Sentences with word «philistine»

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.

Do you really have «enemies» (like Philistine giants out to get you)?

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

As philistine as it sounds, I don't think the art world cares how the outside of the new Whitney looks.

They're a modern day Astaire and Rodgers, and if you utter philistines don't know who they are, please go check yourself before you watch all their movies.

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

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

In a week which has seen the controversial «a» - word, or more specifically the widely criticised «T» - word, lauded as both an unquestionable entity exempt from critique, slander or opinion, and as a cultural philistine ruining art's good name, the debate rages on.

Researchers are trying to extract DNA from skeletons buried in the ancient Philistine cemetery of Ashkelon, in what is now Israel.

I know two or three of my contemporaries who were, by cultural standards, total philistines in their boyhood, but they used to read a considerable amount of rubbish and have now, from the habit of reading, become considerably more literate than I.

(Geez, which philistine's work were they trying to pawn off?

And the difficulty in our expansive modern life lies here: ever achieving new powers, enlarging our opportunities, widening our liberties and everywhere complicating our lives, we forget that, unless we correspondingly strengthen our moral and spiritual foundations, the whole overextended superstructure will come down about our ears, as did the old Philistine banquet hall when Samson broke the pillars.

Ferguson listens as one speaker portrays Lincoln as a syphilitic, money - grubbing Philistine who spoiled his children and slighted his wife.

I put aside my fear of sounding like a Napa philistine and dared to ask the question to the folks at McGah Family Cellars.

To find the Philistines» origins, researchers have studied artifacts and remains from ancient Philistine cities in Israel.

Philistine Films was created to support new voices and to offer a platform for the emerging independent Arab film scene.

Despite being a complete art philistine.

«It sounds philistine, but I could hear the cash register ringing in my head.»

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.

This cultivated sense of neglect, even oppression, at the hands of the bourgeois philistines became the classic pose of the avant - garde.

And while they quarrel, the Syrians of Damascus, the Egyptians under Pharaoh Shishak I (I Kings 14:25 - 28), and even the old and vastly weakened Philistine enemy make life hazardous for one or the other segment of the broken kingdom.

Campbell thinks that only spiritual philistines worry about whether an actual person was literally crucified.

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.

Oh, some cultural philistine removed Eleanor's masterful reply.

You should see the balloon trick I do to illustrate David and the 100 Philistine foreskins.

They were wonderful — not too sweet, nutty, a fantastic texture, but I think the honey might have been almost too strong (does this make me a honey philistine?).

It is clearly less Philistine than many cities of comparable size, compensating for certain deficiencies in formal culture with its sense of integrated identity, its own zestful folklore.

Everyone — friend and foe, enlightened comrade and benighted philistine — has cause to be grateful for that.

Furthermore, he has condemned the Gay Games and mocked Council Member Tom Duane saying, «Does he (Duane) think I would tremble with fear, and run and kneel before this insignificant uncircumcised Philistine?

«But the archaeology has shown them to be more than that,» says Harvard archaeologist Adam Aja, assistant director of excavations at Tel Ashkelon, a major Philistine port city in southern Israel.

But to confirm the origins and fates of Philistines, archaeologists needed more than scraps; they needed Philistine bones.

Philistine history was written by their rivals, and unfortunately for them, that text became a best - seller: the Bible.

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

Believe you me, I'm not a total philistine snob, but even you enjoy the type of philosophical film - making that forces you to dissect for meaning (which I do) this is still too much.

Taken from the Old Testament's «Book of Judges,» this epic drama recounts the tale of the super-strong shepherd whose rise to power is cut - off by a seductive Philistine with an eye for human weakness.

There's always an undercutting humour so we don't take this tale of malformed children (a callously glib McGuffin) too seriously: as in the scene in which western - writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), the naive, philistine vehicle for Greene's anti-Americanism, gets dragooned into talking to a British Council literary meeting, a direct crib from The Thirty - Nine Steps.