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1 The middlebrow is robustly represented in “difficult” cable television shows, some of which, curiously enough, fetishize such classic postwar middlebrow pursuits as sex research and advertising.

2 In simplest terms, Cook’s Illustrated focuses on preparing middlebrow American dishes at home with supermarket ingredients and omits everything glossy cooking magazines have come to be known for.

3 But the case for the Emmys as a collective showcase of the industry’s middlebrow finest is an easy one to make — at least for the medium’s sake.

4 Mr. Nichols became a specialist in middlebrow fare — the sort that film historian and critic David Thomson has described as “really neat, cute, smart ideas that can be grasped in 20 minutes.”

5 That may sound odd, since “middlebrow” is the kind of word rarely said without a sneer.

6 The English writer Tom McCarthy has been waging a one-man war against literary realism, or as he sometimes calls it, “the middlebrow commercial novel,” for coming on 20 years now.

7 She is working on a book about British middlebrow fiction of the 20th century.

8 They come so thick and fast, and tend to be so formulaic and middlebrow that they have ossified into a kind of Oscar-bait genre of their own.

9 The clip was a lot more absurd than we’re used to in late night comedy these days, after decades of middlebrow Jay Leno and the increasing conservatism of David Letterman.

10 Advertisement See More » “Woman in Gold” might be the epitome of middlebrow moviemaking, but it was released far enough outside the scrum that that classification wasn’t worth making.

11 No word better sums up our quixotic hopes for the visual, uniting the lowbrow (video-game headsets, van Gogh warehouses), the highbrow (Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms, James Turrell’s light installations), and the middlebrow (Alfonso Cuarón’s Steadicam jaunts, James Cameron’s 3-D extravaganzas).

12 Whether middlebrow or low, these works reshape Diana to their own needs, borrowing her familiar, eventful yet unknowable story to sell mere gossip as relatable real-life tragedy.

13 In the middle of all this, the middlebrow general-interest magazines have tried to adapt.

在此期间，平凡的大众类杂志尽力转型。

14 There is nothing as profoundly patronising as a middlebrow, supposedly "literary" author on a soapbox.

15 “The basic tone of Times criticism was middlebrow and allrightnik,” he writes.

16 Though some critics disdained Mr. Cahill’s books as middlebrow, many others, including eminent scholars, praised his gift for bringing arcane topics to life.

17 He can be artistically tame and middlebrow, where being bold might work.

18 Neil Simon — probably the most commercially successful playwright ever to walk the Earth — has fallen way out of style, written off as the quintessential mid-century middlebrow.

19 The kind of middlebrow period entertainments with a liberal social message, aimed at an adult audience, that used to win Oscars are now almost a defunct genre.

20 And so often, watching yet another middlebrow, sanitised, awards-bait biopic, I feel that it’s this – not Marvel or DC – that is the umpteenth franchise iteration.

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