Don't you think that today it is in this sort of popular literature that you find strong archetypes, symbolic images which have vanished somehow from the more highbrow literary works ?. From LearnThat.org. [John Ebert]
highbrow events such as the ballet or opera. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But you know the highbrow is a fanatic, just as the lowbrow. From Wordnik.com. [the Influence of Music on the Community] Reference
But this same small locale is also deeply interesting in highbrow ways. From Wordnik.com. [Macau’s Big Gamble] Reference
I'm having difficulty understanding your need to predict how certain highbrow critics will respond to the film. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30.] Reference
"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.". From Wordnik.com. [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference
'highbrow' -- that is, if 'highbrow' is an indication of the content of the music itself. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
Indeed, the vampire elites ARE "highbrow" organized crime. From Wordnik.com. [Two kinds of politics: ideal & actual] Reference
It also tilts kind of highbrow, b/c of the university thing. From Wordnik.com. [November 2005] Reference
I think there is something inherently "highbrow" about poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Goddamned Poets. Always Thinking They're So Artistic and Poetical... Why, In My Day...] Reference
The speech itself is OK - except that it's a little too "highbrow" to really "grab" kids. From Wordnik.com. [Obama speech to school children: 'You make your own future'] Reference
Jim will decide that a "highbrow" can be a real man, and Richard will ever after have a fellow-feeling for the. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference
He felt the "off color" references interfered with the blog, but I personally feel "highbrow" and "lowbrow" go nicely together. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety] Reference
Mid-month, he is arriving in Washington for a Capitol Hill confab with friends and would-be supporters, a kind of highbrow listening tour. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007] Reference
"Wouldn't you rather be a 'highbrow' too?" she asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
He may have heard that Maeterlinck is a "highbrow" and it frightens him. From Wordnik.com. [The Patient Observer And His Friends] Reference
Contains the same kind of highbrow analysis that you get with Bitterwallet. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Sure, Stylista isn't the kind of highbrow, dinner-conversation entertainment like. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
The audience is in no sense "highbrow," it is the general level of German humanity. From Wordnik.com. [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference
Very "highbrow", well-educated people did come to power with Yeltsin and took decisions. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
Saving the life of a gink who, despite his brutal ways, belonged to the much-despised "highbrow" class. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
Shaun Treat, who teaches at the University of North Texas, is not bothered by "highbrow" critics either. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
I've argued for years that reasonable intellectual ( "highbrow," as you called it) political discourse has been missing from the airwaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Right] Reference
'highbrow' musical style such as Jazz-Rock / Fusion. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
You better be sending me a sample of your 'highbrow' peeps!. From Wordnik.com. [Highbrow Meets Lowbrow: Salted Caramel and Dark Chocolate Covered Peeps] Reference
"because indie movies are kind of highbrow by nature," while. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
A "highbrow" from Sewickley, or some unfortunate with a musical wife, was ludicrous. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference
"highbrow" candidate for governor, controlling the delegates from south and west Jersey. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
For his part, Mr. Atlas said: "I'm happy to be commercial; I'm not some kind of highbrow drudge. From Wordnik.com. [Abbreviated Span of 'Penguin Lives': Viking Pulls Out] Reference
A Chicago Symphony Orchestra ticket, "highbrow" and "lowbrow" have more to do with what used to be than with what is. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
For consumers of highbrow culture, Nextbook looks familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Beliefwatch: Bookish] Reference
You don't see that deference today from highbrow publications. From Wordnik.com. [Hate Your Job?] Reference
So what's a highbrow actress supposed to do in these lowbrow times?. From Wordnik.com. [Streep Shoots The Rapids] Reference
He must be -- highbrow doesn't usually earn that kind of street cred. From Wordnik.com. [Vivir: Black-Market Memoir] Reference
He knew what he wanted: political stardom, not highbrow legal celebrity. From Wordnik.com. [On His Own] Reference
But then, would you guess this about any editor of a highbrow art journal?. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs Of A Bare Naked Lady] Reference
So will today's low-rent parasites become tomorrow's highbrow news organizations?. From Wordnik.com. [Exterminate the Parasites] Reference
At least with a title like "Moulin Rouge," the audience knows not to expect highbrow. From Wordnik.com. [It's All About Anatomy] Reference
That sentence is him all over: highbrow and lowbrow allusions colliding to create intellectual fission. From Wordnik.com. [A King Of Infinite Space] Reference
France's highbrow psychoanalytic establishment still recommends years of costly Lacanian psychoanalysis. From Wordnik.com. [Let Them Take Prozac] Reference
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