Sentence examples for straddling the mainstream from inspiring English sources

Straddling the mainstream and the more aesthetically refined seems a good fit for Franz Ferdinand.

The same goes for Care Bears on Fire, who straddle the mainstream and D.I.Y. worlds, proving that they're not that far apart.

As a jazz pianist, pop singer and actor, Mr. Connick has managed to straddle the mainstream without quite giving himself up to it.

Recently, however, that tidy division of the market, and its main players, into distinct segments has become increasingly blurred, first with the emergence of Embraer's E-170 and E-190 family of four medium-range passenger jets in the 70- to 120-seat sector — straddling the regional and mainstream markets — and then with Bombardier's definitive go-ahead for its C Series jet.

The Blair Witch Project was perhaps the most successful independent film of recent times to smash its way into the mainstream by straddling the tantalising line between fact and fiction.

She's been straddling the line between polygamous and mainstream worlds, and since we've already seen Sarah (another blossoming young woman) choose the mainstream world, it's interesting to see Cara Lynn go in a different direction.

Two films this week effectively straddled the indie-mainstream space.

The Imposter beat rival upscale offering Shadow Dancer, an IRA drama that straddled the arthouse-mainstream divide.

Once again achieving the smallest decline (down 20%) of any film in the top 10, Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects continues to straddle the arthouse-mainstream divide, with takings so far of £3.40m.

Then he found his niche, straddling the two worlds of "new rock'n'roll" alternative comedy and the mainstream to which his working-class, bloke-next-door sensibility ideally suited him.

Straddling the line are instructions: "Cut here".