Definitionn. a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
Last update: August 2, 2015
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With this double ideal in view, Petrarch poured scorn upon the French physicians and the Italian Averroists for their illiberal philistinism, no less than for their materialistic impiety. [Please select]
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Unreceptive as his philistinism may have seemed to these delightful youngsters, it was apparent enough to him that they had taught him a great deal. [Please select]
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The which disdain for art was, however, I am content to think, as naught in comparison with the withering artistic disdain felt, and sometimes revealed, by those Latin and German artists for Anglo-Saxon Philistinism. [Please select]
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It was in his time that Philistinism met its match in Oscar Wilde, and for the first time in its history felt its self-complacency shaken. [Please select]
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With the loss of that pride it blundered, and it remained for du Maurier to show that the height of Philistinism in a Philistine is to pretend not to be a Philistine. [Please select]
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The fact is, Borrow's really great books were _Lavengro_ and _The Romany Rye_, and the latter had fallen almost dead from the press, smothered by Victorian respectability and philistinism. [Please select]
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