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 Translation for 'philistine' from English to French
ADJ1   Philistine | more Philistine | most Philistine
ADJ2   philistine | more philistine | most philistine
NOUN1   a Philistine | Philistines
NOUN2   a philistine | philistines
SYNO anti-intellectual | lowbrow | philistine
béotien {adj}philistine [attitude]
béotien {m}philistine [attitude]
béotienne {f}philistine [attitude] [female]
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Usage Examples English
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), the founder of Revisionist Zionism wrote a 1926 novel in Russian (English translation in 1930), "Samson" in which the author makes Samson an assimilated Jew attracted by the surrounding, more sophisticated (and un-philistine) Philistine culture.
  • Art critics were, in turn, highly critical of Wolfe's book, arguing that he was a philistine who knew nothing of what he wrote.
  • Expatriate American artist (Carradine) re-ignites his love for his former wife (Linda Fiorentino), despite her marriage to a sinister, philistine art collector played by John Lone.
  • No philistine, he chose a hyberbolic curve for the outline for stylistic reasons.
  • Myers' critics call him a philistine and an advocate for low-brow literature, and suggest that his criteria for good literature implicitly define it as writing that is simple enough to require little effort to read.

  • In 1848, a two-year pedagogical class was opened at the institute for the training of teachers, and the philistine department was transformed into the St.
  • ... Chereda), analyzed "Anna on the Neck" and "The House with the Mezzanine" along the lines of his own conception according to which Chekhov and Dostoyevsky were the masters of paeans to the 'philistine's happiness'.
  • The film, created by the eponymous vaudeville of Anton Chekhov, the stories of "The Wedding with General", "Before the wedding", the novel in two parts of the "Marriage of convenience" skit "Bride and papa" is a caustic satire on the mores of the middle class philistine pre-revolutionary Russia.
  • Today in German "Banause" is used to mean an uncouth person indifferent to high culture, like English philistine.
  • Kohut embodies "the eponymous neo-Nazi 'hero,' a Viennese philistine and petit bourgeois par excellence borne of dull racism."

  • Shipai Village, located to the east of Canton in the southern coastal area of the country, had developed a suburban folk culture that could find the shadow of philistine culture influenced by western civilization.
  • These range from his sister, Joan (Maria Miles) - who, freed from dependency on her philistine of a lover, will be able to attend art school - to the depressive paying guest Frankie (an excellent Samantha Holland), who will be able to marry Clive and get rid of the well-meaning but boring Brian (Gregory Floy) with his stuffy old colonial slang ("feeling pretty bobbish, thanks") and his formulaic generosity.
  • Thomas Carlyle often wrote of gigs and "gigmanity" as a sign of classist materialism; Arnold recognized Carlyle's use of the term as being synonymous with philistine.
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