Sentences with phrase «which philistine»

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

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.

«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).

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 modernism.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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?].

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.

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.

And though an Alien gag is priceless, recapturing a little of the dada sensibility that gives Brooks's early work its immediacy *, it, like references to the «Star Trek» transporter and the money shot of Planet of the Apes, presumes to lump Star Wars in with hard (er) sci - fi, which seems a rather philistine thing to do.

Digital manga seems ripe for a «philistine» option, where the touch of a button would result in mirrored art and re-rendered lettering (which I'm assuming is all vectors floating above the art, in these translations).