| 11. | But he criticized the use of the press " in the pursuit of mediocrity and philistinism ."
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| 12. | Opponents of bilingual education have on their side a visceral philistinism seasoned with a dash of resurgent'90s racism.
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| 13. | Alan Woods has called it " a very healthy antidote to the superficial and pretentious philistinism of Isaac Deutscher ."
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| 14. | He despises the beautiful Big Zoe because of her philistinism, her love for beautiful things and for her selfishness.
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| 15. | He feels unfulfilled writing endless propaganda doggerel, and the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State make him restive.
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| 16. | The penny-pinching philistinism of the Leipzig town council in the 1730s shouldn't reduce these great works to Bach Lite.
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| 17. | Germans are fond of complaining about the philistinism of cultural politicians, and the situation has provided plenty of fuel for their arguments.
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| 18. | His philistinism, by which I mean his complete unconcern for the highest goals of any society, is so complete it is fascinating.
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| 19. | The rest of the poem is essentially a defense of Pound, who, like Capaneus, was fighting against the unsurmountable flood of philistinism.
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| 20. | The newspaper Sovetskaia Rossiia ( Soviet Russia ) attacked Vysotsky for offering Philistinism, vulgarity, and immorality under the guise of art.
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