Sentence examples for mainstream draw from inspiring English sources

The very things that made the film bankable -- the middlebrow appeal of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the mainstream draw of Madonna -- proved a liability at Oscar time, when what the members of the Academy wanted was culture.

(And, bizarrely, several day trips to Stone Henge. Which isn't exactly close to London — but is apparently a mainstream draw for U.K. visitors).

Houston Maritime Museum, Aug. 21, 7 p.m., lorensteffy.com WICHITA FALLS Easy Riders The sport of rodeo has gone mainstream, drawing competitors who may not have grown up on a ranch but have the drive to ride livestock for prize money.

Nonetheless, mainstream drawing has come a long way since the 1970's, when it was regularly pushed to extremes of scale, self-reference and reduction by artists like Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Morris and Alighiero e Boetti.

Rock, on the other hand, has mainstream drawing power.

Rock does have some mainstream drawing power — possibly.

Both of these ideas paint Obama as "other" and outside the mainstream, drawing their potency from fears about Black people gaining power.

No longer part of the counterculture, the city's clubs have become a mainstream attraction in Berlin, drawing easyJet planeloads of young people from around Europe and beyond.

As mainstream parties draw the battle lines on cutting the budget deficit, Barber said choosing spending cuts over effective investment to hasten recovery was "pure economic masochism".

Rather, he says, he is drawn — and audiences who think of themselves as outside the mainstream are drawn — to stories of outsiders.

Some Came Running (1958) was mainstream entertainment, drawn from James Jones's massive novel.