How To Use Highbrow In A Sentence

It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance.
He pointed out that the book review is a news service, a digest of the latest news about books - not publicity for publishers, nor a rarified forum for highbrow esoterica.
The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find.
Philippe Garrel is also one of those figures: a director with fanatic followers in the most highbrow circles of film criticism.
It's got an on-air team led not only by Chow, as the host, but highbrow art experts such as gorgon auctioneer Simon de Pury, who will mentor the 14 artists competing for a cash prize of $100,000 and a solo show at the prestigious Brooklyn Museum of Art. Judges and guest judges include New York gallery owner The latest from teenvogue.com

Why not take the arts into cinemas by turning highbrow shows into movies? Times, Sunday Times
Everyone with a safe £500 a year turned highbrow and began training himself in taedium vitae. Inside the Whale
He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today.
Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award! Thinking Blogger Awards
Broad, rude, crude and offensive were just a few of the criticisms levelled at this scatological sitcom, but the show had the perfect response to such highbrow jibes: ratings.
It's like the Daily Star with all the news and sport taken out, only rather less highbrow.
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in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
Remember, the fish don't give a hoot about all the highbrowed intellectual talk concerning flyfishing. I'm a college student who wants to get into fly fishing. Is there quality equipment out there that won't break my small bank?
The highbrow study claims to demonstrate the huge contribution the "derriere" has made to civilisation, mixing the views of top psychoanalysts, philosophers, scientists and artists. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was "too sophisticated" to appeal to most viewers.
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.
Today, only a highbrow would take a Shakespeare play along with him.
Pity the highbrow drama fan in front of the TV at 9pm last night. Times, Sunday Times
But since larger issues are involved, since the Battle of the Brows troubles, I am told, the evening air, since the finest minds of our age have lately been engaged in debating, not without that passion which befits a noble cause, what a highbrow is and what a lowbrow, which is better and which is worse, may I take this opportunity to express my opinion and at the same time draw attention to certain aspects of the question which seem to me to have been unfortunately overlooked? The Death of the Moth, and other essays
This year, the ceremony was broadcast live on arts channel BBC4, a channel so highbrow it has about six viewers.
The usual metropolitan and highbrow bias can be discerned.
This sort of evening is not for highbrow music lovers, but for people who enjoy listening to ‘normal’ Christmas carols.
Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
Now a series of reports questioning his ability to deliver highbrow culture into the establishment may have damaged his reputation.
On the other hand , as a intellectual, he uses sapiential discourse to represent highbrow character.
People who think that he should make the International Festival more populist, as opposed to highbrow, have clearly missed the point.
highbrow events such as the ballet or opera
Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy.
Men belch out at superdramatic volumes (nothing ever sounds natural), and mezzos sound nothing short of ridiculous, their voices denatured by the attempt to imbue the music with highbrow seriousness and high volume.
Highbrow readers supposedly experience 'increased interpersonal empathy and better executive attentional control'. Times, Sunday Times
According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities.
It seemed to me that there were now two areas: one was that of what you might call highbrow poetry and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field.
Interestingly, the youngsters have handled highbrow ostracism magnanimously, countering it with open arms and inclusiveness.
Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible.
We all laughed, of course, but being English postgrads, it came out that a number of us had written highbrow teenage love poetry - Martin had written a girl a sonnet.
To Lynes, the highbrow was ‘a person educated beyond his intelligence.’
Sure, all remember him - who could forget his highbrowed sensuality? Times, Sunday Times
The highbrow national monthly published his musings in the spring.
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.
Fall is highbrow time at the multiplexes, and this year even more than most the marquees are full of Oscar-bait adaptations of literary bestsellers from the past few years. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
Frequently Shakespeare serves as a metonym for ideologically charged concepts - literature, classical theatre, highbrow culture, intellectualism - against which popular culture defines itself.
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.
He has inexpensive tastes, even if he likes highbrow culture, and has the common touch.
That's obviously too highbrow a concept for them to comprehend.
a highbrowed literary critic
I love these books. Mind you, I had to giggle when I read that they had been described as ‘light entertainment for highbrows’.
Yet for the sheer visual audacity and wit, the Echt Amerikan sense of the didactic effortlessly intermingled with pleasure (We’re gonna expose you to some highbrow music, sonny, but you’ll have fun anyway), and the move away from the heavy Germanic style of earlier features into a cleaner, more open sense of space and horizon and character (physiognomy is destiny, except when hippos dance!) it remains my favorite feature-length release. A Ceramic Fantasia : Scrubbles.net
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.
However, those blinded by love may feel that Pink Pink Fizz's ripe, lively, appley, inoffensive cava bubbly is not highbrow enough for their tastes, in which case champagne's the thing.
Despite this anti-modernist sentimentality, from the 1930s to the 1950s Jaques's enormous popularity could not be wholly ignored by highbrow tastemakers.
He had never liked the highbrowed, affected, arty type, anyway. Sharp Edges
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.
He has filmed a series of highbrow dramas in the past two years. The Sun
There is no reason why a serious approach should not be taken to popular, as well as highbrow, culture. Times, Sunday Times
Readers of tabloid newspapers are less interested in politics and less likely to tune into highbrow news programmes.
It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
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.
In fact, their was a vibrant artistic tradition in America throughout the 19th century, one that mixed what came to be known as lowbrow and highbrow entertainment in the same evening's entertainment, and one that was owned and operated by artists not producers. Theatre Ideas
Sir Monty has written a popular appreciation of Rembrandt which Howard Belsey, himself an art historian, though of a more highbrow bent, has denounced for its retrogressive stance.
The lowly chow of the rural poor has gone highbrow.
It appears to be fearfully highbrow.
Shakespeare in Love had at least 6 fantastic performances, a brilliant screenplay that mixed highbrow and lowbrow humor, and actually had some interesting things to say about love and the creative process.
A projection screen flickers into life and Hope Of The States shamble onstage in that endearingly scruffy way that seems rather at odds with their borderline-highbrow music.
No more discussions of art with an arrogant, highbrowed snob who could not resist falling into full lecture mode at the drop of a museum catalog. Sharp Edges
It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
Sir Monty has written a popular appreciation of Rembrandt which Howard Belsey, himself an art historian, though of a more highbrow bent, has denounced for its retrogressive stance.
There is no finer example of literary lusciousness than a man reading a hefty tome of highbrow literature. Alli Rense: Hot Guys Reading Books (PHOTOS, POLL)
So argued the highbrowed philosophers of Greece and The Vital Message
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.
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.
You're left with a notebook page of highbrows, scribbled in a crabbed hand.
He presents his own highbrow literary programme.
In the decades that followed, it developed as a popular alternative to a highbrow arts festival: a jamboree of artistic experiment and innovation.
The tuba provides foursquare, marching-band / Dixieland resonance, the oud lends tart, percussive bite, and the bowed cello contributes some highbrow ambience.
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.
While a highbrow documentary on American lesbian crime-writers was certainly dull enough to kick my brain into neutral, I decided that I needed something lighter, more airy to chew on.
Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was "too sophisticated" to appeal to most viewers.
It's not highbrow in an elitist way but you have to pay attention and think while listening to it.
I believe you agreed with me at the time and later went on to imply that you thought I was an arrogant, condescending, highbrowed snob. Sharp Edges
Try to forget those wretched sequels and endless inferior imitators, because this stylish dystopian sci-fi thriller still stands up as a dazzling pinnacle of highbrow pulp cinema. Times, Sunday Times
On Night Waves on Thursday night, Philip Dodd took Blair to task in pleasingly highbrow Radio 3 style, pointing out that Blair's memoir, A Journey, is "marinated" in religion, as well as being obsessed with movement. Rewind radio: Evan Loves Tax; Tony Livesey; Night Waves
He was a novelist of a sort that scarcely exists anymore: a serious, highbrow (or highish-brow) entertainer, who for a while was even more successful as a playwright than as a novelist. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/10.
Perhaps all that stands in the balance here is a highbrow intellectual debate.
Still, the discipline needs to do some soul-searching and find ways to make economics scholarship something other than a highbrow appendage to the multitrillion-dollar financial sector. What 'Inside Job' does (and doesn't) get right about the financial crisis
These people actually think content isn't too big a problem, that all kinds of stories (whether so-called lowbrow or highbrow) can exist together, and that the problem is more of marketing (there! that's one of the opinions they share with you). Bloghopping Find
As for TV writing being "legitimized" as literature by "The Wire," that, too, feels a little highbrow for me. Chinalyst - China blogs in English
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.
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.
Their literature sections are supposedly quite highbrow, but they still have lots of popular stuff.
He was a novelist of a sort that scarcely exists anymore: a serious, highbrow entertainer.
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.
So, if you thought ‘Ulysses’ was only for highbrow academics, come along and be prepared to be pleasantly surprised!
Where has this sagacious highbrow been all our lives?
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.
The content, however, seems less highbrow than one might have feared.
Take to the countryside to enjoy the soothing strains of classical music at this highbrow summer fest.
My mission was to identify the winning strategy, and to highbrow all the bandwagon dingbats.
And, besides, it seems to impress the most attractive men on train journeys when you leaf through the pages of such highbrow reading matter and display interest in more than just the pictures.
There are lots of people trying to dumb down, trying to make highbrow stuff more real, more visceral.
I hate this attitude that classical music or the arts have to be highbrow.
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.
His voice was highbrow New York Jew working with one lung; Mal made his pitch as processed, spieled to a load of other cops and DAs. The Big Nowhere
Susan is the only writer today who can glide so fluidly and elegantly between uptown and downtown, highbrow and lowbrow, raun chy and refined all with great humor," said Amy Fine Collins, special correspondent for Vanity Fair and a friend of Ms. Fales-Hill, who read every draft of the novel. Uptown Girl Turns Writer About Town
Their show, which comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month, is a collision between lowbrow Las Vegas dazzle and highbrow European aesthetics.
Perhaps worse still, it has also been relentlessly over-analyzed by film highbrows.
But even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South TIME.com: Top Stories
I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next.
So highbrows think I'm shallow, and everyone else thinks I'm pretentious.
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.
I think that artists and the cultural sector can often seem unnecessarily highbrow.
It seemed to me that there were now two areas: one was that of what you might call highbrow poetry and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field.
But then, throughout his career he has mixed the personal with the abstract, the highbrow and the downright doolally.
I, for one, am glad that a network pretentiously titled The Learning Channel is not nearly as highbrow as its name might indicate.
So middlebrows appointed themselves as the defenders of popular taste against the authoritarian edicts of highbrow moral crusaders.
He was highbrowed and handsome, with a thin wisp of beard and a tiny moustache. The Weird Of The White Wolf
Popular taste is a good guide to the temper of the times, much more so than highbrow high culture.

How To Use Highbrow In A Sentence

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