nobrow
See also: no-brow
English
Adjective
nobrow (comparative more nobrow, superlative most nobrow)
- Alternative form of no-brow
- 2005, Peter Swirski, From Lowbrow to Nobrow, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 10:
- […] my argument is that, by the first decades of the twentieth century, the popular-highbrow distinction in literature had already dissolved into nobrow art.
- 2005, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson […] , Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 140:
- The Simpsons is pure Nobrow, able to slide as effortlessly as Bob himself from slide-whistling slapstick to talk of Susan Sontag, and ultimately oblivious to any prejudicial classifications. It's not such much that lowbrow bludgeoned highbrow to death with a dozen rakes; it's that both of them have been subsumed into the one-stop-shopping megamall of pop.
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