highbrowed

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• Perelman is certainly a benevolent angel in that collision between lowbrow and highbrow.

• Ben Affleck was someone you were supposed to take seriously, someone whose work you were supposed to engage with sincerely, as highbrow art.

• It doesn’t really bother me that My Unorthodox Life isn’t as serious or highbrow as many of its predecessors in ultra-Orthodox entertainment.

• For better or worse, we’re watching a genre step off its highbrow pedestal—one that supported it through the making of many classic and literally world-changing films, but also helped to limit its audience.

• Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”

• Turns out highbrow culture can be found in the sunshine state.

• It's no longer the highbrow mecca of fashion it once was, after all.

• For highbrow patrons who are more familiar with Tolstoy than Ivan Drago, head to the Russian Tea Room.

• It's where you rub shoulders with the big boys and enjoy highbrow ambiance.

• "They recently let me join a highbrow mountain club; but when I start for the rocks I hesitate," Deering resumed.

• They reckon they're highbrow frontier cavalry and I guess the trooper won't allow a girl held him up.

• Weren't there to be any cakes and ale in New York simply because a highbrow happened to be mayor?

• She had met him at some highbrow affair—it was a reception or some such social maelstrom—and, yes, his name was Bowles!

• Well, symphony—more of the highbrow stuff, I guess you would say.