How To Use Middle-of-the-road In A Sentence
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Some glorious highs are counterbalanced by a few truly grating tracks and a bunch of middle-of-the-road filler, but that's true of any compilation.
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It would be all too easy to launch into an assault on Kelly and Co. for being bland, middle-of-the-road and turgid.
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Other owners use metallic wraps, multitone paint jobs and body kits to transform middle-of-the-road supercars into outlandish creations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cass was sixty-six years old. He was a middle-of-the-road Democrat.
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Described as post-grunge rock, it strips all the guts and glory out of the grunge we know and love, leaving the listener with watered-down middle-of-the-road ambiguity in both music and lyric.
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The trustees present three projections, based on pessimistic, middle-of-the-road and optimistic economic assumptions, respectively.
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Is it fair that many middle-of-the-road professionals must finish in the top 20 this weekend at Loch Lomond or miss their chance to play in the world's greatest championship at Royal St George's next week?
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The album is mainly middle-of-the-road reggae, heavy on drum and bass, and chock-full of melody lines that grab you right away and sound better with each listen.
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First it's blogger "sooey," asserting that middle-of-the-road blogger Marky Mark and the wretched anti-Semite "arthurdecco" are one and the same person -- and that they're probably both that other wretch, "shlemazl.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The overwhelming majority of radio stations are like Radio 2: middle-of-the-road music, an engaging presenter and news on the hour.
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It is a good middle-of-the-road steel and is perfect for hunting knives like this due to its ability to hold an edge and its ease of resharpening.
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Their first album was quite good, but the second was very middle-of-the-road stuff.
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The problem with Eyes Adrift is that they make lifeless, middle-of-the-road tunes that exist, barely.
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Because Equus is sold through Hyundai dealerships, a middle-of-the-road brand, dealers routinely pick up cars and deliver loaners to customers' homes and businesses.
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When covering Dionne Warwick, it's hard to avoid the mellow middle-of-the-road.
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The music-variety genre aired on television at a time when rock and roll was growing in popularity, and the middle-of-the-road music offered by most of these shows did not appeal to younger audiences.
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As I've said before, I'd like to be middle-of-the-road on this.
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There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.
Rumer: seasons of my soul – review
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This is a warm bath of lush colours and pretty voices with all the edge and darkness successfully buried for a middle-of-the-road film experience.
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And it turns out that the Republicans were able to win the middle-of-the-roaders, the moderates, the centrists.
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When the big bosses are trying to run the middle-of-the-road people out of the electoral process, you've got to wonder about the space we allot in the public arena for the circus freaks that give the world its colour.
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A handful of moderates are talking to middle-of-the-road Senate Republicans about possible compromises, although the talks are going slowly.
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It sounds like a decent middle-of-the-road weepie, which is the right way to go -- if she starts angling for Oscars right now it's going to backfire.
Cinema Blend Feeds
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The general formula is middle-of-the-road songwriting layered with U2 inspired bloat and some alternative or indie-rock window dressing.
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Even an average middle-of-the-road outfit has reason to believe this could be the year.
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For more middle-of-the-road housing, the big one is going to be the redevelopment of the council-owned Lagoon Farm, which could realise as many as 800 sections.
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Consensus need not be weak, nor need it result in middle-of-the-road policies.
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He begins at the piano, back to the audience, crooning through some svelte middle-of-the-road coffee table number as only Bryan can.
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While Girl Alone uses more soulful ballads, this newer version offers a greater variety of songs, including some rock and roll mixed in with the other middle-of-the-road music.
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This track is very middle-of-the-road, and features clear dialogue, music and effects.
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Consensus need not be weak, nor need it result in middle-of-the-road policies.
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Musically, everything is absolutely fine, in a middle-of-the-road, unexceptional sort of way.
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In short, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is something terribly middle-of-the-road about the old canon - which I will call the Citizen Kane canon.
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They all offer white bread, middle-of-the-road ideas or experiences entirely lacking in intellectual or emotional nourishment.
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The pack was led by Mike, whose quoted song lyric hints that the superficially middle-of-the-road, middle-class, middle-management nature of my life might not be the full story.
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It found that Irish people like most sorts of music, with middle-of-the-road music having the greatest appeal.
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Consensus need not be weak, nor need it result in middle-of-the-road policies.
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Obviously there's some very modern sorts of jazz, so I made it more of a middle-of-the-road piece of jazz music rather than extreme cutting-edge piece of jazz music.
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I actually don't want to be a middle-of-the-road person, married with a mortgage.
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Yet if there's one thing most middle-of-the-road parents can agree on, it's that they are worried about how pop culture affects their children.
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Musically, everything is absolutely fine, in a middle-of-the-road, unexceptional sort of way.
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These visages were created by first digitally blending a series of faces from each race into ‘composites’ to create average, middle-of-the-road features typical of each race.
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But in 1989, those middle-of-the-road rumblings dramatically changed lanes, as a squeaky clean princess met a notorious bad boy.
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Their first album was quite good, but the second was very middle-of-the-road stuff.
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Mr. Wildhorn's tunes sound like half-remembered middle-of-the-road AM-radio ballads from the 1970s, touched up with banjo and dobro to give them a theme-park period feel.
Wheel This Barrow Out of Town
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The 'middle-of-the-road' statist cannot logically say that there are 'many forms' of unjustified coercion.
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The album is mainly middle-of-the-road reggae, heavy on drum and bass, and chock-full of melody lines that grab you right away and sound better with each listen.
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Having conceded so much to the opposition, he has to work hard to secure a middle-of-the-road position - to avoid drifting either to the Platonist right or to the pragmatist left.
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No matter how middle-of-the-road the ballad, Keys will plaster it with showy arpeggios, rococo trills and glissandos, an approach that brings to mind the unlovely image of Dido jamming with Richard Clayderman.
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It's a solid middle-of-the-road release that has some good performances from unknown actors.
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In fact, it had all the hallmarks of reasonably interesting, middle-of-the-road, weekday morning commercial radio, but it rapidly turned into something resembling a spectacle.
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Not surprising, after all; he'd designed the New Luddites to have a lot of middle-of-the-road appeal.
T2©: RISING STORM
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It's your basic, middle-of-the-road, spare but clean and cheap lodging which I always turn to when I'm footing the expenses myself.
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There are times when the surround feature kicked in (mostly with Alan Silvestri's upbeat music score), but otherwise this is a middle-of-the-road audio track.
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The word is anathema to conservative or middle-of-the-road politicians in most countries, who see in it a radical and perhaps exaggerated voice.
Why there's no reason to fear feminism | Jonathan Glennie
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I like cheerful, uplifting middle-of-the-road pop.
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Consensus need not be weak, nor need it result in middle-of-the-road policies.
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That school is a pretty straightforward, middle-of-the-road, non-political school.
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Consensus need not be weak, nor need it result in middle-of-the-road policies.
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The musicianship is pretty tepid, middle-of-the-road country fare, but if you're a fan of harmony groups, this one is definitely worth a listen.
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But when he hears the king, he realises just how middle-of-the-road his own music is.
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The Independent has remained independent from political allegiances though it too favoured a middle-of-the-road political outcome in the 1987 election.
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The plan was to pick a middle-of-the-road load to start, and then work up to a safe maximum in reasonable increments.
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What we want here is a good, safe, sane, middle-of-the-road man, with a nice, dowdy wife who wears hats.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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I am not a rabid republican but a middle-of-the-road Irish person who is proud of her Irish history and does not like to see it rewritten by anti-Irish journalists with a unionist agenda offensive to ordinary Irish people.
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But as a middle-of-the-road bishop pointed out on a chat show, theirs was essentially a religion of regeneration.
PASSION IN THE PEAK
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The food is middle-of-the-road and well-prepared without being spectacular or too challenging, it's competitively priced and the surroundings are groovy.
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Still, it's no wonder that Inside Job is a middle-of-the-road fluff-fest due to the fact that even the best of The Eagles' stuff was pure AM radio-lite music.
