middle-browism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists."
- "As these emulations might suggest, this broad jazz-with-strings repertory is closely related to midcentury trends in American "middle-browism," a connection especially prominent in this music's overriding glorified entertainment aesthetic and its often presumed dilutions of "higher" musical traditions."
- "In the lecture, Briggs warned of the dangers of what Macdonald called 'middle-browism', and elsewhere expressed his concern that the acquisitive society was not only creating passive work but also passive leisure, 'a parody of social democracy'."