middlebrow

/mid-l-brou/US // ˈmɪd lˌbraʊ //UK // (ˈmɪdəlˌbraʊ) derogatory //

中产阶级,中产阶层,中庸之道,中间派

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Informal.
- : a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.

Which is a shame, because sometimes a mild, witty, middlebrow comedy that isn’t trying too hard to be virtuous or subversive or timely really hits the spot.
Salinger retooled it, retitled it "Paula," and sold it to Stag, a middlebrow publication for men.
And anyway, he continues, those gifts have been “thoroughly incorporated into American upper-middlebrow culture.”
Or does middlebrow entertainment become appealing only when it has aged into a minority taste?
In the book, his scope includes both the high- and middlebrow.
The absurdly successful Gwyn Barry is a hilarious take on middlebrow, narcissistic celebrity authors.