Example sentences for: highbrow

How can you use “highbrow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While the catalog does contain some potentially controversial material, such as Hungarian artist Rezso Merényi's Mouse Kiss , a 1922 etching of "a grand-scale vagina juxtaposed with two mice," the selection, made by the Kinsey Institute itself, mostly highlights the highbrow elements of the collection, such as a Chagall lithograph displaying some mild buttock fondling.

  • The circuit's crude plays make "Good Times look like Strindberg," but they make money and draw huge black audiences (highbrow black theater does neither).

  • Jack (Mike Nichols) on highbrow vs. lowbrow (22 seconds) :

  • The highbrow critics dissent, arguing that director Iain Softley has flattened the subtleties of James' novel.

  • This week's New Yorker is light on ads (Chatterbox picked it up and for a second thought it was the New Republic !) but thick with highbrow Clintophilic rationalization in the form of an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.


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