| Call me a heathen if you will, call me a philistine if the whim takes you, but I don't understand most modern art. |
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| The public refuses its masochistic role as philistine, seeking affirmation instead in an art of generosity and pleasure. |
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| It turns out that nearly everyone, Japanese or otherwise, is a philistine in the condescending and rather snobbish world view of the film. |
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| He derides the parents as philistine consumerists unduly concerned with their children's earning potentials. |
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| Already this year, the city has revealed itself to be unusually philistine in the fields of architecture and art. |
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| When asked how long they spent making something, most artists assume that the questioner is a philistine. |
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| For Adorno, a philistine is someone who can only experience the work as a mere thing. |
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| Call me a philistine, but his experimental noise, if it can be charitably described as such, could make hounds howl. |
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| Seeing his work here does give some context, even if I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings. |
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| Of course, I guess it's possible that these books are all pretty well known to literate Americans and I'm just a philistine. |
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| Such cuts are also an expression of cultural vandalism and philistine indifference. |
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| Stanley, a brusquely philistine furniture manufacturer, and Louise, his artily pretentious wife, exist in a state of permanent war. |
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| Call me a lowbrow, a philistine if you like, but I wasn't lured to Vienna by any of these. |
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| So, if I'm a philistine I'm proud to be one and please let's stop bad-mouthing a people of whom we know not nearly enough. |
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| This is a philistine agenda, subjecting universities' research and teaching to the narrow interests of the British economy. |
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| The damage to the intellectual and moral fabric of society resulting from such a mercenary and philistine approach is impossible to quantify. |
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| As the appalling media response to the Momart fire has reminded us, what art needs most is defending from the philistine hordes. |
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| There were some amazing works there, although I'm sure they were completely wasted on my philistine eyes. |
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| A prescriptive list of buildings meriting destruction, however, is simply philistine. |
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| Its detractors found it philistine, and indeed there are few mentions in the novel of any intellectual pursuits. |
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| In that influential 1964 text, Sontag denounced what she termed a reactionary and philistine tendency to bury works of art underneath theory-heavy interpretations. |
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| I flatter myself as cultured, but I'm evidently a proper philistine. |
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| Like Bush, he is widely regarded as a philistine and intellectually limited man, whose pomposity and sense of self-importance are exceeded only by his provincialism. |
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| We toasted our good fortune and berated philistine rail modernisers as we gently rocked our way out of London. |
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| But he manages to confound those who dismiss him as a free-market philistine. |
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| So far, however philistine and ruthless their motivations seem to the industry's old guard, private-equity firms are making media work better. |
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| And that's the question that has caused a great deal of controversy, because that brings in philistine notions of commercialism. |
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| The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies. |
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| But on the whole, this is a great book to give to your colleagues in the humanities who think that anyone who does mathematics must be an unlettered philistine. |
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| In this case, the higher powers are film censors, whether philistine Senators or the timorous, arbitrary ethicists of the MPAA, valiantly guarding us from ourselves. |
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| Call me a philistine, but I have small patience for Samuel Beckett, can tolerate only small doses of serial atonality, and am bored numb by recitative. |
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| The culture of these two cities has grown steadily more philistine. |
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| The policy is philistine, expensive and environmentally disastrous. |
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| Beneath this undercurrent of grumbling is the philistine assumption that it is elitist or irrelevant to consider art which does not excite the mass market. |
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| The assault upon the English universities is so violent and philistine, it represents the academic equivalent of the dissolution of the monasteries. |
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| Her posturing nationalism and xenophobic fear of English speaking culture Canada shares with the U. S., Britain, Australia and a quarter of the world are philistine absurdities and a national embarrassment. |
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| Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator? |
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| The reactionary rants and philistine jibes are undimmed. |
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| This is a traditionally philistine and antiintellectual country. |
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| Lest you think GWS is a snooty Philistine, I'll share that I'm a great lover of old English villages and towns. |
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| And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. |
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| Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine. |
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| He also burned Philistine fields showing classic ASPD impulsiveness and inability to conform to social norms. |
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| Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands. |
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