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a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
they viewed universities as ivory towers
he lived in the ivory tower of speculation
How To Use ivory tower In A Sentence
- I am heartily against the Ivory Tower which has become a very real danger.
- Academics sitting in ivory towers have no understanding of what is important for ordinary people.
- Fog had slipped through a crack into the ivory tower.
- For the price of two torpedoes'we could live in ivory towers for the rest of our lives '. The Times Literary Supplement
- Obama's overeducation has left him with an "ivory tower" outlook, Rush charges. Chicago Reader
- If he were white, we'd be getting the elitistist eggheaded ivory tower in-tee-lect-shul who never did an honest days work in his life smear, the corrupt Chicago politician smear and, possibly, the inexperience smear. Counting The White Women In McCain's "Hot Chicks" Ad
- And if you think I'm using big words, you should have heard these ivory tower windbags.
- Indeed, the term "ivory tower" is generally used by anti-intellectuals to denigrate and marginalize the achievements of the academic world.
- ‘A lot of people in academia have taken the studious route all their lives; they enjoy the isolation of the ivory tower,’ says Duncan.
- It is the stuff of ivory towers and only clever boys and girls are expected to reflect upon its themes.
