| 单词 | philistine |
| 例句 | At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But if, in some unimaginable parallel universe of philistines, they were, the pitch for newcomer Laura Mvula might have run something like this. Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon – review 2013-03-03T00:05:13Z Heath was an opera lover, Wilson an unabashed philistine. When politicians go pop – the perils of trying to appear 'in touch' 2012-12-18T14:30:01Z QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.” Quentin Tarantino's artful pulp: On alchemy, fantasy and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The philistines and modern-day know-nothings are on the march, and they all seem to show up at the Trump rally. We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The very concepts of art, culture and creativity are debased by Hall's unquestioning reruns of the philistine corruptions of Thatcher-Blairspeak. Letters: There's more to life than gross domestic product 2010-04-01T23:05:00Z It is hard to explain how artists perform their magic, and this is why philistine scepticism always flourishes. Michael Landy's art goes down the tube 2011-07-20T12:20:58Z And in Clayhanger, Anna of the Five Towns and other books, the Potteries were portrayed as places of oppressive religious conformity, bullying Victorian patriarchs and philistine attitudes to art and literature. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It's about the enduring sense on this side of the Atlantic that America, even in the Obama era, remains a land of philistine, puritanical barbarity. Polanski and Cannes: C'est l'amour! 2010-05-13T15:45:00Z ISH: What I do when you start talking in a movie theater, you boorish philistine! Style Invitational Week 1319: The Tile Invitational VI 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Though the Trumps are presented as wealthy, brand-obsessed philistines, the satire isn’t too pointed. Trump and ‘S.N.L.’: A Look Back at a Complicated Relationship 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Until then, McGregor’s film must take its place alongside a long list of cherished books which have been wantonly manhandled by philistine film-makers. American Pastoral and the curse of adapting a literary classic 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z "What kind of abysmal, philistine, reactionary government put dustbins above library books?" Library protests are the domain of 'luvvies', Eric Pickles tells MPs 2012-12-18T13:05:39Z "Either they're aware of what they are doing, in which case they are philistines, or they are unaware, in which case they are dangerously ignorant and ill-informed." Max Stafford-Clark calls ministers 'philistines' over arts funding cuts 2013-02-05T14:16:16Z Your problem is that the society isn’t philistine enough: it’s full of artists who are all making their own epic impacts, so nobody can hear yours. Clive James: ‘If I were a pop star, I’d sing like Johnny Cash’ 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Smith's baritone echoes with villains and misfits, drunks and philistines. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “Back then if you liked Merlot, you were a philistine. Nobody took you seriously; you were ostracized,” he says. You had me at Merlot: I forgive you Rex Pickett 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The philistines! Don’t they know conceptual art when they see it? How to talk about art 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z Yes, the culinary philistine Brits are not taking kindly to the idea of US agricultural imports! The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Little Matilda is a brainy, imaginative 5-year-old with crassly philistine parents who vastly prefer their dunce son to their intellectually precocious daughter. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z In fact, Comden and Green, avid movie buffs from way back, were making a case for philistine vulgarity. Singin' in the Rain Is Back: What a Glorious Feeling! 2012-07-12T20:14:04Z He shows the commissioning Doge not as some crude philistine, but as a patron with a fetishistic passion for art. Scenes from an Execution – review 2012-10-05T16:58:22Z But this made them prey to philistines of right and left. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z It is a philistine attack on the arts. Lee Hall attacks Newcastle council's decision to cut entire culture budget 2012-11-23T19:31:39Z He runs an art gallery called Limited Edition, where Stan Lee prints hang on the walls like Van Goghs and buyers looking to purchase for their kids get chewed out for being philistines. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z What philistine short-sightedness it would be to let these subjects die. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z It's not that politicians as a breed are philistine; some have deep cultural hinterlands. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z And Sontag wrote that “Dr. Strangelove is nihilism for the masses, a philistine nihilism.” The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z And the customers at the other end: philistine Britons, mainly, who drank the stuff with sugar and milk and let it stew in the pot for hours. If You Use Tea Bags, You’ll Be in Hot Water With This Connoisseur 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The manuscripts of Rudian’s plays languish with the philistines of the Party Committee, awaiting approval or dismissal after being autopsied for any suggestion of subversion or insurgence. Review | A fierce masterpiece by Albania’s most eminent novelist, Ismail Kadare 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Does he really want to line up with the philistines? Libraries 'have had their day', says Horrible Histories author 2013-02-13T14:38:14Z A knuckle-dragging philistine might believe we are watching drag karaoke, but there is nothing whatsoever ersatz about how completely Arias embodies the spirit of Holiday, damaged and righteous, one struggle informing another struggle. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z The school turned out to be a sports-obsessed and “very philistine sort of place,” where the severest punishment imaginable was to send misbehaving girls to the library and make them read for an hour. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z He railed against the philistine reactions of the American public, the miserable social status of artists, the dearth of American patrons. ‘Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel,’ by Annie Cohen-Solal 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z In the film, the incongruity of stuffy, dressed-up philistines making like Jamaican backup dancers was a hoot. Review: In ‘Beetlejuice,’ the Afterlife Is Exhausting 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The campaigners who prevented this sound piece from polluting their river look like philistines. Public art? Not in my back yard | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-24T17:00:00Z Some of the witnesses have been gamely battling against the philistine tide; some of them have been promulgating views that are plain batty. Culture committee now aims to cut Mahler 2010-11-23T22:16:00Z "My father is a wonderful man, but an absolute philistine," she explains. Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z A philistine who used ideas solely to pursue her practical and above all moral purposes, Thatcher was the antithesis of an intellectual: “I am not by nature either introspective or retrospective,” she declared. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features The mood of Britain under the last Conservative government was aggressively philistine. Waiting for Clegg and co: a funding tragedy in two acts 2010-07-16T14:40:00Z “You mean philistines,” I blurted out, being something of a zealot. A whale of a time: a Moby-Dick marathon in Massachusetts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z He is perennially exasperated by a political establishment he considers reactionary and philistine. Poland's world-beating new film-makers: 'We have a common enemy' 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z In 1947, upon Gertrude Stein’s suggestion, Paul settled in Tangier, a seedy port city where artists, pirates, picaros, philistines, homosexuals, lapsed aristocrats, real aristocrats, and paupers posing as kings had found refuge for centuries. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Such a move, he said, would cut against the "philistine thuggery of the market" that failed to sift the good from the bad. China Miéville: Writers should welcome a future where readers remix our books 2012-08-21T18:15:42Z Not all whites were philistine racists: many were trapped by history and fate and the apartheid laws they detested. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-26T14:29:01Z There can't be many insults that strike more viciously at the heart of the highbrow film lover than "philistine". The view: Is it OK to be a film philistine? 2010-05-21T12:48:00Z Nietzsche is presented as the great apostle of the free spirit, the nonconformist and the rugged individualist living in the age of the philistine and the “last man.” Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z An expanded version of the classic philistine response to modern art came to mind: I know what I like — and if I can be in the piece, I love it!” Art Review: Christian Marclay: Festival at the Whitney Museum 2010-07-08T21:49:00Z If you don’t, however, there’s no point blaming the philistine society into which you were born. Clive James: ‘If I were a pop star, I’d sing like Johnny Cash’ 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z In other words, your idiot guests probably won’t appreciate how nice this hotel is, since they are Marriott-loving philistines who don’t understand “hip, period furniture” and “vintage” design. 'Historic' Inn Charges $500 Per Negative Online Review 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The journalist was subsequently depicted as a philistine, unable to appreciate the subtlety of Matzneff's feelings or the beauty of his style. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z Overseas museum directors, who spend their lives groveling before increasingly populist and philistine governments, envy this setup. Perspective | Can artists right the ills of an unjust world by staging museum protests? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The resort, where much of the drama takes place, exerts its gaudy, philistine pull on the four main characters. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z If there's one thing worse than being a philistine, it's being a sissy. Just too soft to be Sartre | Lynsey Hanley 2010-03-31T22:30:00Z But to dismiss it is ignorant, philistine, and dangerous. The ICA must be saved | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-17T10:58:00Z Not to sound philistine, but this seems an inordinate amount of money and time off, especially given the relatively small scholarly return. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Nobody here wants to be confused with the philistines who populate Centreville or Bessemer. 'Pretty accurate': S-Towners are proud to be podcasted – except for a few things 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Gail is only slightly less of a philistine than I am. Three generations, a lot of canals and a cat sanctuary: Mastering a family trip to Venice The others were entranced by his profane rants about the beauty of unalloyed creativity and the plague of cultural philistines. Jack Kerouac, misogynist creep: Inside his ugly infatuation with Marilyn Monroe 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z The term that Zadie Smith uses in her Harper’s essay on the question, or for the concern with the race of the person who purports to represent an event, is “philistine.” The True and False Virtues of the Left 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z As a whole, however, the Wyeth family tradition of art is populist hokum that appeals to boardroom philistines – the entire collection on view at Dulwich is owned by the Bank of America. Why middlebrow Americana will always beat 'good' British art 2010-07-06T10:19:00Z Chernaik gets the incredible essence of this: how he offloaded his difficult emotional world onto an imaginary band of alternative identities, partly for survival, to fight the philistine world on better terms. Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z It is tempting to dismiss these attacks as philistine, but that would be to ignore an eminently respectable and artistically sophisticated British tradition of disdain for abstract painting. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z For philistines mystified by the value attached to so many artworks that to an untrained eye look worthless, Mr. Cenedella comes across as a reassuring voice of sanity. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It is for the organisers to remain firm in their resolve and stay on the path and stare back at their philistine critics. Why Pakistan's writers must attend the Jaipur literature festival 2013-01-24T16:00:01Z I’d guess that, as with so many other posts, an arts czar’s job would have gone unfilled in the current philistine administration. Perspective | The culture is ailing. It’s time for a Dr. Fauci for the arts. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Speaking at the Edinburgh International Festival he described measures to prevent the piracy literature in the digital age as hypocritical and "artistically philistine". AUDIO: Pride and Prejudice... and zombies 2012-08-23T13:22:58Z Miliband needs to address this before his party gets a reputation for philistine opportunism. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z I'm not suggesting that people in the government are philistines – Nick Clegg once wanted to be an actor. The arts cuts: David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, David Peace and others give their verdicts 2011-03-30T18:00:01Z I've watched Mad Men as well recently, so I'm not a total philistine. Watch television with Rob da Bank 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z It was easy to feel in on the joke, just as it was easy to share in the snobbery when Nabokov wrote, “Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.” Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Even for a philistine like me, who fell asleep when a date took her to the opera, “Aria Code” presents a mesmerizing appreciation of these powerful solo performances brimming with universal feelings. Podcasts About Beyoncé, Arias and Health Care: Worth a Listen 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z His superior taste allows him to transcend the common morality of philistines. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Two qualified apologies, then, which beat up philistine peers as much as himself, but admissions of failure, none the less. Oscars 2013: can Silver Linings Playbook save the day for Harvey Weinstein? 2013-02-21T17:00:00Z I must add that, as you drive in Boston now, across the Longfellow Bridge to the Ted Williams Tunnel, it’s pretty obvious that high culture has its philistine competition. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z However, the fact that this work is being cut by a philistine government does not mean that charging is the answer. Free entry to museums enriches us in many ways 2011-03-13T00:05:44Z One thing's for sure: he is certainly no philistine. Nick Clegg: at home with Schubert, Strauss and Chopin 2010-04-29T15:00:00Z Full disclosure: I’m a fashion philistine who tends to find people who coo over couture to be utterly insufferable. Rachel Zabar, Scion of Saul, Eschews Lox for Vintage Couture 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z What it really is is kitsch: pseudohigh art for a philistine clientele that was generally wealthy, East Coast, urban and male. Art Review: ‘The American West in Bronze’ at the Met 2013-12-19T22:56:12Z Letter writers demanded that the editors sack this philistine. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z Lou’s opponents are almost all portrayed as craven, repressed or philistine for preferring that the school produce “The Pirates of Penzance.” Review: ‘Rise’ Is No ‘Friday Night Footlights’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Publishers and booksellers are complicit with other keepers of the canon in the philistine derogation of great documentary writing by reserving the label “literature” on book jackets and store shelves only for works of fancy. Nonfiction Deserves a Nobel 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z He has survived by making his shop a little oasis in a desert of philistine conformity. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z Let me reassure you, you are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z He was tagged as an incorrigible philistine and worse. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z But “Portnoy” had harvested antagonists who could hardly be dismissed as unsophisticated humorless philistines. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z "Well, I think to call them philistines is not fair," he says with equanimity. Peter Bazalgette: 'Maybe I don't qualify as great or good' 2013-02-24T00:06:07Z And a good thing too, since in Paul’s own estimation, Barton boys are, with rare exception, a hopeless bunch of “philistines,” “reprobates,” “troglodytes,” “degenerates,” “hormonal vulgarians,” “fetid layabouts” and “snarling Visigoths.” Review: Bah, humbug! 'The Holdovers' is a clunky, phony white-elephant gift of a movie 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s a uniquely philistine movement, but its political consequences are its most troubling aspect. Column: Remembering when the government wasn't afraid to let artists tell the truth about capitalism 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z I, on the other hand, remain a philistine and a hayseed. Review | A new look at Marguerite Duras, who, at 70, shocked the literary world 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Simply put, if you can’t take Duchamp or conceptual art seriously, you are a philistine, by the definition of the art world. Perspective | Trump NFTs are not art. Unless you consider grifting an art form. 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z With this in mind, it’s tempting to read “Wool” as straight-up satire, focusing as it does on an ingenious but eccentric writer pitched against a philistine publisher. Review: The author of a literary classic, Helen DeWitt tries a novella on for size 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z How relevant is all this wonder to our daily lives, philistines might ask, beyond the noble mission of dazzling us with the splendor of ourselves and our wild neighbors? Review | What does this funny-looking mole have to do with our sense of touch? A new book explains. 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Not artists and creators, who have to deal with new cadres of cocksure philistines running the content side of things by reading from the bottom line up. Column: AT&T got nothing but pain from its WarnerMedia merger. It's well deserved 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Artistic and intellectual greatness, when democratic taste turns philistine or liberal intellectuals become apparatchiks. Opinion | The Two Crises of Conservatism 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z We all know the pain of having our dreams dispelled by things like pedestrian day jobs, student loans, family obligations and amiable philistines. How Friendship Helps Us Transcend Ourselves 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The issue here, then, may be that I am a philistine. Don’t Reject the Champions League’s Changes Out of Hand 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Trump is a narcissistic philistine, and he bent American culture toward him. Opinion | Four Wasted Years Thinking About Donald Trump 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It would be nice to say that these allegations are the harmless nattering of brain-dead philistines. Decoding QAnon: From Pizzagate to Kanye to Marina Abramovic, this conspiracy covers everything 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Historian Philip Matyszak asks: were the Philistines philistines and the Vandals vandals? Rehabilitating the Vandals, the bearded ladies of geology, and how to get a job in academia: Books in brief 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Literature, cinema and theater are seen as beacons of enlightenment in a philistine world. This French writer operated openly as a pedophile for decades. He may finally face justice 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Subtitles signified a respect for art; dubbing was a betrayal, a capitulation to philistines. Letter of Recommendation: Badly Dubbed Movies 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z This message is so blunt that even I, a Marxist and philistine, found its message a bit too clobbering. Joker isn’t an ode to the alt-right — it’s a warning against austerity | Micah Uetricht 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z It ill behoves either him or Bruckner to try to frame this as evidence of a vindictive philistine world. Stop whining, empty nesters. Your child going to uni is not about you | Barbara Ellen 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z But equally correct was Michael Moorcock, who succeeded Campbell as science fiction’s next great sci-fi editor at New Worlds in the ’60s, when he labeled Analog “a crypto-fascist deeply philistine magazine.” John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's Golden Age, was as brilliant as he was problematic 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Dijkgraaf recounts this episode in a slender volume that, read in the right government places, might inoculate the nation against philistine utilitarianism. Opinion | America is sacrificing the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Unless you are an absolute golf philistine—almost certainly an American—you do NOT refer to the British Open. When it comes to golf tradition, the Open Championship has no peer - Golf Digest 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z A tough piece of steak found in a kitchen may be saved for the "philistine" who wants his meat well cooked, Bourdain wrote in the same piece. Eat out on Tuesdays and other Bourdain tips 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z He would have to be a philistine to have missed Johnson’s narrative, which was first revealed in Johnson’s autobiography in 1927 and has been written about since in maybe a dozen books. Perspective | A pardon for Jack Johnson would be symbolic, but living opportunities abound 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z And if they are overly loyal, destroying work the author disowned but that deserves to be saved, they will be called philistine or just plain stupid. Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z To celebrate the holidays without shopping would seemingly render someone a philistine Grinch. How the mall, once a pop-culture touchstone, fell out of fashion 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z For all the examples of President Trump the philistine, this decision appears to be based on horticultural realities rather than issues of taste. Opinion | The story of the White House’s famous magnolia tree 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Tech workers are not philistines and do engage with arts and culture, said D’Alessandro. 50 years after summer of love, yuppies have replaced San Francisco's hippies 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z In the petit-bourgeois, confidently philistine milieu in which I grew up, plutocratic values held a firm purchase. Trump and the Plutocrat’s Hubris 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z If we stop ourselves looking at such premodern ivory we will be philistines and bigots, congratulating ourselves on a victory over art. Ivory tells the history of the world – it must never be banned 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps this is the way to “survive” the Trump era — resist the red-state philistines by closing your life and mind off from them, and repeat “this is not normal” again and again. Opinion | The crucial fight that the anti-Trump resistance is forgetting 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z "Most worrying of all is the location, it is right below the ancient avenue which is a key feature of the pre-designed prehistoric landscape. It's a philistine way of treating the landscape." Stonehenge tunnel excavation sparks 'done deal' fears - BBC News 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z The incoming 45th president, by contrast, is seen by critics as a philistine and vulgarian who never reads books and gets riled by his portrayal on Saturday Night Live. Jackie Kennedy biopic casts spotlight on a brighter American age 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Pence, unlike his philistine boss, was at least going to see Hamilton. Don’t boo Mike Pence – at least he went to Hamilton | Emma Brockes 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z A philistine might look at this and say, who cares? Seeking a scientific renaissance in D.C. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Only an uninformed philistine could find the band’s name disparaging.” Supreme Court to review case important to Redskins trademark fight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Philistines were no philistines, say archaeologists who unearthed a 3,000-year-old cemetery in which members of the biblical nation were buried along with jewelry and perfumed oil. Time to rethink calling someone an uncultured ‘philistine’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Philistines were no "philistines", say archaeologists who unearthed a 3,000-year-old cemetery in which members of the biblical nation were buried along with jewelry and perfumed oil. Philistines were more sophisticated than given credit for, say archeologists 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Art Basel Miami Beach, much more than its Swiss counterpart and even more than the big-money auctions, has become the bailiwick for public displays of wealth by both fair-going aesthetes and fair-avoiding philistines. Art Basel Miami Beach: has inequality invaded the art world? 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z She fumed, as many have done before: “If centuries of privileged breeding and education produce dunderheads and philistines, that proves talent is genetically random, not inherited.” Queen Elizabeth II, 23,226 Days Later, Becomes Britain’s Longest-Serving Monarch 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Gehry is 86, world famous and impatient with philistines who note that his proposal is discordant with the Mall’s aesthetic. The proposed Eisenhower memorial is a monstrosity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z To shoot vertically isn’t to be exposed as a tech ignoramus or a lazy philistine who cares little for the creative process. Vertical Video on the Small Screen? Not a Crime 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Someone that would say, you know, ‘war to the philistines’. New York University in legal saga over Villa La Pietra, half a world away in Italy 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Berlioz was born into an energetic, patchy, philistine musical environment, and some of the best stories in the book are about his single-handed attempts to restore standards. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z And let’s not even talk about the ugly, philistine stupidity dominating left-wing Twitter. Barack Obama’s cynical game: Why his strategy to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership is so disappointing 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z He made a record of exactly how much each of his novels had earned, and efficiency and economy, taken together, got him a reputation as a philistine drudge. Why Trollope Is Trending 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z I'm a millennial, raised to believe a subscription to Spotify signals a luxurious music budget, above the plebes and philistines who suffer through commercials. Why do I still have Shazam on my phone, and what the hell are these songs? 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Even paranoids have enemies, as the saying goes, and even philistine university bureaucrats, it seems, do sometimes become reasonably exasperated by overprivileged and insulated academics. The World’s Weirdest Library 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The “green” philistines mean well, but they must be controlled. A little more room, please 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z The peril isn’t just that blithe dot-com philistines will tear down institutions that once sustained a liberal humanism. The old journalism and the new 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z He wanted to be seen as an international statesman but feared he was perceived as a provincial philistine. The secrets of Germany's Helmut Kohl 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Those philistines who trotted out during McVie’s pounding Don’t Stop solo may have escaped the parking ramps a half hour before the rest of us; but their lives are exponentially poorer for it. Fleetwood Mac is back: Christine McVie sings again as the tour starts anew 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Their philistine father's loathing of foreigners, Catholics and anywhere "abroad" ended up instilling in his daughters an individualist mindset and the confidence to pursue their own strong-minded opinions. The six sisters that captured the maelstrom 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A couple of years back, I spent much of Memorial Day at the Museum of Modern Art with my friend Oliver, a self-described philistine when it comes to art. A Monet of One’s Own 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z "Out to turn a quick buck. Highly aggressive. And philistines. I've told them: these hotels are jewels, to be cherished. Nearly 200 years of history. Not assets to be sold down to the highest bidder." Hotel wars: the battle for Claridge's, the Connaught and the Berkeley 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z I am not just being a philistine here. Stonehenge was circular? Well, blow me down 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Still, as Amis once wrote about Angus Wilson: "No writer can determine what may appeal to his imagination and it is simply philistine to arraign him for the things he happens to write about best." Why we love to hate Martin Amis 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But it’s not fair to rush to judgment, or to label the Saudis as simple philistines. Mecca’s changing face matches the needs of its Muslim pilgrims 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The emergence in Moscow in the 1990s of a tough, philistine nationalist like Putin was a near certainty. To mock President Putin’s pride and test his paranoia is folly 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Only a philistine, a religious zealot, a Nazi would hate books. Linda Grant: 'I have killed my books' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The executive in question is no one’s idea of a philistine. At Four Seasons, Picasso Tapestry Hangs on the Edge of Eviction 2014-02-04T01:45:08Z The toebung is usually associated with the playground philistine, yet it also belongs to the beach aesthete. The Joy of Six: unique goals 2013-05-10T10:25:05Z Likewise, it was a foolish, philistine man who opted to miss a ball of a David Gower innings, partly because of that hint of fallibility. Left is the right choice for elegance – look at Lara, Sobers and Gower 2013-04-27T20:00:03Z In Chatham, though, the crowd didn’t seem to understand that the polite American enthusiastically pointing to graphs on a projector was declaring that their prime minister was a financial philistine. God Save the British Economy 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z "What kind of abysmal, philistine, reactionary government puts dustbins above library books?" he asked. Pickles - Bins critic MP 'a luvvie' 2012-12-17T17:03:54Z Former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Brooke said councils risked being "castigated as philistine" if they sought to restrict leaflets in the name of keeping town centres clean and tidy. Rethink on leafleting ruled out 2012-07-09T15:11:14Z You are a philistine if you don't like Spain or a pseudo-intellectual if you do. Euro 2012: Spain wear tag of boring for lack of excitement and goals 2012-06-30T16:49:16Z Equally commented on, perhaps reflecting football's philistine norms as much as Hodgson's exceptionalism, is his love of culture, ranging from the soul music of his youth to opera and literature. Roy Hodgson 'makes footballers realise how lucky they are' 2012-06-12T19:32:42Z The composer himself referred to the work as "a monstrosity," and he must have realised full well that it would stick in the crop of the philistines. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z These criticisms were dictated by a philistine scepticism, lack of faith in the masses, lack of faith in bold initiative, and organization. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z But the newspapers and reviews are so grim and philistine and impenetrable and stupid, that I can scarcely think of any to which it isn't almost an act of untenderness to send it. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z He did not write for philistines with his heart in his mouth, but merely with his tongue in his cheek. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z What e'er be true, it is not true exclusively, as philistine scientific opinion assumes. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z But by such appraisement he cuts himself off from the community of men, though he, in his arrogance, being morally insane, may abuse them as philistines. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z My philistine opinion would say yea—that personal information shouldn’t fall under Amazons intellectual property rights to publish. Texas Actress Sues Amazon Over Age 2011-10-18T18:40:03Z Until towards the end of the eighteenth century, learned and unlearned, philosophers and philistines, had some such general notions as the following. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z Wherever one went one heard it discussed, priest and philistine were as loud in their praises of it as the most decadent of minor poets. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z This bill is philistine, an abuse of local democracy and an invitation to corruption. This localism bill will sacrifice our countryside to market forces 2011-07-28T20:00:09Z Some people accuse you of being a snob while others call you a philistine. Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC 2011-05-28T14:18:00Z The injunction, trite though it sound, articulates a moral very far from philistine. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z And there is little doubt that Macpherson is playing a blinder in restoring the Treasury's institutional memory after a philistine phase when it seemed to lose interest in its own history. A resurgent Treasury seems all too ready to make cuts 2011-03-13T00:05:37Z One was an admirable huckster, another an inflexible paternalist, the third a fine old philistine who carved a destiny in ham. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z For the philistines who merely bat or bowl only the mistakes are noticed. The Ashes 2010: Team spirit keeps low-profile Matt Prior on a high 2010-12-09T14:46:00Z There always was: between, essentially, the right-thinking people who understand why it needs to be there and the philistines who want to see it gone. Don't you see? It's all a trick 2010-08-14T23:08:00Z This decision is economically illiterate and culturally philistine. UK Film Council axed 2010-07-26T18:09:00Z The FA, which is consensus obsessed, needs to get nasty and drive the philistines from grass-roots and schoolboy football. World Cup 2010: Ten things the world taught England 2010-07-12T21:00:00Z But in a final in which both countries have waged war against the philistines down the years 's coronation would unite most neutrals in gratitude. Holland and Spain prepare to battle for right to join the elite 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z It may even sound philistine, since the purpose of a liberal-arts education is to produce well-rounded citizens rather than productive workers. Higher Education: Why Alternatives to College Are Needed 2010-02-24T09:00:00Z THE enemies of Science are not the philistines alone—if any still remain—who would muzzle or stifle her. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer It professes at least to be a logic of hypothesis and experiment, whereas for the perfect philistine there are no ultimate problems and hence no logic but the logic of self-evidence. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Miss Jones's taste in painting might be as philistine as in literature, but her reserve aroused conjecture, and I became really anxious for an expression of opinion. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece "And may a philistine ask what it was?" The Gambler A Novel One can imagine what Plato's answer would be to the sort of vulgarians and philistines who want to know what the use of philosophy is, and in what way it is "practical." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy What have you to propose in this deadly-lively solitude, where we are thrown upon the odious privy councilor, and the female philistines of his family. On the Heights A Novel It is the surrender of initiative and control, in the quest for ends in life, for a philistine pleased acceptance of the ends that Nature, assisted by the advertisement-writers,351 sets before us. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude For this reason the tediousness of the German novels is abhorred as much by the French bourgeois as the "immorality" of the French novels by the German philistine. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Under this head fall such words as india rubber, oriental colors, street arab, pasteurize, macadam, axminster, gatling, paris green, plaster of paris, philippic, socratic, herculean, guillotine, utopia, bohemian, philistine, platonic. The Style Book of The Detroit News Such a theory would reduce Aristotle's great and illuminating criticism to the meaningless babble of a philistine. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy While this "True" Socialism thus served the government as a weapon for fighting the German bourgeoisie, it, at the same time, directly represented a reactionary interest, the interest of the German philistines. Manifesto of the Communist Party A certain disgust with the colorless life of the philistine borough into which Weimar more and more degenerated after Goethe's death may be read between the lines of this apostrophe. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 But it passes in silence, as is meet for a moralizing philistine, that the practice silently but without compunction supersedes these barriers sanctioned officially by society. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State He, at least, as a philosophic looker-on at life, will spit upon such philistine opinions. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) But as usual the virtue of the philistines showed itself very weak in argument. Anarchism and Socialism And on its part, German Socialism recognized more and more its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty bourgeois philistine. Manifesto of the Communist Party It was quaint, there was nothing philistine about it and probably it had not cost so very much. The Paliser case The word familia did not originally signify the composite ideal of sentimentality and domestic strife in the present day philistine mind. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State That is why our civilisation produces so many bigots, so many philistines, so many pedants and prigs. The Book of Khalid Your "morality," not merely the morality of the bourgeois philistines, but the most elevated, the most humanitarian morality is only religion which has changed its supreme beings. Anarchism and Socialism It has drowned the most heavenly ecstacies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. Manifesto of the Communist Party The consciously artistic person often has a more irritating house than his innocently philistine grandfather had. Progress and History Nobody knows better than your German philistine that not all marriages follow such a course. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State The special form of this conclusion springs from this, as a matter of fact, that Hegel was a German, and, as in the case of his contemporary Goethe, he was somewhat of a philistine. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy The philistines of other lands shared this view of the "merits" of the daring publicist. Anarchism and Socialism It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the German petty philistine to be the typical man. Manifesto of the Communist Party But these sweet scamps are led by a real lord, a lord who, like most lords, is ready to out-philistine the philistines and out-blaspheme the blasphemers. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The descent of the gentes from common ancestors has caused the "schoolbred philistines," as Marx has it, much worry. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State In reading them one is not inclined to ask as of Schopenhauer's letters, why a philosophic genius of such depth should be laden with thousands of philistine trivialities. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 It has often been remarked by philosophers and philistines alike that the commonest facts of existence escape our attention until they are impressed upon it in some unusual way. The Merry-Go-Round But if he is neither an idealist, nor a philistine, nor a pleasure lover, surely he is compounded of such elements, and does not escape their implications. The Approach to Philosophy It might indeed be maintained that what Oscar Wilde is to the rarer and more perverse minority, Byron is to the solid majority of downright simple philistines. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Their states of feeling will be more alike than if a socialistic order had put them all on the same economic level of philistine comfort. Psychology and Social Sanity His standpoint was clearly philistine and, I regret to say, distinctly pagan. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914 Gautier's tales attained one of their purposes, that of astonishing the bourgeois; yet if he condescended to ideas, his ideas on all subjects except art had less value than those of the philistine. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. They listened—all but the chauffeur, that philistine, who opened the hood and gingerly felt of the heated engine. The House of Toys Goldoni, who got into a war with 603Gozzi, made Pantaleone a philistine, who used good sense against the follies of fashion. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The genius of mankind cannot be deceived by philistine phrases about the conspiracy of silence. Psychology and Social Sanity His brother-in-law must have appeared to him, to use the language of shore people, a perfect philistine with a heart like a flint. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Executed for love's sake,—will his work, inspired by love, be inferior to the art that to-day satisfies the vanity of the philistine, because it has cost much money? The Conquest of Bread The philistine yawned and turned his passengers' thoughts to a more interesting matter. The House of Toys It seems that now those notions are thought to be philistine, and there is a reaction towards the old aristocratic standards. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Thus the philistine and the hypocrite join hands with the simple-minded idealist. The Task of Social Hygiene The day before its revolution, it is the abject vassal of less than Rome, of Prussia and Austria, of country squires and philistines. Selected Essays Art is in our ideal synonymous with creation, it must look ahead; but save a few rare, very rare exceptions, the professional artist remains too philistine to perceive new horizons. The Conquest of Bread We all know persons who are models of excellence, but who belong to the extreme philistine type of mind. Memories and Studies What seems a sounder complaint is that the phonograph, because it reproduces with equal readiness music and the spoken word, may become an effective instrument of satire in the hands of the clever philistine. The Joyful Heart She felt like an artist whose great work has been scorned by the philistines. One Woman's Life Even the moral self-esteem of the German middle class is only based on the consciousness of being the general representative of the philistine mediocrity of all the other classes. Selected Essays As to the laziness of the great majority of workers, only philistine economists and philanthropists can utter such nonsense. The Conquest of Bread "I'd really prefer to leave all that sort of vandalism to the other side; it's so philistine, you know." The Henchman Yet who is there does not know the paralyzing chill that the sneer of the philistine or even the memory of our own many failures can give when great possibilities offer themselves to us? Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals The same charge was brought by philistines against the best works of Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner. Chopin and Other Musical Essays The philistine of culture is the most comfortable creature the sun has ever shone upon: and he is doubtless also in possession of the corresponding stupidity. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 A true philistine is not only convinced that he holds the only true and consistent position, but he is also entirely satisfied with himself. Books and Culture Let us admit that it has been the result of a bad masculine influence upon women, that it has been supreme because men have become philistine; but the fact remains that it has been bad. Essays on Art Du Maurier became its satirist; Bunthorn and Postlethwaite presented it to the philistine understanding in a grotesque mixture of caricature and quackery. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Not one among them dares to give the philistines a slap in the face. His Masterpiece The objective, emasculated philologist, who is but a philistine of culture and a worker in "pure science," is, however, a sad spectacle. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 Where it was they never told a philistine. The Flower of the Chapdelaines We need not trouble ourselves about the fact that art will seem waste to the philistine and not to the artist. Essays on Art How can we define in a sentence words like renaissance, philistine, sentimentalism, transcendental, Bohemia, pre-Raphaelite, impressionist, realistic? A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century There are a lot of idiots, a lot of philistines watching me, who would say all manner of things—' 'You are quite right, old man. His Masterpiece Nothing could be more modern, more middle-class, more popular, more philistine than the production of J.'s workrooms. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls And if the anarchists call us philistines and the philistines call us anarchists, it is fairly likely that we are seeing things pretty much as they are. Recent Developments in European Thought Sweet girl, witty in her own way, but philistine. The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story Their poetic home was built upon all the philistine virtues. Robert Browning You ought to see the style he has already assumed—all the idiotic austerity of a philistine, who has turned over a new leaf.' His Masterpiece It was far from being the busy, if somewhat philistine, musical centre we know to-day. Wagner Accordingly the manuscript was despatched to London, and Neville, the philistine brother, was called upon to leave it at the residence of the Duchess of Devonshire. Shandygaff Now there, Holland, there is one of your philistine words,—circumstantial! The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story English civilization is so smug and hypocritical, so grossly philistine, and at bottom so brutal, that every first-rate Englishman necessarily becomes an outlaw. Since Cézanne She was not sufficiently a philistine to defend him. His Masterpiece But so, also, has he who stands outside of the actual civic field, whether as philistine or aesthete, utopist or cynic, party politician or "mug-wump." Civics: as Applied Sociology "I am afraid," I said severely, "that you are a philistine!" Spanish Doubloons I begin, then, with aspects that are literal, objective, more or less cynical, and brutal, and philistine. Architecture and Democracy In short, most of the precious objects now to be found in the Cluny museum, which have miraculously escaped the crude barbarism of the philistines, come from the ancient French abbeys. Against the Grain Some of the usual customers had taken possession of the adjacent tables, and these philistines cast sidelong glances at the artists' corner, glances in which contempt was curiously mingled with a kind of uneasy deference. His Masterpiece And further, it is because they are philistines that modern society, to which they give the tone and where they have sway, has become corrupted. Essays of Schopenhauer I'll not have Von Blitz saying, even to himself, that I have not only stolen his wives but have also cast him into the hands of his philistines. The Man from Brodney's Amory had seen Monsignor go to the houses of stolid philistines, read popular novels furiously, saturate himself in routine, to escape from that horror. This Side of Paradise It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. The Communist Manifesto I am a stranger in a strange city and I am buffeted by the philistines. Of Human Bondage The philistine philosophers will talk of "delusion" and contend that only the perceptions of day are real and those of sleep a mere delusion. The Bride of Dreams How could anyone of his complex temperament endure the idea of a philistine ménage? Sanine "Now will you say that you are a good philistine?" Cæsar or Nothing Margaret laughed at Isabelle's philistine horror of the Goring household, and amused herself with suggesting more of the philosophy of the Intellectuals, the creed of Woman's Independence. Together In Paris he had come by the opinion that marriage was a ridiculous institution of the philistines. Of Human Bondage The lay philistine will consider them an idle play of the imagination for his amusement, and speedily forget them. The Bride of Dreams How can the poet satisfy the philistine world that his songs are worth while? The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It is true that I want to be a philistine, but a philistine out in the real world. Cæsar or Nothing The other definition can be more easily elucidated, indicating, as it does, satisfactorily enough, the essential nature of all those qualities which distinguish the philistine. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life Although heart, lungs, and stomach contribute much more to the continued existence of the whole body, these philistines cannot on that account be allowed to guide and lead. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature I record it, undisturbed by the fear that these pages may fall into the hands of the herd of philistines. The Bride of Dreams It seems that the philistine's quarrel with the poet arises from the fact that, unlike the makers of phonograph records, the poet dares to follow feeling in defiance of public sentiment. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years The cosmopolitan Antiochenes returned the compliment, regarding Romans as mere duffers in depravity, philistines in art, but capable in war and government, and consequently to be feared, if not respected. Caesar Dies The philistine's life is animated by no desire to gain knowledge and insight for their own sake, or to experience that true aeesthetic pleasure which is so nearly akin to them. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life In any conflict between the better consciousness and reason, if the individual decides for reason, should it be theoretical reason, he becomes a narrow, pedantic philistine; should it be practical, a rascal. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature The philistine scholar will smilingly utter a few words of authority, whereby he will consider the matter explained and settled. The Bride of Dreams This hostile public may be roughly divided into three camps, made up, respectively, of philistines, philosophers, and puritans. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Upon Ann 'Lisbeth, untrained in any craft, it was as if the workaday world turned its back, nettled at a philistine. Gaslight Sonatas The peculiar characteristic of the philistine is a dull, dry kind of gravity, akin to that of animals. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life Now by Heracles—I can swear by you, I certainly cannot swear by your plan—what a crude—what a shockingly philistine suggestion! Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Secondly, the bourgeois, whom he called philistines, - the humbly living, contented, narrow-minded, timid, - whom he did not hate as much as he despised them with fervid scorn. The Bride of Dreams It is refreshing, after witnessing too much whitewashing of Burns, to find James Russell Lowell bringing Burns down to a level where the attacks of philistines, though unwarranted, are not sacrilegious. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years There is a factor here which realistic and experienced men do take into account, and it helps to mark them off somehow from the opportunist, the visionary, the philistine and the pedant. Public Opinion Nothing really pleases, or excites, or interests him, for sensual pleasure is quickly exhausted, and the society of philistines soon becomes burdensome, and one may even get tired of playing cards. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life But do not make the idea of turning into a philistine more unpleasant than it naturally is.' Greifenstein Priests, women and philistines had been too mighty or too cunning for him; now he would at least keep me, his successor in the world, out of their hands. The Bride of Dreams But invariably, whatever a poet hero's failings maybe, the author assures the philistine public that it is entirely to blame. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years The person who uses the wrong time-conception ranges from the dreamer who ignores the present to the philistine who can see nothing else. Public Opinion The great affliction of all philistines is that they have no interest in ideas, and that, to escape being bored, they are in constant need of realities. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life With Korps students, the butterfly becomes sooner or later a crawling, philistine grub. Greifenstein The type of men which my father called philistines has this common characteristic, that for all wonders and mysteries they forthwith find a convenient explanation. The Bride of Dreams If it be true that the poet occasionally commits an error, he points out that it is the result of the philistine's corruption, not his own. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years The philistine's objection to art is that it is useless. The Principles of Aesthetics They usually involve grubby politicians, pawky bankers, and philistine businessmen - rather than glamorous hackers and James Bondean secret agents. Crime and Corruption To- morrow another would be chosen in his place, and to-morrow he was to join the dull ranks of the outer philistines. Greifenstein And finally I visited with my father the little village where Spinoza led his quiet philistine's life, and patiently bored the hole through which the confined thoughts could find an outlet. The Bride of Dreams The philosopher, like the philistine, may tolerate feeling within limits. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Surely the philistine is no competent judge; for he only can judge fairly between two values who appreciates both, and, by his own confession, the philistine does not appreciate art. The Principles of Aesthetics It might even be said that these social functions occurred rather more frequently than was advisable for the reputation of a civil servant of this little philistine state. My Life — Volume 1 But it must have pressed hard the philistines. Chopin : the Man and His Music I say it, I, old hermit among the philistines, and my peace rests upon this knowledge. The Bride of Dreams The puritan, of course, gives vent to the most bitter hostility of all, for, unlike the philistine and the philosopher, he regards natural feeling as wholly corrupt. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Hence the claim of the philistine seems not to merit consideration. The Principles of Aesthetics The philistines are upon us, be silent; let us serve the good Duke of Norfolk. The Merry Devil When it appeared it won philistine praise, for its form more nearly approximates the sonata than any of his efforts in the cyclical order, excepting op. Chopin : the Man and His Music And surely that was his meaning when he threw scorn upon 'bores and philistines'. The Whirlpool The beauty-blind philistine doubtless has some cause for bewilderment, but the poet takes no pains to placate him. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Or let an interest in art become fashionable, and once again the philistine is won over. The Principles of Aesthetics I was very much shocked then to see how it was built-over and altered; and the other day we heard that the philistines were going to landscape-garden it. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Really, is any great genius quite sane according to philistine standards? Chopin : the Man and His Music In vain Helmer uses the old philistine arguments of wifely duty and social obligations. Anarchism and Other Essays Whatever its justification, the excuse for the poets flaunting an addiction to immorality lies in the obnoxiousness of the philistine element among their enemies. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Does the philistine feed the poor and save the sinners? The Principles of Aesthetics So much for your philistine ignorance of the possibilities of a romantic city. The Club of Queer Trades His brother-in-law must have appeared to him, to use the language of shore people, a perfect philistine with a heart like a flint. Chance A Tale in Two Parts A craftsman wants to shine with some foolishness in another craft, and ``the philistine is happiest when he is considered a devil of a fellow.'' Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The attitude is also characteristic of another anomalous type which flourished in America fifty years ago, whose verse represents an attempted fusion of emasculated poetry and philistine piety. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years It costs little to maintain an artist, but it taxes thousands to support the philistine and his wife. The Principles of Aesthetics Yes, dear boy, such and such a philistine is to such another as Raphael is to Natoire. The Firm of Nucingen It struck her as so queer, and yet she was a little shocked by it, for she was really quite the philistine outside the pale of her own habits. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Three classes of people, the puritans, the philistines, and the proletarians, question the value of art in this sense. The Principles of Aesthetics 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 poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years The insincerity of the philistine's attitude is disclosed by his changed attitude towards the artist who acquires fame and wealth through his art. The Principles of Aesthetics To the puritan, art is immoral; to the philistine, it is useless; to the proletarian, it is a cruel waste. The Principles of Aesthetics For now that the artist shows himself capable of getting the things the philistine values, the latter accords him esteem. The Principles of Aesthetics The traditional hostility between the philistine and the artist is offensive to reason, which would discover points of contact and reconciliation between all attitudes. The Principles of Aesthetics The Athenian democracy was probably not quite so stupid as Aristophanes represents it; the average Britisher is not so philistine as Shaw paints him. The Principles of Aesthetics But, not being much given to abstract reflection, the philistine is usually at a loss to inform us. The Principles of Aesthetics |
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