highbrow

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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

First with the Cambridge Footlights and later with the Pythons, Idle honed a linguistically-focused style that bridged highbrow absurdity and accessible, pop culture-driven humor.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

In 1974, he founded his own firm specializing in entertainment law, a niche many highbrow Wall Street lawyers dismissed as frivolous at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 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

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

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove