Meaning of middle-brow | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“Characteristically, the middle-brow novel was thus written for and by middle-class women, and could be stigmatised, to use⟳ Adorno's term, as a middle-class, bourgeois activity.”

“'Middle-brow' literature — not to beat⟳ about the bush — is inferior literature adapted to the special tastes and needs of the middle class and of those who consciously or not adopt⟳ the values of that class.”

“David Thorns sets out Suburbia (1973) as a study⟳ in which he aims to demonstrate⟳ that disdain for the 'middle-brow, conformist, respectable, uninspiring members of society who are quite content to potter around in their own⟳ rather limited world' was in fact a view⟳ that was 'divorced from the realities of suburban life'.”

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