highbrow

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If you think this question skews highbrow, think again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

So if “Ulysses” is what you want to be reading, then great, but don’t think that some kind of highbrow art is going to be the best for you.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He reaped great commercial rewards with cutting-edge highbrow material—yet sometimes felt his audience couldn’t keep up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

“What makes Goff so fascinating and relevant is his fearless attitude toward ingenuity and his ambivalence toward highbrow aesthetics and taste,” says Marco Piscitelli, curator of the exhibit.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

And Volpe’s tastes, in fact, are not uniformly highbrow.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove