Sentence examples for mainstream reader from inspiring English sources

This weekend, as many head to movie theatres to see Peter Jackson's adaptation of "The Hobbit," it's easy to forget that there was a time when Tolkien's work was largely confined to the ranks of children's literature and cult fiction, and that it was Auden and others like him who helped legitimize Tolkien for today's mainstream reader.

Mainstream readers more or less fled, screaming.

To mainstream readers, this argument may seem arcane.

That a book about cruising has been so welcomed by mainstream readers and critics, and featured on best of lists is pretty stunning.

"They became about furniture or politics... dangerously close to Wallpaper or Monocle, which are brilliant at what they do but are not what mainstream readers want.

Heterosexual writers no longer omit gay characters from their universes; authors formerly categorized as gay writers are now reaching mainstream readers.

Designers and editors rallied to Ms. McEvoy's defense while acknowledging that her mix of high fashion and upper-crust personalities did not always succeed with mainstream readers.

By 1974, a writer for The Florida Times-Union was calling Joe Assi's signature desert rider an "Arabic club sandwich" in an effort to explain it to mainstream readers.

While these companies and others, like Qiosk, have made inroads with publishers and some consumers, they still have a long way to go to attract mainstream readers, said Vin Crosbie, managing partner of Digital Deliverance, an electronic publishing consulting concern.

By the time Mr. Koontz leads his book through a black hole, a time warp, a showdown in a church sacristy and a New Age approach to devil worship, he will surely have lost some mainstream readers along the way.

This, he understands, is a fraught question for many writers, who for decades have been told "if you write books centred on queer lives, where the gay guy isn't just one strand, or a friend, then there are straight people for mainstream readers to identify with – but if a book really is centred on gay lives, you'll be in this gay ghetto".