#relegated

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bin #bleached #clan #diversion #endless

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #cabaret #career #dope #dream

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#compete #corporate #funny #go #irrelevant

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. ↗

— Ice Cube

#going #important #important things #more #neighborhood

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap. ↗

— Richard Morris

#bothers #car #commercial #heap #hear

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#evangelicals #fundamentalist #jews #muslims #only

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#been #being #get #just #much

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#automatic #been #debate #democratic #democratic society

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #center #different #different ways #drag

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#character #constructs #more #quieter #relegated