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• n  a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

• The century of the common man means a century of sterile and tyrannic philistinism, whether it be a philistinism of right or of left, of Colonel Blimp or of Comrade Blimp.
• The philistinism and bullying seem merely to have given him a sense of victimhood.
• The charge of philistinism is slightly overdrawn.

• materialism