middle ages
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Not long ago, these progenitors of virtually all modern musical theater were widely considered dull, stodgy middlebrows.
From New York Times • May 10, 2018
This may suggest an all-too-familiar Broadway recipe for flattering middlebrows into feeling highbrow, allowing audience members to signal their sophistication with knowing laughs at intellectual references.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2010
When the lectures were repeated on the Home Service for 3,000,000 listeners, the middlebrows liked them too.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time, he has tackled a suitably lofty subject, aimed at satisfying snobs and middlebrows alike.
From Time Magazine Archive
More middlebrows than highbrows have applauded Viereck's efforts, but Terror and Decorum, his first book of more-or-less straightforward verse, won him a Pulitzer Prize last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
