ivory tower
Example Sentences
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It’s usually wrong to stand in your ivory tower shouting out the window that a broad swath of people in the market are mistaken.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
“I use these examples to show my team that we can’t be ivory tower operators.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Often operating in ivory tower silos and echo chambers, we scientists do an incredibly poor job of explaining to the public what and why we’re studying, our methodology, and the potential advantages of our work.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
Whenever an academic term breaks out of the ivory tower, it is going to lose some meaning and that’s true here.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2024
Baudelaire built his ivory tower on the borders of a poetic Maremma, which every miasma of the spirit pervaded, every marsh-light and glow-worm inhabited.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
