middlebrow

• Britain's mainstream literary establishment reacted with the sort of horror that middlebrow, PBS-supporting Americans might evince at the discovery that MTV's The Real World had been introduced into the fourth grade Civics curriculum. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• My tastes run the gamut from lowbrow to middlebrow, with a smattering of whackjob. —  communicatrix
• These two films may have been controlled more by their directors and their writers than by their studios, but they're still the kind of middlebrow pictures that the Academy used to nominate in the bad old studio-dominated days-the contemporary equivalents of "Judgment at Nuremburg" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" —  The New Yorker
• Dawkins in particular was attacked for writing The God Delusion as a "middlebrow" book. —  The Corner
• On an ideological level, Friedman's new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. —  New York Press

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