Lexicographical Neighbors of Philistinisms
Literary usage of Philistinisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"We may be less happy—on the same page and the next—with a repetition of philistinisms
against Fouque' and the Middle Ages, about there being "nothing worth ..."
2. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"Compare with these philistinisms the words of another musical expert, who is at
the same time a man of feeling — Anton Seidl: — "Every time that the Dragon ..."
3. The Brontës in Ireland: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction by William Wright (1893)
"... philistinisms. There was nothing unusual in such treatment of articles in
those days. The ablest writers of the time were obliged to submit to such ..."
4. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"Then, too, our ears are perpetually being pained and deafened by the din of the
two opposing philistinisms, — science and orthodoxy, — both equally vulgar ..."
5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1876)
"Then, too, our ears are perpetually being pained and deafened by the din of the
two opposing philistinisms—science and orthodoxy —both equally vulgar, ..."
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