Sentence examples for serious mainstream from inspiring English sources

Between those poles was a hole where the serious mainstream movies used to be.

In 2003, the evolution of the X Games into a serious, mainstream event continued.

Leap Motion is the first serious mainstream contender for a high fidelity gesture peripheral.

But his friends have always insisted that his comic persona disguises a clever politician with serious, mainstream ambitions.

Not only could "serious" mainstream novelists aim at best-sellerdom, but even hacks were presumed to covet respectability.

Not that he must: nobody set a rule that serious mainstream jazz musicians have to make music that comes from deep within and goes over most people's heads.

"Elastic" is a new album built of organ grooves with complicated jazz harmonies and a real turnaround from the serious-mainstream quartet music of his last few records.

It's highly interactive, serious-mainstream jazz, with great rhythm-section ideas about bending and warping the music, and Mr. Osby's spotless high-wire improvisations on top.

The writers he followed were serious but mainstream, something that is apparent from the collections he made of his book reviews — "Classics and Commercials" (1950), "The Shores of Light" (1952), and "The Bit Between My Teeth" (1965).

Hudak is also the author of Marijuana: A Short History, which offers a unique, up-to-date profile of how cannabis emerged from the shadows of counterculture and illegality to become a serious, even mainstream, public policy issue and source of legal revenue for both businesses and governments.

But we can't forget all the more serious or mainstream news events that occurred this year, from the riots in Egypt and the OWS movement, to the Royal Wedding and the explosion of Charlie Sheen to the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Steve Jobs.