What's the difference between philistinism and unculture?

Philistinism


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But then, if centuries of privileged breeding and education produce dunderheads and philistines, that proves talent is genetically random, not inherited.
  • (2) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
  • (3) They said it was suicide and, yes, Abbas had had these thoughts in Fara' Philistine – we used that as leverage to push William Hague into action – but there is no way he would have done that.
  • (4) Yet there is no chance of either main party delivering the coup de grace, given the furious outcry and accusations of philistinism that would ensue.
  • (5) A lament for the failed ideals of a group of 1960s Cambridge graduates who all too quickly swap their literary dreams for coffee table books and hack journalism, the play was an elegiac threnody for soiled friendship and a descent from intellectual rigour and seriousness to philistinism.
  • (6) But saying anything is fine if it sells well seems philistine.
  • (7) In this two-hour near-monologue Bates played the fallen actor-hero forever ranting about being forced to work on tiny stages for lousy wages in front of philistines.
  • (8) Her review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, in Harper's magazine, accuses him of, among other things, philistinism: "He has turned the full force of his intellect against religion, and all his verbal skills as well, and his humane learning, too, which is capacious enough to include some deeply minor poetry."
  • (9) Unlike many disputes between labels and artists, the argument between Berry Gordy Jr and his brother-in-law Marvin Gaye over What's Going On doesn't easily reduce to philistine versus visionary.
  • (10) It's her philistinism, her ignorance, and the way she revels in her ignorance.
  • (11) (10) Including the Rich Kids, Hot Club, Dead Men Walking, the Flying Padovanis, Slinky Vagabond, the Mavericks, the Philistines and, most recently, International Swingers .
  • (12) "Proper" here works as a strategy to avoid seeming privileged, while at the same time tuning in cunningly to anti-intellectual prejudice (what is "proper" is not over-thought) – all as Cameron conducts, like some kind of over-moisturised Visigoth, his philistine economic campaign against the BBC, universities ("proper education"), and the National Health Service ("proper healthcare").
  • (13) But the self-congratulatory philistinism of this year's panel has done a disservice to the writers they selected, the writers they didn't, and the readers who are thought to be so superficial that all you need to do is convince them that a book will "zip along" faster than an episode of Downton .
  • (14) Now Nicolas Sarkozy wants to answer the critics who call him a cultural philistine by plunging into his new love for architecture and creating a Greater Paris that would be world's most environmentally friendly and boldly designed metropolis.
  • (15) You are not only about to make philistines of yourselves, but philistines of us all."
  • (16) The whipping he received over The Corrections was his first experience of being publicly reviled, and he blames it on the prevailing mood of philistinism.
  • (17) Pellerin reflects the general trend across an increasingly philistine west, but it’s not the philistinism that I’m so much worried about.
  • (18) But what he called "the fight against bad English" is too often understood, thanks to the perversities of his own example, as a philistine and joyless campaign in favour of that shibboleth of dull pedants "plain English".
  • (19) Gambling away his savings, Grant – a "clever bloke" who thinks he can only be happy in English exile – becomes trapped among the kind of chauvinistic, philistine drunkards he affects to despise, yet slowly he begins to emulate them.
  • (20) MK’s defenders argue that such philistinism threatens a modern masterpiece which deserves to be recognised as a world heritage site.

Unculture


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of culture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cultured and uncultured germs were analysed for dry weight (D), ash weight (A), Ca, Mg and P content.
  • (2) The PCR was used to detect M. tuberculosis DNA sequences in uncultured clinical specimens.
  • (3) This method of amplification of 16S rDNA-gene fragments was used to identify a novel, uncultured pathogen and opens new perspectives for other infectious diseases of unknown cause.
  • (4) The results demonstrate a consistently significant increase in ganglioside GD3 in uncultured, patient-derived T-cell ALL lymphoblasts when compared to non-T-cell ALL and normal lymphoid tissue.
  • (5) The 4 selected monoclonal antibodies (OKB2, IOB2, IOT5a, IOB3) detected the corresponding surface antigens in various developing renal structures present in uncultured explants.
  • (6) A retrospective blind analysis of coded uncultured amniotic fluid samples correctly detected four trisomy 21 cases out of 49 samples.
  • (7) We illustrate the use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for analysis of ERBB2 oncogene copy number, the level of amplification (here defined as the ratio of ERBB2 copy number to copy number of chromosome 17 centromeres), and the distribution of amplified genes in breast cancer cell lines and uncultured primary breast carcinomas.
  • (8) Established MST were specifically eliminated by spleen cells immune to MST after culture with MSTMit, but not by spleen cells immune to MST without further culture nor by cultured or uncultured BC5 immune spleen cells and control spleen cells.
  • (9) The morphological, chromosomal, immunophenotypic and molecular biologic characteristics of fresh uncultured tumor cells from the patient and tumor cells grown in culture and in athymic nude mice were very similar.
  • (10) Nonproducer cell lines contained single copies of defective BLV proviral genomes with the same integration profiles as the uncultured cells.
  • (11) Analysis of uncultured chorionic villus material from a woman at risk of fetus with sulfite oxidase deficiency revealed a deficiency of sulfite oxidase.
  • (12) Results indicate that A. salmonicida does not enter an unculturable dormant state.
  • (13) After the freedom Wheldon had given him, he was not best pleased by the relatively uncultured suits he found on visits to the west coast.
  • (14) The micronucleus test was also performed, for the first time in lymphocytes by the cytokinesis-block method, and in uncultured cells of the oral cavity and hair root.
  • (15) Hexosaminidase activity was determined in cultured and uncultured amniotic fluid cells taken from seven pregnant women who had previously given birth to infants with Tay-Sachs disease.
  • (16) Chronic islet rejection differs from acute rejection of uncultured allogeneic islets.
  • (17) Whereas to hate literature is to be deemed uncultured, it is cool to hate maths and fine to throw one's hands in the air when asked to do a simple sum.
  • (18) Optimal conditions for beta-galactosidase activity were established with an uncultured conjunctival biopsy from a normal cat.
  • (19) These bone marrow cells showed a pronounced increase in the mitotic index (5- to 50-fold) as compared to unstimulated cultures, and a greater than 100-fold increase as compared to fresh, uncultured bone marrow cells.
  • (20) This resulted in eight groups of explants (control, Ca, Mg, P, CaMg, CaP, PMg and CaMgP) and their eight uncultured contralateral groups.

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