Example sentences for: highbrows

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

  • Was the hope that middlebrows would be seduced by its jaunty sentimentality and highbrows take it as ironic?

  • Spreading out from the base of the pyramid are those who have less suitably certified educations or no formal education at all, people who may have mixed feelings about “book learning,” “big words,” “fancy degrees,” “eggheads,” “highbrows,” and “absent-minded professors,” as well as the perils of scholarship, science, and technology.

  • Evidence that France is far from being a country of hidebound highbrows is the fact that the Marne Valley, east of Paris, was selected for Europe’s first Disneyland.

  • It's "a sort of Stephen King novel for highbrows" (David Gates, the New York Times Book Review ) that combines "existential bleakness" (David Ulin, Newsday ) and "breezy silliness" (Bill Kent, the Washington Post Book World ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani dissents, calling Already Dead "simultaneously pretentious, sentimental, bubble-headed and gratuitously violent."


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