samson, the mighty warrior who was betrayed by his lover, and then blinded and imprisoned by his enemies, the Philistines.
The prophet Amos reminds us that, like us, the Ethiopians, Philistines, and Arameans have roles in God's plan.
When the Israelites asked for a king to lead them against the Philistines, Samuel warned them that he would become a tyrant.
The end came when the Israelites were battling the Philistines at Aphek.
The difficulty is to be settled not by trying to write poetry that the Philistines can understand but by outdistancing them in the very race they have set.
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Not one among them dares to give the philistines a slap in the face.
She accordingly removed with her family into the land of the philistines.
Truly, her ways were not as those of the philistines around her.
On the one hand they were attacked by the ammonites, and on the other, by the Philistines.
It was their back-parlour misinterpretation and belittlement of Nature that made these modern Philistines worship her.
What comfort he could have found in the slaughter of Moabites or Amalekites, or even Philistines, it is hard to imagine.
What could uncircumcised Philistines know about these precious realities?
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