Sentence examples for standards of mainstream from inspiring English sources

But it is, by the standards of mainstream American theater, indirect and subversively, discomfitingly thought-provoking.

The subjects are the uncertainty and unkindness of life; their treatment is always, by the standards of mainstream theater, bafflingly arcane.

Such was the power of Kael's voluminous writing about movies that she transformed the sensibility and standards of mainstream pop culture criticism in America -- mostly for the better, despite her bullying personality (in print and in life), her sloppy professional ethics and her at times careerist escapades in self-dramatizing contrarianism.

The combined mystique of Lincoln and Day-Lewis – a dual gold-standard of mainstream quality – may be impossible to resist.

But is it fair to hold a new art form up to such demanding standards of broad mainstream resonance?

Meanwhile, the supporting cast of writers behind Legend and Mills has been slimmed to a mere 12, which by the standards of modern mainstream R&B albums counts as very much a skeleton staff.

Last September, during a lecture at Southern Methodist University, a distinguished journalist brought down the house when he deplored the debased standards of the mainstream news media, charging that they were "all becoming tabloids".

8. Phyllis Rooney has argued that compared with other recently developed approaches that challenge some of the standard assumptions of mainstream epistemology, feminist epistemology suffers a greater degree of marginalization from what she calls "epistemology proper"(Rooney 2011).

Notwithstanding the complaints of President Clinton's defenders about shifting standards of privacy, the mainstream press has never been quick to carry information about politicians' personal conduct unless that information issued from official sources or seemed related to officeholders' fulfilling of their public obligations.

There was more blogging on the Web and talking on the radio, but Mehlman's ambiguous reply did not meet the standards of news for mainstream journalists who neither noticed nor wrote about it.

Garcia's overall project, it seems to me, is a critique of globalised consumer culture and of mainstream standards of what counts as acceptable artistic representation, although others have commented through the years (Accidens has been in his repertory since 2005) about the ethics of Garcia's choice to make an aesthetic point via the suffering of living creatures.