Sentence examples for mainstream figure from inspiring English sources

To the extent that Gorsuch said anything of substance at his hearing, he put himself across as a mainstream figure.

"But this is a mainstream figure who was a bosom buddy and close confidante of Thabo Mbeki.

In Cambridge, all this made Summers "an unabashedly mainstream figure in a highly progressive culture," as James Traub wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 2003.

But mainstream culture will struggle to capture him, because Bowie managed to become an enduring mainstream figure without ever being mainstream.

They hope that a mainstream figure such as Gove will help them reach out in the referendum to middle ground undecided voters even if the justice secretary eases the blow for Cameron by not taking a high profile campaigning role.

To get a sense of how much it matters when people like Mr. Limbaugh talk like this, bear in mind that he's an utterly mainstream figure within the Republican Party; bear in mind, too, that unless something changes the political dynamics, Republicans will soon control at least one house of Congress.

More mainstream figures were scarcely less strident.

Mainstream figures such as Paul Krugman and Greg Mankiw have commanded large online audiences for years, audiences which include many of their peers.

The presenters tended to avoid obvious mainstream figures — there was nothing on Elvis, the Beatles, or the Rolling Stones — focusing, instead, on the margins and subtexts of pop history.

Hate-mongering against immigrants and minorities has gone mainstream; figures foaming at the mouth with loathing and malice are ubiquitous on old and new media alike.

In recent years, comparatively mainstream figures such as MPs David Lammy and Adam Afriyie have seen members of their families become the subject of irrelevant personal stories.