Uncultured sorts

Usage examples of philistines.

Or, handing him over to the police of the Philistines, you may put it, that a habit of assorting spices will render an earnest simplicity distasteful.

A considerable part of his letters was always occupied with lamentation over the cursed fate that bound him to the Philistines, though he took care to repeat that this was the result of his own choice, and that he blamed no one--unless it were his gross-minded step-father, who had driven him to such an alternative.

Secondly, the bourgeois, whom he called philistines, the humbly living, contented, narrow-minded, timid, whom he did not hate as much as he despised them with fervid scorn.

I say it, I, old hermit among the philistines, and my peace rests upon this knowledge.

The type of men which my father called philistines has this common characteristic, that for all wonders and mysteries they forthwith find a convenient explanation.

Nature as much as they do, to bring all that is knowable into her domain and yet to judge of some of her products, as let us say: baboons, tyrants, grand inquisitors, drunkards, philistines, modern buildings and bad verses, in an ethically and aesthetically disapproving sense and, moreover, to call this opinion natural.