Middlebrow

(By the term middlebrow, one seeks to describe a writer who, while disdaining the shoddy and the ephemeral, has built up a following among intelligent readers whose notions he takes care not to challenge or disturb.) ❋ Mantel, Hilary (1989)

The painting, a favorite of editorial cartoonists, he calls "middlebrow." ❋ Mallika Rao (2012)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word middlebrow first appeared in print in 1925, in ❋ Unknown (2008)

Call the Ozarks "middle America" if you have to, but don't call it middlebrow. ❋ Holly Finn (2011)

Writers who would once have been called middlebrow are now assigned, depending solely on their degree of verbal affectation, to either the literary or the genre camp. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shot in a curiously steady fashion, skewing towards so-called middlebrow realism, this was a completely outrageous work in many other respects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A "middlebrow" program "is really hard to pull off in this age," says industry analyst Andrew Tyndall. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's exactly the kind of middlebrow entertainment that attracts people who no longer go to movies - because it seems like the kind of movie they no longer make. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The reason that Time and Newsweek don't cover "middlebrow" culture any more is because now there are plenty of other outlets that cover it better and with more insight ... like People and E! ❋ Unknown (2005)

And in the "middlebrow" category, I suppose, which is better than Lowenbrau, the free single of the week, "Listen Up," by Gossip, is good. ❋ Yendi (2006)

In reality, "middlebrow" is a compliment, since it means a script pitched well above the contemporary average. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)

Some critics have derided Proof as "middlebrow" for showing few of the formulas that obsess the main characters. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)

Roberts again brings out the word "middlebrow" and he is on much stronger ground here but I still do not think it is justified. ❋ Unknown (2005)

On an ideological level, Friedman's new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And I would argue that such a discipline, if eventually realized, would be anything but 'middlebrow'. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Again and again, she takes up the cudgels for the "middlebrow," defining it as "that code word for those who valued the enjoyable, the riveting, the moving and the involving as well as the eternal." ❋ Unknown (1998)

My family [library] is so [middlebrow]: all leather-bound editions of [the Great] Works. Still, I enjoyed looking at the pictures as a kid. ❋ Hysterical Woman (2010)

Middlebrow territory: that vast [gulf] between [the symphony] and [WWE]. ❋ Echost (2021)