| 单词 | middlebrowism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈmiddlebrowism ˈmiddlebrowism n. the condition or state of being middlebrow; a social or cultural manifestation of middlebrow thought. ΚΠ 1955 R. Chase in Commentary July 59/1 Three questions confront us when we hear the plea for a cultural middlebrowism in America. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 July 737/4 What makes the middlebrowism of Galsworthy or Wells so arid. 1993 Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 25/8 England has come to suffer from an anti-achievement ethos in both the arts and the sciences: a cosy middle-browism in the humanities,..and a retreat from hard science. 1999 Independent on Sunday 3 Jan. (Culture section) 8/2 He..helped out with Ford's transatlantic review (capital letters evidently signalled bourgeois complacency and middle-browism). < as lemmas |
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