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Significados de philistinism en inglés

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filistinismo

A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.

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filisteísmo

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 "philistine"
Examples for "philistine"
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The poet's quarrel with the philistine, in particular, is far from settled.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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Pence, unlike his philistine boss, was at least going to see Hamilton.
The Guardian
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It's not easy launching a new arts project in the current philistine climate.
The Irish Times
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That impending activity requires alcohol in excess to reach peak philistine, I say.
Climbing Magazine
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At heart, he had the philistine avarice of a true barbarian.
Anno Dracula
Uso de philistinism en inglés
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Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely.
Books and Culture
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Henry is appalled by Ed's philistinism; Ed is appalled by Henry's effeminacy.
The new yorker
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But his huge popularity is just plain old philistinism, argues Jonathan Jones.
The Irish Times
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The exhausted poststructuralism pervading American universities is abject philistinism masquerading as advanced thought.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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All those concerned in this act of philistinism should be pilloried.
The Irish Times
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Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue.
Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
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The incarnate ideal of British philistinism is sure to have a career before him.'
Thyrza
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At once you are covered with reproaches for your philistinism.
Humanly Speaking
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It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism.
Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
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The act seemed to be the epitome of a deranged philistinism, writes Michael Cronin.
The Irish Times
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Otherwise it takes philistinism to a whole new level.
The Irish Times
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While some have retrospectively cast this decision as philistinism, it was mainly motivated by space.
The Guardian
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Cultural conservativism and philistinism were, as ever, closely allied.
Hitler 1889 - 1936: Hubris
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Her early dislike of Joni Mitchell is used as a segue into a discussion of philistinism and taste.
The Guardian
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Composer James MacMillan is outspoken about philistinism, hostility to high art and anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bias in Scotland.
The Irish Times
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There was in him, as he himself once said, a certain "aftertaste of a worthy philistinism."
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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filistinismo
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Philistinism a través del tiempo