highbrow

For better or worse, we’re watching a genre step off its highbrow pedestal—one that supported it through the making of many classic and literally world-changing films, but also helped to limit its audience.

Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”

Turns out highbrow culture can be found in the sunshine state.

It's no longer the highbrow mecca of fashion it once was, after all.

For highbrow patrons who are more familiar with Tolstoy than Ivan Drago, head to the Russian Tea Room.

It's where you rub shoulders with the big boys and enjoy highbrow ambiance.

"They recently let me join a highbrow mountain club; but when I start for the rocks I hesitate," Deering resumed.

They reckon they're highbrow frontier cavalry and I guess the trooper won't allow a girl held him up.

Weren't there to be any cakes and ale in New York simply because a highbrow happened to be mayor?

She had met him at some highbrow affair—it was a reception or some such social maelstrom—and, yes, his name was Bowles!

Well, symphony—more of the highbrow stuff, I guess you would say.