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Definition of highbrow in English: highbrowadjective ˈhʌɪbraʊˈhaɪˌbraʊ derogatory Intellectual or rarefied in taste. innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following Example sentencesExamples - But I'd have to say the blogosphere and Internet has given City Journal, a pretty highbrow magazine overflowing with thoughtful, long essays, a lot more readers.
- It certainly isn't that we are particularly highbrow - I love intellectual stuff, but also Friends, chick lit and most films with Meg Ryan in.
- Now a series of reports questioning his ability to deliver highbrow culture into the establishment may have damaged his reputation.
- That's obviously too highbrow a concept for them to comprehend.
- Woke up this morning to a very highbrow debate on Radio National between George Monbiot, Christopher Hitchens and Lewis Lapham on the death of the Left.
- This year, the ceremony was broadcast live on arts channel BBC4, a channel so highbrow it has about six viewers.
- Philippe Garrel is also one of those figures: a director with fanatic followers in the most highbrow circles of film criticism.
- With all due respect the Yeats Summer School is a bit highbrow, appeals only to the few, and is generally regarded as a tourist attraction.
- I think that artists and the cultural sector can often seem unnecessarily highbrow.
- In the decades that followed, it developed as a popular alternative to a highbrow arts festival: a jamboree of artistic experiment and innovation.
- People who think that he should make the International Festival more populist, as opposed to highbrow, have clearly missed the point.
- I was going to say that it is not the type of book that I would normally have much time for, because it is published by Bloomsbury, and their stuff is usually a bit highbrow for me.
- Their literature sections are supposedly quite highbrow, but they still have lots of popular stuff.
- So, if you thought ‘Ulysses’ was only for highbrow academics, come along and be prepared to be pleasantly surprised!
- He has inexpensive tastes, even if he likes highbrow culture, and has the common touch.
- The content, however, seems less highbrow than one might have feared.
- I hate this attitude that classical music or the arts have to be highbrow.
- This sort of evening is not for highbrow music lovers, but for people who enjoy listening to ‘normal’ Christmas carols.
- There are lots of people trying to dumb down, trying to make highbrow stuff more real, more visceral.
- Although the ballet may not receive great acclaim from highbrow ballet lovers, it has had 6,000 performances overseas and organizers are confident Chinese audiences will respond warmly.
Synonyms intellectual, scholarly, bookish, cultured, cultivated, academic, educated, studious, serious, donnish, bluestocking, well read, widely read, well informed, sophisticated, erudite, learned informal brainy, egghead archaic lettered, clerkly
noun ˈhʌɪbraʊˈhaɪˌbraʊ derogatory A highbrow person. she considered all those without television as highbrows, intellectual snobs, or paupers Example sentencesExamples - The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find.
- Today, only a highbrow would take a Shakespeare play along with him.
- Edward was not an irredeemable highbrow, and he insisted that one of the most significant moments of his life was getting to meet Cyd Charisse.
- I love these books. Mind you, I had to giggle when I read that they had been described as ‘light entertainment for highbrows’.
- Expressing concerns that at first seem far removed from Rockwell's sensibility, highbrows also repeatedly warned of the mass media's power to encourage a false - and dangerous - sense of group solidarity.
- To Lynes, the highbrow was ‘a person educated beyond his intelligence.’
- In the current rush to condemn the so-called ‘highbrow,’ many seem to forget that highbrows are individuals who have worked for years in order to appreciate art at its most subtle level.
- In the 1999 series ‘Resolutions,’ Chicago continues to address the audience she has created of mainly middle- and working-class women, an audience easily dismissed by both highbrows and lowbrows.
- After a summer that has found all the highbrows giggling at the fact they liked Peter Frampton all along, here comes a real guilty pleasure.
- So highbrows think I'm shallow, and everyone else thinks I'm pretentious.
- Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
- What the highbrows seemingly fail to realize is that low culture always has been and always will be there, just as high culture has and will be.
- According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities.
- They think that, like the hicks of Holcomb and the fawning highbrows of Manhattan's literary salons, we will be won over by his wit and charm.
- Perhaps worse still, it has also been relentlessly over-analyzed by film highbrows.
- The highest of the highbrows were here tonight.
- This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity.
- There was a time when modern art was nobody's idea of fun. The lowbrows thought it was boring. The highbrows thought it was serious.
Synonyms intellectual, scholar, academic, bluestocking, bookish person, man/woman of letters, don, thinker, pedant informal egghead, brain, bookworm British informal brainbox, boffin North American informal brainiac, rocket scientist, Brahmin
Definition of highbrow in US English: highbrowadjectiveˈhīˌbrouˈhaɪˌbraʊ Scholarly or rarefied in taste. innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following Example sentencesExamples - Now a series of reports questioning his ability to deliver highbrow culture into the establishment may have damaged his reputation.
- I hate this attitude that classical music or the arts have to be highbrow.
- This year, the ceremony was broadcast live on arts channel BBC4, a channel so highbrow it has about six viewers.
- It certainly isn't that we are particularly highbrow - I love intellectual stuff, but also Friends, chick lit and most films with Meg Ryan in.
- Although the ballet may not receive great acclaim from highbrow ballet lovers, it has had 6,000 performances overseas and organizers are confident Chinese audiences will respond warmly.
- This sort of evening is not for highbrow music lovers, but for people who enjoy listening to ‘normal’ Christmas carols.
- Their literature sections are supposedly quite highbrow, but they still have lots of popular stuff.
- In the decades that followed, it developed as a popular alternative to a highbrow arts festival: a jamboree of artistic experiment and innovation.
- People who think that he should make the International Festival more populist, as opposed to highbrow, have clearly missed the point.
- But I'd have to say the blogosphere and Internet has given City Journal, a pretty highbrow magazine overflowing with thoughtful, long essays, a lot more readers.
- Woke up this morning to a very highbrow debate on Radio National between George Monbiot, Christopher Hitchens and Lewis Lapham on the death of the Left.
- The content, however, seems less highbrow than one might have feared.
- There are lots of people trying to dumb down, trying to make highbrow stuff more real, more visceral.
- That's obviously too highbrow a concept for them to comprehend.
- He has inexpensive tastes, even if he likes highbrow culture, and has the common touch.
- With all due respect the Yeats Summer School is a bit highbrow, appeals only to the few, and is generally regarded as a tourist attraction.
- Philippe Garrel is also one of those figures: a director with fanatic followers in the most highbrow circles of film criticism.
- So, if you thought ‘Ulysses’ was only for highbrow academics, come along and be prepared to be pleasantly surprised!
- I think that artists and the cultural sector can often seem unnecessarily highbrow.
- I was going to say that it is not the type of book that I would normally have much time for, because it is published by Bloomsbury, and their stuff is usually a bit highbrow for me.
Synonyms intellectual, scholarly, bookish, cultured, cultivated, academic, educated, studious, serious, donnish, bluestocking, well read, widely read, well informed, sophisticated, erudite, learned
nounˈhīˌbrouˈhaɪˌbraʊ A highbrow person. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps worse still, it has also been relentlessly over-analyzed by film highbrows.
- In the 1999 series ‘Resolutions,’ Chicago continues to address the audience she has created of mainly middle- and working-class women, an audience easily dismissed by both highbrows and lowbrows.
- According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities.
- To Lynes, the highbrow was ‘a person educated beyond his intelligence.’
- In the current rush to condemn the so-called ‘highbrow,’ many seem to forget that highbrows are individuals who have worked for years in order to appreciate art at its most subtle level.
- Today, only a highbrow would take a Shakespeare play along with him.
- This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity.
- The highest of the highbrows were here tonight.
- They think that, like the hicks of Holcomb and the fawning highbrows of Manhattan's literary salons, we will be won over by his wit and charm.
- The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find.
- I love these books. Mind you, I had to giggle when I read that they had been described as ‘light entertainment for highbrows’.
- After a summer that has found all the highbrows giggling at the fact they liked Peter Frampton all along, here comes a real guilty pleasure.
- So highbrows think I'm shallow, and everyone else thinks I'm pretentious.
- There was a time when modern art was nobody's idea of fun. The lowbrows thought it was boring. The highbrows thought it was serious.
- What the highbrows seemingly fail to realize is that low culture always has been and always will be there, just as high culture has and will be.
- Expressing concerns that at first seem far removed from Rockwell's sensibility, highbrows also repeatedly warned of the mass media's power to encourage a false - and dangerous - sense of group solidarity.
- Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
- Edward was not an irredeemable highbrow, and he insisted that one of the most significant moments of his life was getting to meet Cyd Charisse.
Synonyms intellectual, scholar, academic, bluestocking, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, don, thinker, pedant
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