WASHINGTON — Elena Kagan is no ivory-tower peacenik.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kagan Military Controversy: AP Fact Check Shows She's No Ivory-Tower Peacenik] Reference

College was called an “ivory-tower of knowledge” before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea: Conflicts between Koreans in their 20s and in their 30-40s] Reference

This has been my view but I wonder whether it is too ivory-tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Protectionism?] Reference

Not exactly gloves-off, but not at all prim and ivory-tower, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wooden Disposition : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

The final touch that I most adore is that I am an ivory-tower liberal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

"The ivory-tower separation from the real world isn't acceptable anymore.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Desperately Seeking Cures] Reference

Get off your high horse and stop being the ivory-tower liberal everyone hates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

People may suspect Mr. King is an ivory-tower academic with no feel for markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central banks' liquidity plan] Reference

The troupe, which remixed Mr. Rogers's song, is by no means an ivory-tower bunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luring LeBron With a Song] Reference

Clearly your 7 cent overtipping is evidence of typical ivory-tower academic largess.    From Wordnik.com.  [In which I am greatly amused.] Reference

Lives were at stake in places that don't resemble the comfy ivory-tower blue states.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I will discover to my shock and chagrin ... Glenn Greenwald has already written about it, and I’m totally hosed."] Reference

Yet it doesn't take an ivory-tower scold to object to Deadspin's checkbook journalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Kurtz finds there are news nuggets in the tough, often tacky blog world] Reference

Creation is often an ivory-tower exercise, and performance the domain of a select few.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet Symphony « The Retort] Reference

And it's been set up by generations of bien-pensant ivory-tower idiots like Harriet Harman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Indeed, the BOE's ivory-tower approach to monetary policy arguably exacerbated this failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.K. Regulatory Overhaul Doesn't Go Far Enough] Reference

I just believe that that is an unrealistic, ivory-tower view of how you do this in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Elaine Kamark And Mike Mccurry] Reference

They tend not to take kindly to insults, particularly ones couched in ivory-tower liberalese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference

Just as Henrietta disdained academic jargon, she dismissed the ivory-tower aspects of academia.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Remember - Henrietta Yurchenco, 1916 - 2007] Reference

Maybe not now anymore, but at that time university was regarded as an ivory-tower for learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea: Conflicts between Koreans in their 20s and in their 30-40s] Reference

Don't you care that your abstract ivory-tower "articulations" have consequences for real people?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House.] Reference

Now ivory-tower intellectuals and symbolists proudly display their "magical seeds" of sustainism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael DeJong: The Human Stain on "Sustainism"] Reference

The idea of needing some ivory-tower rubber stamp seems anathema to this most outré of outsider arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funny Fodder] Reference

If you want to mock this plan as liberal ivory-tower tomfoolery, you are at least 40 years behind, Post.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Boys and Girls' to 'Shack Up,' Reports the Post, Excitedly] Reference

When people say that they have or value "empathy," they end up conveying an ivory-tower detachment or disdain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Empathy' Paradox] Reference

A feminist movement that considers day-to-day sexism too petty to ever discuss would be ivory-tower and snobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense Of Generalizations and “Petty” Complaints] Reference

In the ivory-tower jail of her hotel, her kinship with Evita grew as she watched newsreel footage of the Perons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madonna Tangos With Evita] Reference

Look, Rog, it's your blog and you can fill it whatever ivory-tower notion that's filling your head at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oops! I did it again] Reference

What Goldwater ignored, however, is that the Supreme Court is not just five ivory-tower justices hearing appeals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goldwater Institute: LIARS] Reference

Demonizing people who use the military to try to bootstrap themselves smacks of elitism and an ivory-tower mentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Der Dolchstoss] Reference

I thought you were the one who was always scornful of ivory-tower intellectuals and more interested in practical results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lighthouses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Or take that market that will never operate according to the wishes of the ivory-tower laissez-faire economists: health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katherine Kersten's Korner] Reference

Some people seem to have the idea, from time to time, that the foreign service is a rather esoteric and ivory-tower existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Foreign Service as a Career] Reference

This is definitely a matter of Corporatists in high ivory-tower positions versus grassroots Educators in the trenches of Reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Parrots Spellings Progaganda] Reference

But fundamentally he was one more ivory-tower theoretician who didn't consider the human lives that rode on decisions like that one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

Officially they pitched "tariff reform," which they were loath to call "free trade" since that phrase smacked of ivory-tower ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Campaign, New President] Reference

Berwick isn't just another ivory-tower philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

Have I ever said I approved of the unelected and ivory-tower placed EU??.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference