middle-of-the-road

[ US /ˈmɪdəɫəvθəˌɹɔd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative
  2. not extreme, especially in political views
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How To Use middle-of-the-road In A Sentence

  • But in 1989, those middle-of-the-road rumblings dramatically changed lanes, as a squeaky clean princess met a notorious bad boy.
  • In fact, it had all the hallmarks of reasonably interesting, middle-of-the-road, weekday morning commercial radio, but it rapidly turned into something resembling a spectacle.
  • It's a solid middle-of-the-road release that has some good performances from unknown actors.
  • No matter how middle-of-the-road the ballad, Keys will plaster it with showy arpeggios, rococo trills and glissandos, an approach that brings to mind the unlovely image of Dido jamming with Richard Clayderman.
  • Having conceded so much to the opposition, he has to work hard to secure a middle-of-the-road position - to avoid drifting either to the Platonist right or to the pragmatist left.
  • The album is mainly middle-of-the-road reggae, heavy on drum and bass, and chock-full of melody lines that grab you right away and sound better with each listen.
  • The 'middle-of-the-road' statist cannot logically say that there are 'many forms' of unjustified coercion.
  • Mr. Wildhorn's tunes sound like half-remembered middle-of-the-road AM-radio ballads from the 1970s, touched up with banjo and dobro to give them a theme-park period feel. Wheel This Barrow Out of Town
  • Their first album was quite good, but the second was very middle-of-the-road stuff.
  • Not surprising, after all; he'd designed the New Luddites to have a lot of middle-of-the-road appeal. T2©: RISING STORM
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