Sure, a ragtop 911 is sweet to drive, but it's a philistine's choice, not worthy of a connoisseur.
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Many will think that all of this can only lead to India becoming an iniquitous, philistine and schizoid democracy.
In the mid-1890s Hubbard launched the first of three subscription magazines, The Philistine.
But he manages to confound those who dismiss him as a free-market philistine.
But Hubbard's biggest commercial success was an essay that first appeared in the March 1899 issue of the The Philistine.
While you have to be a pretty rabid pet-lover to commission such works, you don't necessarily have to be a philistine.
According to legend, Samson was of the Dan tribe of Israelites, born near where the Israelite, Philistine and Canaanite borders met.
Mostly Mr Cork keeps his critical ire for philistine readers, though the complaints diminish as the edgy art of the 1970s and early 1980s later becomes mainstream.
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.
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.
"Michael Gove is sport-phobic, even philistine, " she alleged.
Of course, Mr Letwin and Mr Cameron, both old Etonians, may simply be attempting to put some clear blue water between themselves and the more populist - or wilfully philistine depending on your point of view - elements on Labour's front bench.
It was puzzling to watch the Israelites and Philistines mingle onstage (the supposedly opposing groups were identifiable through costume designer Gideon Davey's fezzes, black hats and such), and the Philistine villain Joabel seemed to have his own homoerotic reason for making trouble for David.
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