elevator music
Example Sentences
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It is the elevator music, the Muzak, of potato dishes.
From Salon • May 9, 2024
The sheer familiarity of Bacharach's music meant the cleverness of much of it was sometimes overlooked: it was dismissed as "elevator music" or "easy listening".
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2023
Grand archways and built-in aquariums line the living spaces, and the many amenities include a gym, game room, bar, elevator, music studio and plush movie theater with guitars strung along the walls.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
Before those were removed, I did listen, and they were neither karaoke nor Filipino pop; rather, they sounded like insipid elevator music.
From Slate • May 10, 2021
Different elevator music was playing since my last visit—that old disco song "Stayin’ Alive."
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
