ivory tower
Example Sentences
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Ed Miliband, now Britain’s foreign secretary, praised Hobsbawm for bringing “history out of the ivory tower and into people’s lives.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Some of those eagerly sought to enlighten their charges, while a few others grew to see – or claimed to see – an unbridgeable chasm between the ivory tower and mass cultural aspiration.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
They’re not coming down from the ivory tower like the doctors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
Often operating in ivory tower silos and echo chambers, we scientists do an incredibly poor job of explaining to the public what and why we’re studying, our methodology, and the potential advantages of our work.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2025
And so this, he reflected, this was how Jenny employed the leisure hours in her ivory tower apart.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
