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How to use philistine in a sentence

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Call me a heathen if you will, call me a philistine if the whim takes you, but I don't understand most modern art.
The public refuses its masochistic role as philistine, seeking affirmation instead in an art of generosity and pleasure.
It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film.
He derides the parents as philistine consumerists unduly concerned with their children's earning potentials.
Already this year, the city has revealed itself to be unusually philistine in the fields of architecture and art.
When asked how long they spent making something, most artists assume that the questioner is a philistine.
For Adorno, a philistine is someone who can only experience the work as a mere thing.
Call me a philistine, but his experimental noise, if it can be charitably described as such, could make hounds howl.
Seeing his work here does give some context, even if I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings.
Of course, I guess it's possible that these books are all pretty well known to literate Americans and I'm just a philistine.
Such cuts are also an expression of cultural vandalism and philistine indifference.
Stanley, a brusquely philistine furniture manufacturer, and Louise, his artily pretentious wife, exist in a state of permanent war.
Call me a lowbrow, a philistine if you like, but I wasn't lured to Vienna by any of these.
So, if I'm a philistine I'm proud to be one and please let's stop bad-mouthing a people of whom we know not nearly enough.
This is a philistine agenda, subjecting universities' research and teaching to the narrow interests of the British economy.
The damage to the intellectual and moral fabric of society resulting from such a mercenary and philistine approach is impossible to quantify.
As the appalling media response to the Momart fire has reminded us, what art needs most is defending from the philistine hordes.
There were some amazing works there, although I'm sure they were completely wasted on my philistine eyes.
A prescriptive list of buildings meriting destruction, however, is simply philistine.
Its detractors found it philistine, and indeed there are few mentions in the novel of any intellectual pursuits.
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He may have been a philistine, as Mr. Symonds calls him, but he was surely a philistine of genius.
What the deuce does this philistine mean by showing his dirty halfpence to me?
He is one in revolt with Byron and Shelley against a philistine world.
It is not a free port of entry for poet and philistine alike.
The philistine element in life is not the failure to understand art.
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.
On the literary side of things I am, I fear, a Philistine, or enfant terrible.
Shall we say, then, that the Robustious Philistine is the worse citizen, while the biblioklept is the worse man?
For you must know that not every one you meet in Bohemia is not a Philistine.
We find Samson visiting his Philistine wife, who remained with her kindred.
I admit she is a Philistine, appallingly ignorant, and her taste in art is false.
We can joke about ourselves and our traditions as we do in The fortnightly Philistine.
For even Delilah was a Philistine, and by her perfidy served her country.
Are you afraid lest peering from this high Pisgab, between Philistine and Amalekite, we might sight the promised Land?
Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
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