The phrase "mainstream image" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a widely-accepted view of something based on popular opinion. For example, "According to the mainstream image, people from this country are very polite."
Brief discussion From the above works, it was observed that although OCT imaging is increasingly prevalent, DFP is still the mainstream image modality for AMD detection and screening.
This Tea Party wanted to project a mainstream image of a group that is anything but.
What is to be said, then, about the Bayview-Hunters Point, a historically working class, African American neighborhood that has not traditionally figured into the mainstream image of San Francisco?
For all Ms. Le Pen's efforts to project a mainstream image for the National Front and break with its racist past, historians point out that an anti-immigrant stance was the party's backbone from its origins in the early 1970s.
The challenge at this point was to find an acceptably romantic, mainstream image for Crosby, who was still an unruly young jazz singer, not averse to taking a drink and with personal habits and musical tastes that might not have pleased middle America.
To place a Muslim woman, who does not even represent the mainstream image of a Muslim in America, in the hands of a man who represents an institution responsible for the terror and agony of many Muslims in the world (not only in Iraq) is not simply insensitive, but disturbing.
One of the aims of the project is also to challenge "familiar mainstream images that depict the city solely as a place of conflict and destruction". Aerial view of Hamar-Weine (old city), 1923.
But do remember not to "knock her up lol", wrote a Daily Mirror reader, commenting under a story about (perfectly mainstream) images of the actress being posted on porn sites – noting helpfully that "not every girl has to be able to do prim and proper to be worth it".
In mainstream images of physical perfection, you would never see a woman with big shoulders; you would only see a man who had waxed his chest in a special interest publication; you would never see a woman with quads that meant anything; you would rarely see a guy as wiry as Bradley Wiggins.
At some point in the past few decades, popular perception began to equate liberalism with effete enablers while conservatism burst from the cultural periphery of the Goldwater era, powered by mainstream images of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and all-American testosterone, equal parts responsibility, fortitude and discipline.
While we know this isn't true, it is unfortunately rare to see mainstream images of black queerness based on acceptance and tolerance.
