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Meanings of philistinism in inglês

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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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              Usage of philistinism in inglês
              1
              Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely.
              Books and Culture
              2
              Henry is appalled by Ed's philistinism; Ed is appalled by Henry's effeminacy.
              The new yorker
              3
              But his huge popularity is just plain old philistinism, argues Jonathan Jones.
              The Irish Times
              4
              The exhausted poststructuralism pervading American universities is abject philistinism masquerading as advanced thought.
              Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
              5
              All those concerned in this act of philistinism should be pilloried.
              The Irish Times
              6
              Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue.
              Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
              7
              The incarnate ideal of British philistinism is sure to have a career before him.'
              Thyrza
              8
              At once you are covered with reproaches for your philistinism.
              Humanly Speaking
              9
              It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism.
              Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
              10
              The act seemed to be the epitome of a deranged philistinism, writes Michael Cronin.
              The Irish Times
              11
              Otherwise it takes philistinism to a whole new level.
              The Irish Times
              12
              While some have retrospectively cast this decision as philistinism, it was mainly motivated by space.
              The Guardian
              13
              Cultural conservativism and philistinism were, as ever, closely allied.
              Hitler 1889 - 1936: Hubris
              14
              Her early dislike of Joni Mitchell is used as a segue into a discussion of philistinism and taste.
              The Guardian
              15
              Composer James MacMillan is outspoken about philistinism, hostility to high art and anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bias in Scotland.
              The Irish Times
              16
              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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              filisteísmo
              Philistinism through the time