| 单词 | philistinism |
| 例句 | Given the aforementioned philistinism, I wonder why that is, and I wonder if I'm alone in this reaction. Anna Nicole: Kiss goodbye to those Viking hats 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z The whipping he received over The Corrections was his first experience of being publicly reviled, and he blames it on the prevailing mood of philistinism. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z I would argue that some degree of philistinism has existed in fashion since designers and their clever business partners realized in the 1980s that they could generate quick cash by licensing their names. On the Runway: Are You Mad, Too? 2011-01-14T19:02:39Z As a result, she was accused of snobbery and also of philistinism, and at various points in her oeuvre both charges seem to stick. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z Am I guilty of a peculiarly modern philistinism? How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Nelson Rockefeller was not amused and ordered it destroyed, one of the most appalling acts of philistinism in the history of modern art. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But there is an appetite for a certain kind of philistinism in our culture. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Two days later, Stalin’s displeasure was made manifest in an unsigned editorial in Pravda, titled “Muddle Instead of Music”—possibly the most chilling document of philistinism in music history. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Not that I think the movies are dying, any more than they have been dying for the past 90 years or so, as they were fatally menaced by sound, television, corporate greed and audience philistinism. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Smith’s narrative conveys the system’s unthinking superiority, the lazy morality, the philistinism, the sense of demanded privilege and analyzes it cannily. A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But suggest these things are wrong and you get hordes of opera lovers rising up to loudly protest your philistinism and ignorance. Review | A ‘Butterfly’ without the stereotypes takes flight at In Series 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z It would be easy to assume that we could pin the blame for this kind of philistinism squarely on the narrow-minded judges themselves. Noises off: On literature and the living wage 2010-06-08T16:18:00Z The biographer Sir Michael Holroyd said: "The wanton destruction of the Kensal Rise Library – its books removed, its history erased – is a gross act of philistinism which will bring lasting shame to all involved." Kensal Rise library stripped in night of books and Twain plaque 2012-05-29T18:51:27Z What Roth saw, himself bruised and embittered by these vilifications, was ignorant philistinism by minds impenetrable to the comical and freewheeling and antic liberties of good-natured satire. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Koons’s admirers place him in a vanguard of challenging art, and to criticize him is to risk philistinism. Jeff Koons Unveils His Iffy “Bouquet of Tulips” for Paris 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Abridged versions of classic literature once rightly attracted charges of philistinism, whereas the act of concertinaing The Irishman is regarded as a necessary response to a hectic world. Who turned out the lights? How the decade's final month changed cinema for ever 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z For director David Pountney, the opera resonates with postwar cults of artistic celebrity as well as with ideas of collusion with bourgeois philistinism or totalitarian politics. The Portrait - review 2011-02-03T16:56:25Z This suite is a collection of wondrous dances playfully meant as the battle cries of Schumann’s contemporary circle, the David’s Club, against the forces of musical philistinism. Classical Music & Opera Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive James Shapiro's Contested Will concentrates on the lunatic fringe of Shakespeare authorship theories – a fascinating topic, to be sure, if you admire snobbery, philistinism and ignorance. Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ugly | Michael Caines 2010-04-05T11:16:00Z Call it inverse philistinism: the use of intentionally bad imagery, perhaps with a wink, to create an “us-them” dynamic. Perspective | Trump NFTs are not art. Unless you consider grifting an art form. 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z That’s a little wordy; Marx summarizes it thusly with a rather blunt bit of philistinism: “Art should avoid being for art’s sake when social equity is at stake.” Opinion | Why Spotify and other streaming services can’t ditch Kanye West 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The Kennedy Center has become a repository of philistinism, much to my regret. Opinion | Performance venues should keep paper programs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Attacks on books occupy a special place among the signposts of philistinism and anti-democratic suppression. Column: Book-banning is on the rise, as part of the far-right's assault on democracy 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Swed pays tribute to a writer “who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.” Essential Arts: Plácido Domingo's L.A. Opera exit leads to questions of legacy 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Do these trends reflect the philistinism of late liberalism or capitalism? Opinion | The Last Great American Novelist 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Mulvaney began his tenure with an open display of cocksure philistinism, taking potshots at Warren at a conference of appreciative credit union executives. Column: Why is Trump's consumer protection agency helping to promote H&R Block's credit card? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Profit-hunger, philistinism and misanthropy are and always have been at the core of the enterprise. How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley | Corey Pein 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z This anxiety-laden emphasis on the supposed necessity of interpretive explanation — of storytelling — is what Susan Sontag once called “a subtle or not so subtle form of philistinism.” It takes a striptease to enliven 'Stories of Almost Everyone' at the Hammer Museum 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Her early dislike of Joni Mitchell is used as a segue into a discussion of philistinism and taste. Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Volle, 70, claimed the refusals showed the philistinism of modern publishing, which was “abandoning literary works that are not easy to read or that will not set sales records”. 'Endlessly long': Nobel prizewinning book turned down by 19 publishers 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z But the ease with which today's justice warriors simplistically judge and dismiss it, using the jargon de jour, is simply another form of philistinism at best, and Maoist-style cultural revolution at worse. Opinion | An Abomination. A Monster. That’s Me? 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z And Lin’s success has reinforced a popular but shopworn narrative about the lonely artist with a vision fighting and prevailing over philistinism. Fighting a war over a war memorial 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Cool, decent people don’t support Trump or Farage but this is replayed back to their base not as philistinism but as a badge of their insurgency against an elite. The fightback against Trump starts with Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech | Suzanne Moore 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z From his perspective, the 1952 election captured everything wrong with American political life, with Dwight Eisenhower’s “philistinism” winning over Adlai Stevenson’s “intellect.” How ‘Elites’ Became One of the Nastiest Epithets in American Politics 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry. Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z There is an assumption of philistinism, I say. Jay McInerney: 'You can only blow up your life so many times before it becomes ridiculous' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z And there’s another reason to shrug off the art market’s philistinism. Art for snobs: what's keeping great paintings from the public? 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Falwell’s support of Trump, meanwhile, is no surprise: After the billionaire spoke at Liberty last week – and flubbed a Bible verse, a mistake said to reveal Trump’s philistinism – Falwell publicly forgave the candidate’s gaffe. Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Trump 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The best works produced under Company patronage are unparalleled in Indian art and show a sympathy with the Mughal world quite at odds with prevailing stereotypes of colonial philistinism and insensitivity. The vivid paintings that record a Briton's love of Delhi - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Liberal arts has not been killed by parental or student philistinism, or the cupidity of today’s educational institutions whose excessive costs have made the liberal arts into an unattainable luxury. The Suicide of the Liberal Arts 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z “Frankly I don’t share it. Neither am I, or my fellow trustees, in favour of the ‘Let it fall down’ school of thought, which is simply an excuse for idleness, apathy and philistinism. Inside Venice's bid to hold back the tide 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s usually a little funny when this happens and prompts lots of lightly outraged stories about Facebook’s philistinism and discussions about context and censorship and what is art, anyway? Art critic Jerry Saltz suspended from Facebook 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z It's her philistinism, her ignorance, and the way she revels in her ignorance. Hilary Mantel: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: August 6th 1983 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z But a few, like Herder and Schubert, raised their voices against such philistinism. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z He had not expected to find so pleasant a house; verily, the marks of philistinism were not upon it. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Within the church itself, modern low-backed pews had supplanted the ancient square boxes during an outbreak of philistinism in the fifties. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z It was not without some regret that he departed, yet on the whole content to return to Burschenfreiheit and fidelity to the creed whose chief article is disdain of philistinism. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z In Chicago, for all its philistinism, there is the condition of hope that is half the spiritual battle, whatever stockades the puritans try to build. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Russian bloggers pounced on the archpriest's letter with one hostile writer, Dmitry Yakushev, describing it as "medieval philistinism" and accusing the author of launching a witch hunt. Orthodox cleric urges Russian 'dress code' 2011-01-18T14:42:28Z They fear a new age of philistinism, a moment when the nation finally gives up on serious culture and focuses instead on making money and inebriating itself on talent contests and celebrity chat shows. Learning wars 2011-01-07T17:13:09Z But valuable engravings adorned the walls, and the customary pier-glass was hidden behind an old copy of the Madonna di Foligno, who looked down in serene loftiness upon the poverty of northern philistinism. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Here we miss the robust philistinism of the eternal schoolboy, and the atmosphere of reality which pervades Tom Brown. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z In his mental caliber and his pungent philistinism of expression he reminded me of Hubbard, but in his physical attitude there was nothing of that greasy orator. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z “As far as I’m concerned, this is philistinism on a large scale,” said Paul Cottrell, the head of policy at the University and College Union, which represents teachers in higher education. Universities in Britain Brace for Cuts in Subsidies 2010-10-16T05:08:00Z Chief executives such as Ivan Gazidis, at Arsenal, seem to understand what a football club is, that it is not "just a business like any other", the spivvy Thatcherite philistinism which dominated through the 1990s. Martin Broughton comes out roaring after quiet man saves Liverpool 2010-10-13T18:23:00Z She knew nothing of the modern cant, of the nineteenth century philistinism, at which it was so much the fashion to scoff. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Thus while Keene takes things dispassionately as they come, seeing only the humorous side of them, we find Du Maurier ever and anon attacking some new phase of snobbishness or philistinism or cant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" With such petty notions and measures, born of a near-sighted philistinism, the gigantic growing ills of the day are not to be healed. Woman under socialism Modern charity, in its philistinism and well-regulated activity, condemns such wholesale readiness to take burdens which might sometimes be borne by those who lay them down. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome Goethe and Hegel, each of them was an Olympian Zeus in his own sphere, but they were neither of them quite free from German philistinism. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy It was a picture of suburban desolation, the home of poverty-stricken philistinism, uncaring and uncared for. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 I know Americans of culture, know and love them; but I feel them to be lost in the sea of philistinism. Appearances Being Notes of Travel To Mrs. Crowley he seemed always an embodiment of British philistinism; and if she liked him for his devotion to Lucy, she laughed at him for his stolidity. The Explorer Mr. Gladstone has put himself on record against this philistinism, saying that "psychical research is by far the most important work that is being done in the world." Miracles and Supernatural Religion He was inspired, not by past perfection of the Italians among whom he came to live, but by those of the decline, and on this he grafted a bit of Northern philistinism. The Tapestry Book Shall 'Arry, whom I have hewn down, still live among us by outrage of this kind, and impose his memory upon our pavement by the public perpetration of his posthumous philistinism? The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The most learned scholar reveals all the philistinism and prejudice of the man-on-the-curbstone when mores are in discussion. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals She would no longer be the unknown wife of a country banker, moving in a narrow sphere, which was altogether painful to her in its provincial philistinism. Cobwebs and Cables 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. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Thirdly, p. 32a disgust at his philistinism in refusing to bow down and worship the regnant idols of ‘taste.’ Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 Our scientific assumptions admit just as much of an interpretation and utilisation in favour of a besotting philistinism—yea, in favour of bestiality—as also in favour of "blessedness" and soul-inspiration. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 The latter represented freedom and cleverness at war with philistinism. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely. Books and Culture And ever thereafter the subtle suggestion of a fat philistinism lingers along that path of progress like an assertion of a possessory right. A Cynic Looks at Life At once you are covered with reproaches for your philistinism. Humanly Speaking We may talk wisely and at length of his commonplaceness, lack of spice, philistinism; he can be counted on to amuse us. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities It is a frequent object of Arnold's irony as the mouthpiece of English philistinism. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold But here is something outside the classical tradition, outside what imperial Rome with its philistinism and its puritanism has made of the art of Greece and thrust perhaps for ever upon Europe. Ravenna, a Study 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, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue. Without Dogma To both of them, art was always a religion; there was no philistinism or charlatanism in the soul or the career of either. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 It is a highly original critique of philistinism and gradgrindism in education, library science, science in general, and life in general. The Education of the Child Cronshaw was astute enough to know that the young man disapproved of him, and he attacked his philistinism with an irony which was sometimes playful but often very keen. Of Human Bondage 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. The Market-Place She was abashed at her philistinism, and begged me not to tell her father—he would make such fun of her! The Greater Inclination Life was divided by a sharp line into two portions, of which the sadder began when rapier and colours were hung up at home to accumulate the dust that falls from philistinism. Greifenstein The story no longer affected either of them, and to worry oneself about it was mere "philistinism," a favourite term with Piers at that day. The Crown of Life With all schools of painting she was, of course, quite familiar; the great masters—vulgarly so known—interested her but moderately, and to praise them was, in her eyes, to incur a suspicion of philistinism. The Emancipated The incarnate ideal of British philistinism is sure to have a career before him.' Thyrza Very slightly original; just enough to mark a protest against the philistinism of the overfed taskmasters of the poor. A Set of Six It is the same, more or less, with all European countries, but the Saxon temperament, with its mixture of philosophy and philistinism, more than any other, gravitates towards the life mechanical. The Malefactor I began by hauling old Lamb, puffing and blowing like a grampus, up to Amy Villa, filling him up all the way with denunciations of Simla's philistinism and suggestions that he alone redeemed it. The Pool in the Desert |
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