Example sentences for: middlebrow

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

  • Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."

  • I embrace my middle-aged, middlebrow destiny, regularly dozing off around 9:30 in front of a Merchant-Ivory movie on public television.

  • You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.

  • Encyclopedias, after all, are middlebrow, bourgeois books that tend, in the end, not to promote intellectual inquiry on the part of the people who use them but rather to stifle it.

  • Were he alive, Dwight Macdonald, archenemy of all things low-and middlebrow, would be rubbing his hands with malicious glee.


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