highbrow

Example Sentences

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He reaped great commercial rewards with cutting-edge highbrow material—yet sometimes felt his audience couldn’t keep up.

From The Wall Street Journal

Working at a frenetic pace on stage, Belzer could go from highbrow social commentary to gutter humor in the blink of an eye.

From Salon

Almost always together, they issue scathing judgments of the other guests from behind the covers of highbrow texts.

From New York Times

“I have plenty of highbrow ideas, but candidly, the most valuable tidbit is decidedly lowbrow: ‘Never enter a courtroom on a full bladder or an empty stomach,’ ” he wrote.

From Washington Post

For something a little more highbrow, there’s the Browser, a smart British aggregator that draws on sources across the English-speaking world.

From Los Angeles Times