Sure, a ragtop 911 is sweet to drive, but it's a philistine's choice, not worthy of a connoisseur.

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While you have to be a pretty rabid pet-lover to commission such works, you don't necessarily have to be a philistine.

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To deny the validity of the droit de suite is not to be a philistine: arguably, it is more philistine to equate the value of a work of art with its price.

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Mr Smith is transparently not a philistine.

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It marks you as a football philistine.

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But he manages to confound those who dismiss him as a free-market philistine.

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Samson seeks a wife among the Philistine people and is on his way to secure the marriage when he meets the lion and kills it with his bare hands.

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