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Six example sentences with philistine, each labelled with its topic.
He called himself a philistine, bought the largest canvas in the gallery, and hung it above a television.
Art
The comedy casts the studio boss as a philistine who has never finished a book and green lights only sequels.
Movies
Being called a philistine by the design team stung enough that he sat through every talk in the museum series.
Business
He called anyone who left before the encore a philistine, then admitted he had never sat through an opera.
Music
The critic labelled the mayor a philistine for closing the library, and the label stuck for the rest of the term.
Literature
Branded a philistine for cutting the arts budget, the councillor answered by reading a poem into the record.
Politics
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