Calling this, or really any, TV show middlebrow is judgmental in nature.
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Middlebrow
Synonyms for "middlebrow" (25 found)
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Translations
9 translations across 3 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 中庸之辈 adj (neither highbrow or lowbrow)
German
3 entries- mittelmäßig adj (neither highbrow or lowbrow)
- mäßig adj (neither highbrow or lowbrow)
- Durchschnittsmensch noun (person or thing neither highbrow or lowbrow)
Polish
4 entries- niewyszukany adj (neither highbrow or lowbrow)
- pospolity adj (neither highbrow or lowbrow)
- przeciętny adj (neither highbrow or lowbrow)
- przeciętniaczka noun (person or thing neither highbrow or lowbrow)
Sample sentences
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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 high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass culture?
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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 sun keeps shining brightly through the trees.
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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 Lovers” and “California Suite” — tales of the befuddled nouveau riche in a new world — began to look mass-produced and middlebrow.
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