highbrow Význam & definícia

Príklady highbrow

• Literary highbrows may mock the genre, but romance or "women's fiction" is big business.

• She is a scholar and a bit of a highbrow.

• Only highbrows read books like this.

• The highbrow among us might argue that there's no comparison between an Ibsen play and a soap opera.

• On the one hand, they have traditionally been seen by highbrow critics as a low, degraded form of artistic expression.

• When he wrote his way into financial health, he did so by producing middlebrow literature that threatened his aspirations to join a highbrow literary elite.

• I am not sophisticated, not highbrow in any sense of the term.

• In contrast, highbrow and very refined are not qualities to which one might necessarily aspire, with their over tones of snobbery and elitism.