- In the
fields of
philosophy and of aesthetics, the term
philistinism describes the attitudes, habits, and
characteristics of a
person who
deprecates art...
- Dave
Philistin (born
September 24, 1986) is an
American former football linebacker and CEO and
founder of Candor, a cloud-based
managed IT
services company...
- also: Smith, 113: "The only
counterbalance to the [Kennedy] family's
philistinism had been Lem Billings,
whose p****ion for art and
antiques had
begun with...
-
distinctive material culture. The
English term
Philistine comes from Old
French Philistin; from
classical Latin Philistinus; from Late Gr**** Philistinoi; from Koine...
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everything I
detested (fanaticism, violence, bigotry, humorlessness,
philistinism, and the new
offense culture of the age). Then I read
Christopher using...
-
writing endless propaganda doggerel, and the
stifling conformism and
philistinism of the
World State make him restive.
Helmholtz is
ultimately exiled to...
- bioregionalism. He
disapproved of the
subjugation of
Native Americans, slavery,
philistinism,
technological utopianism, and what can be
regarded in today's terms...
- Purple, they're just one-hit wonders.' How can you deal with that kind of
Philistinism, you know?". Ian
Gillan also commented, "I've
fought all my life against...
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socially and
culturally determined by
their economic materialism and
philistinism, a
social identity famously mocked in Molière's
comedy Le
Bourgeois gentilhomme...
- The
opposite is neomania, a love of
change for its own sake, a form of
philistinism that does not
comply with the
Lindy effect and that
understands fragility...
