Sentences with phrase «own philistinism»

In this place I could read and still think that I was part of what held up a wall against any philistinism that would attempt to violate the quiet grandeur of what the history of Galveston in its archives and rare books contained.

But philistinism spiritlessly celebrates its triumph.

Philistinism lacks every determinant of spirit and terminates in probability, within which the possible finds its insignificant place.

For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

Philistinism lacks possibility as revival from spiritlessness.

Philistinism is spiritlessness, in the literal sense of the word; determinism and fatalism are spiritual despair; but such spiritlessness is also despair.

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.

If it is really true that all the Philistinism I behold in life (which I do not permit my word but my actions to condemn) is not what it seems to be — is it the miracle?

For them to assume that mere economic and social advance would serve as an adequate surrogate was gross philistinism, unworthy of heirs of the Jewish spirit.

There is also a twisted inheritance from a more traditional Establishment philistinism.

Benign neglect is one thing, but wanton destruction, often as a result of local authority cost cutting, was cultural philistinism at its worst.

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.

Nice pictures would form a nice impression of you, if it's philistinism or disordered, people who see it will feel you an idiotic girl, at least not worthy of precious.

Like the (far superior) recent Russian film «Elena,» Child's Pose paints a compelling portrait of post-Soviet capitalism in all its uncorked appetites, its brash cronyism and graft, its pretensions, its clueless philistinism.

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.

There is Bennett's «savagely Swiftian indignation against stupidity, Philistinism and arrogance in public places [which offers] a passionate argument for the civilizing power of art» (The London Times).

The circle is a vicious one, in which philistinism and frivolity mutually re-enforce each other.

Baudelaire's attitude toward photography borders on philistinism: an odd stance for a pioneer of modernism.

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.

«This philistinism must stop for the sake of future generations and the survival of the planet.»

The United States Information Agency (USIA) even organized exhibitions of abstract expressionism in response to accusations of American «philistinism.»

Dover freely admits to his own philistinism.