| The police evidence was risible, the Crown prosecutor a lowbrow bulldog, and the defence counsel out of his depth. |
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| Simplistic gameplay aside, the game is honestly funny when it's not being too lowbrow. |
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| She may very well be a grand, sweet lady, but she did some decidedly lowbrow, unladylike things. |
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| Until recently I thought how-to books to be popular, in a lowbrow sort of way. |
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| While some might question the appeal of a show set in such lowbrow circumstances, I found it refreshing. |
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| And it's also a very lowbrow genre, that nobody is really paying attention to. |
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| The show was initially ridiculed by many reviewers as the most abysmally lowbrow series in television history. |
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| Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. |
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| But I worked on eight seasons of The Simpsons, and we certainly had our lowbrow jokes. |
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| In addition, the award presentation broadcast, long known for its critically panned, lowbrow fare, rambled on almost without a break. |
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| Call me a lowbrow, a philistine if you like, but I wasn't lured to Vienna by any of these. |
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| To be fair, this is just the kind of lowbrow humor that will have junior high and high school students rolling in the aisles. |
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| At the same time, though its humor's lowbrow to the max, it's all wrong for the kid market. |
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| Will the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder? |
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| It is also true that more people will always be attracted to the passive, easy nature of lowbrow culture than those who will take the time to decipher high culture. |
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| The context has provided a moment of unexpected, lowbrow hilarity. |
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| She showed the desperateness of suffering, a woman's incredible patience with injustice and finally, a lowbrow grace that is not common in a world filled with pretensions. |
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| Rather than present a biting satirical assailment on religion, I shall present a puerile, lowbrow rant on religion's younger brother, cult worship. |
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| It should cater to a wide range of people of all ages, highbrow and lowbrow, and their varied interests. |
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| Perhaps in the comfortable vacuity of reality television, celebrity-watching and lowbrow movies there was reason for a kind of self-accusation. |
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| Guy Fieri has become the Food Network's biggest star, while offending foodies by promoting lowbrow favorites like BBQ sushi. |
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| Someone will ask the question: how highbrow, middle-brow, or lowbrow should a festival be. |
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| All these golden nuggets of wisdom come from The Reality TV Handbook, a new tome dedicated to the lowbrow television genre that is showing no signs of petering out. |
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| Their show, which comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month, is a collision between lowbrow Las Vegas dazzle and highbrow European aesthetics. |
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| This Christmas, remind the kids just how nice animation can be, with a cartoon genuine in its sentiment, free of pop culture references and lowbrow humor. |
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| It doesn't cater to the lowbrow philosophy that romance readers are all about intoxicating escapisms and lookisms and that they will shriek if someone over thirty gets naked. |
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| On one side you find the ruthless pursuit of profit and lowbrow culture. |
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| Is it the real deal or just a dumbed-down lurch towards the lowbrow? |
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| With wild turns from Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, Mel Brooks takes Springtime For Hitler from highly dubious to lowbrow cult genius. |
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| His television channels challenged state broadcasters with lowbrow programmes in the Italian language that appealed to those groups most likely to speak regional dialects. |
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| As a person, ancient historians described Claudius as generous and lowbrow, a man who sometimes lunched with the plebeians. |
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| We mixed highbrow and lowbrow, the celebrated and the not-yet-celebrated. |
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| However, even the lowest characters, such as the Miller, show surprising rhetorical ability, although their subject matter is more lowbrow. |
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| Reading all this, your terminally lowbrow Lost in Showbiz couldn't help but be reminded of The X Factor, upon whose theatrical inter-judge arguments such confected conflict may well be directly based. |
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| They remain avid theatre-goers, even in the provinces, and despite the obliging efforts of TV Nova to supply lowbrow fare enthusiasts for opera and classical music, for which tickets are still partly state-subsidised. |
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| They were lowbrow pastiche. The Adventures of Vicarage Leadbetter, a low-budget pisstake of Sherlock Holmes written for Radio Four. |
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| Forget Brendan O'Carroll in lowbrow romp Mrs Brown's Boys or Tom Hollander in BBC2's fantastic Rev. |
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| Boffo box office flows from unprecedented free publicity blitz, and Americans' right to watch lowbrow comedies is preserved. |
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| We can also do without the makers of lowbrow television programmes such as Benefits Street prowling around to further stigmatise easy targets. |
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| But given the amount of lowbrow series insulting the intelligence of so many out there, it's often a pleasure to tune in and get at least a few questions right. |
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| Why do any of us speak of comic books as lowbrow, Proust as highbrow? |
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