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In some senses, middlebrow is marked as derogatory. Watch for register when choosing this word.
middlebrow
adj 1noun 1
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4ADJ.
judgmental, longer, many
VERB + MIDDLEBROW
show
MIDDLEBROW + NOUN
arbiter, dramas, hig, period
PREP.
in, in
Definitions
adj
1
Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass culture?
As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived. However dark the plot becomes, the sun keeps shining brightly through the trees.
noun
1
A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between.
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What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of hig
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As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived. However dark the plot becomes, the s
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In the late ’60s and early ’70s, as independent films were diversifying their outlook and shaking off the formulas of Hollywood storytelling, Broadway boulevard comedies like “Last of the Red Hot Love
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Calling this, or really any, TV show middlebrow is judgmental in nature.
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