elevator music

Example Sentences

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It is the elevator music, the Muzak, of potato dishes.

From Salon • May 9, 2024

Which is why we should stop asking why the message is still allowed to happen and start asking when it became distilled down to constitutional elevator music.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2023

White House meetings with allies like Yoon might seem like the elevator music of foreign policy, predictable and preprogrammed.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2023

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

Different elevator music was playing since my last visit—that old disco song "Stayin’ Alive."

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan