12 sentences with 'mainstream'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mainstream and other words derived from it.
• « While the mainstream Enlightenment was definitely an elite affair conducted in public, there were other elements to it. »
• « The so-called Radical Enlightenment (the term was invented by historians, not by people involved in it) had to do with ideas too outrageous for mainstream philosophies to support, such as total atheism. »
• « Perhaps the greatest impact of the Radical Enlightenment at the time is that it made mainstream Enlightenment ideas - however badly summarised in pirated works - more accessible to many more people in European society as a whole than they would otherwise have been. »
• « Back in Germany, criticism of the Kaiser first appeared in the mainstream press, and hundreds of thousands of workers protested worsening economic conditions. »
• « The country's pervasive censorship was relaxed, with some accurate accounts of the gulags becoming the mainstream publication. At the same time, among many, there were genuine hopes for broader political reforms of the system. »
• « There were no more mainstream political parties or movements attempting to create authoritarian forms of government; fascism and war had simply been too traumatic. »
• « Existentialism enjoyed mainstream press coverage and even inspired self-styled "existentialists" in popular culture who imitated their intellectual heroes by frequenting cafés and jazz clubs on the left bank of the Seine River in Paris. »
• « Especially during the modernist period, in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century, artists and writers had often staged their works in opposition to the culture and beliefs of their societies, but artists of the postmodern era could play with the mainstream without rejecting or breaking with it. »
• « Broadly speaking, the defining argument of both mainstream left and mainstream right parties to the present day concerns the degree of free market deregulation to be adopted. »
• « Many Europeans have been attracted to the far-right parties mentioned above, largely because the two sides of mainstream politics are almost indistinguishable; for many Europeans, the far right appears to be the only 'real' alternative. »
• « Even some citizens who do not harbour overtly racist views have come to be attracted to the new right, as mainstream political parties often seem to represent only the interests of out-of-touch social elites (once again, Brexit serves as the starkest demonstration of voter resentment that translates into a shocking political outcome). »
• « As the will of the majority became the rule of the day, all those who stepped outside the mainstream of white American opinion, especially Indians and blacks, were vulnerable to the wrath of the majority. »