Critics of the New Age prefer to view such fringe phenomena as revealing the movement's true nature.

Always a fringe phenomenon, Canaries nationalism started to resurface in opposition to Franco.

Most of us thought the attempt to stifle the teaching of evolution was a fringe phenomenon.

But those developments are still fringe phenomena.

Hardly a fringe phenomenon, McCarthyism both predated and outlasted the four years in which its namesake flourished.

And the protests are not just a fringe phenomenon.

Phrenology, while not universally accepted, was hardly a fringe phenomenon of the era.

Eli Pariser seems to exist so that patriotic, mainstream, duct-tape-buying Americans can't dismiss the antiwar movement as a fringe phenomenon of graying pacifists and young nihilists.

Attendance climbed to 75,000, putting paid to those critics who had long claimed metal to be a fringe phenomenon in Belgium.

Lev Grossman of Time magazine has stated that support for the 9/11 Truth movement is not a "fringe phenomenon", but "a mainstream political reality."