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a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place
they viewed universities as ivory towers
he lived in the ivory tower of speculation
How To Use ivory tower In A Sentence
- For heaven's sake, you've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember.
- This is generally stuff I've been too liberal artfully educated to not say anything about (Seizer's STIGMA class for the * headdesk*), or, in more ivory tower terms, "interrogate". What's Best for the Oppressed, #0: Intro!
- What we have here is more of the ivory tower, laissez-faire bushwa that substitutes for thinking in this corporatized administration.
- Out of the ivory tower and onto the streets with you, laddie.
- Unlike many of their colleagues, they were not just working in ivory towers. Times, Sunday Times
- I'd read Ivory Tower Blues, by James Côté and Anton Allahar, two professors at the University of Western Ontario who had chronicled what they dubbed the crisis of "credentialism" at Canadian and American schools. Failure to Fail
- They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is.
- Nowadays, colleges are no longer isolated or remote ivory towers.
- The stereotype of the beardy academic, dressed in ill-fitting corduroy and locked away in his ivory tower, endures.
- Unlike many of their colleagues, they were not just working in ivory towers. Times, Sunday Times