Example sentences for: middlebrow

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

  • However, the Times says many Netscape programmers may be reluctant to work for AOL because of its "middlebrow" (why not "middlebrowser"?)

  • What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.

  • Irksome, middlebrow, replete with weird choices and intellectual pretention--who cares?

  • Of course, there's nothing wrong with middlebrow theater if done well.

  • In the years since, Stoppard has readily indulged himself with hack work ( The Russia House ), middlebrow entertainments ( Empire of the Sun ), and pre- Shakespeare in Love house calls as a script doctor ( Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ). Andrew Lloyd Webber and Steven Spielberg recently commissioned a Cats screenplay from Stoppard.


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