Sentences with phrase «on philistinism»
Baudelaire's attitude toward photography borders on philistinism: an odd stance for a pioneer of modernism.
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It strikes me with something akin to terror to think how we permitted ourselves to be taken in, silenced and neutralized, by the boyish grin and a trickle - down prosperity while resurgent racism, Rambo militarism, cultural philistinism, and unregulated, let - them - eat - cake capitalism swaggered across the stage on an eight - year run.
The knee - jerk reaction is to decry the YouCut review as an act of philistinism by a party conducting a war on science, and to say that only qualified experts are able to judge whether research dollars are well spent.
The story of an aging French actor who - after learning his family has been killed in an accident - still carries on with his career, enjoys his morning espresso and newspaper, appreciates the endless beauty that is Paris, and takes a stand against the philistinism that plagues his professional life.
Perhaps the Turner Prize could handle routine local authority philistinism, but the heavy - handed Magic Christian mockery of the KLF, the group of rock biz pranksters who doubled the prize money with an award for what they called the worst artist of the four on the shortlist, seemed to be too much for the Prize's fragile sense of purpose.