How To Use Middlebrow In A Sentence
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Whenever you hear or read a snotty European presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "uncultured", "unintellectual" and "poor in math" because, unlike his peers, they are not into equation drills and the constructions middlebrow people call "high culture".
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So middlebrows appointed themselves as the defenders of popular taste against the authoritarian edicts of highbrow moral crusaders.
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In the October Harper's, Ben Marcus offers a lengthy state-of-the-novel essay, subtly titled Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It: A Correction, in which he spends 13 pages beating up Jonathan Franzen -- snubber of Oprah and William Gaddis alike -- and the middlebrow fiction establishment he represents.
The State of the State of the Novel
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Ivory, once an insufferable middlebrow pedant, has officially become a walking anachronism - and I, for one, am damn grateful.
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It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance.
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We are, for better and worse, middle class and middlebrow right down to our bones.
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It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
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These are sometimes referred to as romantic novels, but actually, as I understand it, they were more in the nature of middlebrow novels about middle-class family life.
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It's all beautifully acted, but I didn't care about Susan and John and their tremulous relationship, laden with supercilious, middlebrow significance.
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It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
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No thoughtful reader today would dismiss them as predominantly insipid or expressing nothing beyond a contemporary middlebrow understanding.
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Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow.
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In Chinas modernization drive, the misunderstanding on "Middlebrow" is not beneficial to the understanding and the promotion of the core ideology of Chinas traditional culture.
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I wish that the middlebrow worshippers of the simple would read the nursery rhymes in the light of their original meaning!
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I can understand that this makes good business sense, but c'mon, guys, do we have to be this middlebrow?
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Her output in the 1990s was a cataract of middlebrow — rewrites and remakes, first of the Father of the Bride movies, and then The Parent Trap (for which she elicited a brilliant, schizogonic performance from the young Lindsay Lohan).
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To inherit and develop the middlebrow that is important for construct the Harmonious society and economy and science.
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I can understand that this makes good business sense, but c'mon, guys, do we have to be this middlebrow?
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According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities.
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Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy.
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Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
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I know of no rational argument which convinces me that plays that are enjoyed and discussed by intellectuals are any better than plays which entertain a middlebrow audience.
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They do not like things that the vast middle class, middlebrow population likes.
