Sentence examples for philistinism from inspiring English sources

There can be a philistinism within this field that is philistinely denounced as infra dig.

And maybe we can start on English football itself, with its wasted riches, its trivia obsession, its proud and diligent philistinism.

The academic author and commentator John Sutherland said this remark had earned her "eternal fame in the dictionary of great philistinism" alongside the industrialist Henry Ford ("History is bunk"), the novelist Kingsley Amis ("Filthy Mozart") and the ex-world chess champion Bobby Fischer ("Girls are a waste of time").

But is curing British philistinism a job for Brussels?Eurocrats talk of the efficiency of spending money through regions.

And unless it were really on its uppers, a nation that let its great public buildings run to seed would justly be accused of philistinism.

Baracking the voters While shepherds watched ReprintsBut railing against philistinism will not work this time, since ministers can point to deep cuts to other services.

No less a critic than H.L. Mencken praised this portrait of the "booboisie" as an attack on the philistinism and puritanism he thought was running rife in middle America.

Faber & Faber/Profile Books; £10.99Witty and urbane, physically tiny and charming, this account of Queen Elizabeth II discovering the work of J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton-Burnett and other writers is a Swiftian tirade against stupidity and philistinism, and a passionate argument for the civilising power of art.

Several of Japan's finest architects, among them Kengo Kuma, are up in arms against it.There is Olympics-related philistinism elsewhere in the city.

The libraries' sad state is being interpreted as a symptom of modern philistinism.

Wedekind's characteristic theme in his dramas was the antagonism of the elemental force of sex to the philistinism of society.