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Example sentences for: philistine

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Now I'm a philistine who's been to Italy.
Before I went there, I was a philistine.
This raises the troubling question: Is Chatterbox too much of a philistine to be scared by the tonier, more abstract terrors served up in The Blair Witch Project ?
Subscribers to Slate on Paper who wish to receive a culture-free edition, with all the reviews and other artsy-fartsy stuff sliced out at no extra charge, can e-mail us at philistine@slate.com, and we'll be happy to oblige.
There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).