Words similar to ivory-tower

Example sentences for: ivory-tower

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

Its laughs are as crude as the chuckles of "little boys sniggering over National Geographic " (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). Others say its digs at ivory-tower credulousness and Dreyfuss' turn as a neurotic professor make it "too funny to ignore" (David Denby, New York ). (The trailer is available here.)
It adds, with smug ivory-tower certainty, “The singular is, of course, medium.”
Now, these are not issues that ivory-tower libertarians would ignore.
One glaring weakness of "deconstruction" (a method of literary criticism long favored by the academic ivory-tower elite) is that it often searches for meaning in a comparison where, in reality, there is none.