Example sentences for: lowbrow

How can you use “lowbrow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Huntington crosses the line so easily as to make you wonder: How different, really, are the lowbrow and highbrow expressions of the vogue for tribalism?

  • Rockwell's transformation from lowbrow illustrator to classic American artist is now complete: A documentary on his life and works has aired on public television, a traveling exhibition of his work is making stops at Washington's Corcoran and New York's Guggenheim and, what's more, his work is being tentatively embraced by postmodern critics.

  • I was holding off buying your Gary Coleman gift after reading in USA Today that Drew Barrymore's estranged mother, Jaid, also has a Web site on which she is auctioning off several collections of Drew's baby clothes (including an undershirt decorated with baby chicks ). OK, yes, this seems like a shockingly lowbrow, sociopathically self-serving, egomaniacal betrayal and perversion of the mother-daughter bond until after you hear how touchingly Jaid explains it: "Drew is such a special amazing magical person" she says," that I decided to put some of her things up on the Web site to allow people to be a part of her life."

  • The mass-marketing of well-designed consumer products collapses the distinction between highbrow and lowbrow.

  • Jack (Mike Nichols) on highbrow vs. lowbrow (22 seconds) :


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