middlebrow in English
noun
1
a person who is capable of or enjoys only a moderate degree of intellectual effort.
Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy.
adjective
1
(of art or literature or a system of thought) demanding or involving only a moderate degree of intellectual application, typically as a result of not deviating from convention.
middlebrow fiction
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1. 16 She has a more middlebrow talent than his, and therefore seems less inclined toward introspection and reiteration.
2. For more on the Bmoc, see Janice Radway, "The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Class Fracture, and Cultural Authority," South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (fall 1990): 703-36; Radway, "The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader," in Reading in America: Literature and Social History, Cathy N.