elevator music

Example Sentences

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It is the elevator music, the Muzak, of potato dishes.

From Salon • May 9, 2024

Which is why we should stop asking why the message is still allowed to happen and start asking when it became distilled down to constitutional elevator music.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2023

The sheer familiarity of Bacharach's music meant the cleverness of much of it was sometimes overlooked: it was dismissed as "elevator music" or "easy listening".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2023

Show up to watch the children, even if one of the kids has a concussion and needs everyone to lie in the dark on the floor in sleeping bags, listening to quiet elevator music.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

Stupid elevator music floats from the tinny airport speakers.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper