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  • noun Plural form of highbrow.

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Examples

  • They are built solid, but there ain't no light and heat in them, and yet, Abe, the highbrows which is kicking about the American style of plays is crazy about these here Norway and Sweden plays and want American theayter managers to put on plays like them.

    Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905

  • Its slogan was "low culture for highbrows", so it got intellectual types to write about Madonna and the Simpsons.

    Can Toby Young's free school succeed? 2011

  • Never cozy with the art establishment—the highbrows at first didn't like his taste—he became an anti-snobbery snob, building a mansion just outside the city's border that opened in 1925 to exhibit the works not as a museum but as a school, teaching his own art theory and favoring working-class customers.

    The $25 Billion Art Move Don Steinberg 2011

  • As to Conan, it's really sad that no one realized his brand of comedy; for the highbrows who enjoy movies like Step Brothers and The Hangover, would translate well to the Tonight Show.

    Jay Leno Gets THE TONIGHT SHOW Back; I’m Still with Coco – Collider.com 2010

  • Part of it is the highbrows think it's not demeaning to your intellect.

    In Midtown, a Gathering for Downton Divas Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Mr. Hancock's fine book, which can be ordered online from www. bg1938.com, is a profusely illustrated, scrupulously researched chronicle of the Carnegie Hall concert that leaves only one question unanswered: Why did the King of Swing put his prestige on the line by playing a concert at America's best-known classical-music address at a time when jazz and popular music were still viewed with suspicion by most highbrows?

    The Unsure Artist Terry Teachout 2010

  • Mr. Hancock's fine book, which can be ordered online from www. bg1938.com, is a profusely illustrated, scrupulously researched chronicle of the Carnegie Hall concert that leaves only one question unanswered: Why did the King of Swing put his prestige on the line by playing a concert at America's best-known classical-music address at a time when jazz and popular music were still viewed with suspicion by most highbrows?

    The Unsure Artist Terry Teachout 2010

  • Mr. Hancock's fine book, which can be ordered online from www. bg1938.com, is a profusely illustrated, scrupulously researched chronicle of the Carnegie Hall concert that leaves only one question unanswered: Why did the King of Swing put his prestige on the line by playing a concert at America's best-known classical-music address at a time when jazz and popular music were still viewed with suspicion by most highbrows?

    The Unsure Artist Terry Teachout 2010

  • Mr. Hancock's fine book, which can be ordered online from www. bg1938.com, is a profusely illustrated, scrupulously researched chronicle of the Carnegie Hall concert that leaves only one question unanswered: Why did the King of Swing put his prestige on the line by playing a concert at America's best-known classical-music address at a time when jazz and popular music were still viewed with suspicion by most highbrows?

    The Unsure Artist Terry Teachout 2010

  • Many highbrows have been standing over boxing and counting it out these days.

    Gordon Marino: Pacquiao Lifts Boxing off the Canvas 2009

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