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Meanings of philistinism in English
Portuguese
filistinismo A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.
Manners, habits, and character of a person whose anti-intellectual social attitude undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality and intellect.
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Examples for "materialism"
Examples for "materialism"
1
It seems that materialism has grown in the Church, as in society.
2
The Jacobins were idealists; there was about this man a murderous materialism.
3
Or it may lead, as in the case of Helveticus, to materialism.
4
We were poor sceptics trusting to economics-theeconomics of a base materialism.
5
Not only does he despise materialism; he also disdains rationality and calculation.
Usage of philistinism in English
1
Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely.
2
Henry is appalled by Ed's philistinism; Ed is appalled by Henry's effeminacy.
3
But his huge popularity is just plain old philistinism, argues Jonathan Jones.
4
The exhausted poststructuralism pervading American universities is abject philistinism masquerading as advanced thought.
5
All those concerned in this act of philistinism should be pilloried.
6
Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue.
7
The incarnate ideal of British philistinism is sure to have a career before him.'
8
At once you are covered with reproaches for your philistinism.
9
It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism.
10
The act seemed to be the epitome of a deranged philistinism, writes Michael Cronin.
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Otherwise it takes philistinism to a whole new level.
12
While some have retrospectively cast this decision as philistinism, it was mainly motivated by space.
13
Cultural conservativism and philistinism were, as ever, closely allied.
14
Her early dislike of Joni Mitchell is used as a segue into a discussion of philistinism and taste.
15
Composer James MacMillan is outspoken about philistinism, hostility to high art and anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bias in Scotland.
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There was in him, as he himself once said, a certain "aftertaste of a worthy philistinism."
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