Sentences with phrase «of philistine»

If you are some sort of Philistine who refuses to take advantage of the Cornell method, Levenger also has full - page ruled legal pads.

Humor was anathema to abstract art as long as abstraction itself was the butt of philistine jokes.

The New York Times, with John Canaday, was an absolute wall of philistine snobbery.

Back in the dark ages, the gourmet chef on the go was forced to leave behind the bulky sous vide cooker and resort to — ugh — regular oven meals when traveling, like some sort of philistine.

But you don't want to just ask your friends and neighbors for their urine, like some sort of philistine, for godsakes.

Rather stylish young people were seen rescuing a statuette from the hands of philistine developers, followed by liquid refreshment with the advertiser's product.

Remains of a Philistine laid to rest nearly 30 centuries ago at a newly discovered cemetery in Tel Ashkelon, Israel.

Since then, the Ashkelon team has been exhuming and analyzing the skeletons of Philistine men and women, from infancy to old age.

As I said that the Arab - citizen of Israel are about 20 % of Israel population, if Israel captures all the area of Philistine, then this will radicalize the Muslim population inside Israel, that will not be in favor of Israel.

The story of how Israelite tribes established firm possession of Canaan, drove out enemy raiders, and met the very severe crisis of the Philistine invasion by the institution of kingship, is narrated in the context of Israel's encounter with YHWH.

We think it is a problem which inheres in the name of the Philistine champion, not in the feat.

Truth absolute of Philistine is visible to every one, hindu Jews, criminal secular, self centered are by faith not, what they claim to be, HEBREW ISRAELITE, BUT HINDU JEWS, CRIMINAL SECULAR S OF EGYPTIAN AND PERSIAN ORIGIN, OUT TO HIND FOOL HUMANITY, HAVING NO RIGHT TO BE IN PHILISTINE.

And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.

Yet paradoxically the post-conciliar reforms were sometimes implemented in a spirit of philistine dismissal of «tradition» as nothing more than the dead hand of the past.

There is tragedy also in the very words of Philistine to Philistine, 4:9, and in the bitter scene of the birth and naming of the child Ichabod, Eli's grandson, 4:19 - 22.

Filmmakers in that position think studio execs are a bunch of philistines and marketing - minded meddlers, while the execs thinks a director is...

«We are becoming a nation of philistines.»

No artist should have to go through what Prince went through here, forced to reveal in detail his artistic process to bunch of philistines.

Not exact matches

The David of the Christian Bible and the Jewish Tanakh is perhaps best known for the story of David and Goliath, in which David, a young shepherd, defeats the Philistine Goliath with only his sling.

Usually the NEA held its nose and promoted that bad old, bland old, socially acceptable art, but occasionally it broke out and promoted the art of self - congratulatory complaint - and now (as the NEA sees it) the philistine Congress is howling for its blood.

Instead, each side has capitulated - each in its own way - to the philistine notion that art is necessarily about power: that all works of art, including the world's great masterpieces, are best understood as either attacks on the established social order or defenses of it....

However, after his youthful ambition leads to a tragic marriage, his acts of revenge put him into direct conflict with the Philistine army.

«This is where the philistine concept of art turns up with all its deadly obtuseness — an idea to which all technical considerations are foreign and which feels that with the provocative appearance of the new technology its end has come» (Walter Benjamin: Kleine Geschichte der Photographie in Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit Frankfurt 1963 p. 69).

Similarly, in the story of David and Goliath, when David heads out to face the giant Philistine foe, he clutches his sling and quietly begins to recite the 23rd Psalm, «Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.»

In the dictionary, a Philistine is not only «a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia» but «a crass, prosaic, often priggish individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic values.»

That may well be, but Algis Valiunas writes in the April issue of F IRST T HINGS that Stark also succumbs to a profoundly wrongheaded and «philistine» reading of Christianity.

Of course the response is condemned as a philistine reaction against today's so - called high culture, which has, for the most part, descended into a self - indulgent and transgressive vulgarity far removed from the panache and imagination of an earlier modernisOf course the response is condemned as a philistine reaction against today's so - called high culture, which has, for the most part, descended into a self - indulgent and transgressive vulgarity far removed from the panache and imagination of an earlier modernisof an earlier modernism.

He has trained and fought with a mighty band of warriors (geborim), some of whom on occasion have saved his life (21:15 - 17) or tilted with Philistine giants (21:18 - 21); and once, in a moving episode of mutual loyalty and admiration between men and leader, three of their number risked seemingly probable death to answer David's longing for the cool water of Bethlehem's well (23:13 - 17).

In the utterly tragic figure of old Eli and in the loss of the ark, the symbol of God's presence, from the central sanctuary at Shiloh (probably destroyed by the Philistines in this time), we are further prepared for the establishment of monarchy in Israel: it was Philistine aggression, far too powerful to be checked by the resources of a loose tribal confederation, which precipitated the chain of events leading through Saul and David to a unified and extensive, if short - lived, Israelite kingdom.

Saul, deprived of Samuel's support and no doubt aware of his own inadequacy and Israel's against Philistine aggression, suffers from severe depression and ironically finds the antidote to his illness only in David's musical gifts (16:13 - 23, A).

Now the ark is brought to the new capital of Jerusalem (6:1 - 16: this reminds us of the narrative of the ark's earlier potent taboo during and following its Philistine sojourn) and David secures Saul's daughter Michal, this time surely in an act predominantly politically motivated.

Cashing in on Power Rangers» popularity with children, a Vermont toy maker in 1995 marketed violent Holyland Heroes sets (Samson & Philistine; David & Goliath, Moses & Ramses II, Joshua & Canaanite), featuring muscular, grimacing toys wielding spears, swords, and, in Samson's case, the jawbone of a donkey — which the Bible says, he used to smite 1,000 men.

What, then, is more natural than that this temperament should introduce one to regions of religious truth, to corners of the universe, which your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt, thumping its breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn't a single morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self - satisfied possessors?

Excavators of Tell es - Safi (the Philistine city of Gath) have made many discoveries over 20 years of excavations, but in 2015 they found the monumental gate of Gath from the time of Goliath (its most famous resident).

In an opening section of which a theological scholar would be proud, Gladwell turns the tables on the classic interpretation of the shepherd boy's battle with the Philistine giant, gradually proving his theory that David actually went into the fight as the favourite.

John, in his paradoxical insistence that the world can not see the light which supposedly enlightens it, would not, I think, deny that even the unknowing, seemingly uncaring world sees glimpses of light — as in the case of our annual philistine rush to the crèche of neon and plastic.

According to the Chronicler, Uzziah also conquered the Philistine territory on the Mediterranean coast (26:6), exacted tribute from Ammon (v. 8), built up the fortifications of Jerusalem (v. 9), and, among other accomplishments including activity in Arabia, developed the Negeb, the desert region to the south of Judah (v. 10) Archaeology provides some strong confirmation of the Chronicler's record.

Though a host of his ideological enemies have branded him a «reactionary elitist» for his belief in objective aesthetic standards, Kramer is no Philistine.

There is hardly a literate person in the Western world who does not know the outline of the story of David's conquest of the giant Philistine, Goliath (I Sam.

Here is an eloquent description of Israel's impotence under Philistine domination:

The exchange between David and Ittai is all the more moving when we remember that Ittai is a foreigner, a Philistine, apparently in command of «the six hundred Gittites who had followed [David] from Gath» (II Sam.

The colorful four - verse episode of David before Achish, king of Gath, one of the five Philistine cities, with Achish's retort to his retinue in angry humor (21:12 if.)

After receipt of it, and before joining battle with the Egyptians at Eltekeh in the Philistine plain region, Sennacherib expressed his continuing distrust of Hezekiah in a note of sharp warning which Hezekiah took as more than warning; he took it as a threat to return and demolish the city of Jerusalem.

It is no longer philistine to lay the rude hands of logical analysis upon them — and they need not come out the worse for so doing, as Peirce noted so well in his paper «Neglected Argument» years back!

It is sadly true that the «best» are slowly withdrawing their commitment to an increasingly philistine academic culture and its institutional forms, filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

Once you can convince someone that you are the sole holder of the God's truth then it is easy to get them to sell all their belongings, abandon their families, participate in a jihad, a crusade, an inquisition, wipe out all the Philistine men, women and children, commit polygamy, refuse life saving blood transfusions, fly into buildings, relegate women to broodmare status, etc..

And then, in order, Philistia (four of the five major Philistine cities are named), Moab and Ammon, and Ethiopia are all denounced in bitterest terms, capped with this superbly articulated description of desolate Nineveh:

We see certain qualities which have been realistically preserved and recreated — this utterly noneuphemized story of the sojourning Levite and his concubine, the degenerate townsmen, the women's tragic fate and the unhappy mores which dictated the circumstances (cf. Gen. 19), the Levite's shockingly dramatic response, the attrition of Benjamin, and the episodes of that tribe's very meager reconstitution [was Benjamin in fact depleted by Philistine massacre over the years?].

(It is not accidental that tours of the Holy Land tend to avoid the coastal plains: the ancient cities there were Philistine and Phoenician, not Israelite.)

There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint.