barbarianism

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  1. barbarism
  2. philistinism
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  • The bombs that Zinn and other US and British soldiers used also marked a new era of barbarism during wartime.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout the movie, Odysseus is tortured by flashbacks to that attack’s barbarism and chaos.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
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  • Fascism lives in the upside-down; professional gaslighting features heavily amongst its weaponry, along with the blinking philistinism of the soulless.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 June 2026
  • Despite such official philistinism, Proust had already left an enduring mark on Irish letters and would remain a source of literary inspiration for the nation’s writers into the twenty-first century.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
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