highbrowed

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Max Rushden chairs proceedings, soliciting controversial, highbrowed and often amusing opinion from esteemed guests Jonathan Wilson, Jon Brodkin and ... eh, me.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2020

At last they found him: benign, highbrowed Physicist William Vermillion Houston, 46, who last year succeeded famed Robert Andrews Millikan as chairman of the California Institute of Technology's division of physics, mathematics and electrical engineering.

From Time Magazine Archive

At three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pauling is a signer and, with all the zeal of a highbrowed Babbitt, a joiner.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is because Mr Arnold Bennett takes up to his public an attitude more highbrowed than I could imagine if I were writing a skit on his book.

From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel