| But is curing British philistinism a job for Brussels? Eurocrats talk of the efficiency of spending money through regions. |
| Their libertarianism was more aesthetic than political, an assertion of personal autonomy against repressive philistinism. |
| He was always criticized for his philistinism and his overweening self-confidence. |
| But there is a kind of philistinism about regarding books as only having worth if they are old and valuable. |
| Why, given the government's unequalled record of philistinism, this desire to spend a fortune on what would be one of the world's biggest theatre complexes? |
| The literary establishment's incoherent critique combines snobbish disdain for popular culture with an ahistorical philistinism. |
