11. But he criticized the use of the press " in the pursuit of mediocrity and philistinism ." 12. Opponents of bilingual education have on their side a visceral philistinism seasoned with a dash of resurgent'90s racism. 13. Alan Woods has called it " a very healthy antidote to the superficial and pretentious philistinism of Isaac Deutscher ." 14. He despises the beautiful Big Zoe because of her philistinism , her love for beautiful things and for her selfishness. 15. He feels unfulfilled writing endless propaganda doggerel, and the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State make him restive. 16. The penny-pinching philistinism of the Leipzig town council in the 1730s shouldn't reduce these great works to Bach Lite. 17. Germans are fond of complaining about the philistinism of cultural politicians, and the situation has provided plenty of fuel for their arguments. 18. His philistinism , by which I mean his complete unconcern for the highest goals of any society, is so complete it is fascinating. 19. The rest of the poem is essentially a defense of Pound, who, like Capaneus, was fighting against the unsurmountable flood of philistinism . 20. The newspaper Sovetskaia Rossiia ( Soviet Russia ) attacked Vysotsky for offering Philistinism , vulgarity, and immorality under the guise of art .
