Introducing a new and improved technique, The Pseudo-Flexorator. It solves the age old problem of line decorated text, in an elegent and majestic way.
The old technique for this effect used one pseudo element for a line and a <span> with a white background around the text to mask off some of the line, it worked but wasn't foolproof. It couldn't be used on other background colours without extra css and it introduces extra markup; Which is not really CMS friendly.