middle-brow

Example Sentences

• "Characteristically, the middle-brow novel was thus written for and by middle-class women, and could be stigmatised, to use Adorno's term, as a middle-class, bourgeois activity."
• "'Middle-brow' literature — not to beat about the bush — is inferior literature adapted to the special tastes and needs of the middle class and of those who consciously or not adopt the values of that class."
• "David Thorns sets out Suburbia (1973) as a study in which he aims to demonstrate that disdain for the 'middle-brow, conformist, respectable, uninspiring members of society who are quite content to potter around in their own rather limited world' was in fact a view that was 'divorced from the realities of suburban life'."
• "The high-brow would like to get rid of the middle-brow, but the middle-brow outnumbers him."
• "The criticism of society which proceeds from this direction is self-undermined, for it is full of the images, the rhythms, the poses, the easy values of the successful midle layer, the middle competence, the middle-brow."
• "However, most cultural intermediaries, those in charge of television and radio schedules and newspapers and magazines, are middle-brows, and yet have considerable means at their disposal."