| Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. |
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| It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance. |
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| People who think that he should make the International Festival more populist, as opposed to highbrow, have clearly missed the point. |
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| I think that artists and the cultural sector can often seem unnecessarily highbrow. |
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| Such concepts apply to architecture across the budgetary spectrum, from the low end to the highbrow. |
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| Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. |
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| So middlebrows appointed themselves as the defenders of popular taste against the authoritarian edicts of highbrow moral crusaders. |
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| Perhaps all that stands in the balance here is a highbrow intellectual debate. |
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| Edward was not an irredeemable highbrow, and he insisted that one of the most significant moments of his life was getting to meet Cyd Charisse. |
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| But then, throughout his career he has mixed the personal with the abstract, the highbrow and the downright doolally. |
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| Popular taste is a good guide to the temper of the times, much more so than highbrow high culture. |
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| Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy. |
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| Now a series of reports questioning his ability to deliver highbrow culture into the establishment may have damaged his reputation. |
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| Take to the countryside to enjoy the soothing strains of classical music at this highbrow summer fest. |
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| Interestingly, the youngsters have handled highbrow ostracism magnanimously, countering it with open arms and inclusiveness. |
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| This year, the ceremony was broadcast live on arts channel BBC4, a channel so highbrow it has about six viewers. |
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| With all due respect the Yeats Summer School is a bit highbrow, appeals only to the few, and is generally regarded as a tourist attraction. |
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| Their literature sections are supposedly quite highbrow, but they still have lots of popular stuff. |
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| He has inexpensive tastes, even if he likes highbrow culture, and has the common touch. |
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| It's not highbrow in an elitist way but you have to pay attention and think while listening to it. |
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| My mission was to identify the winning strategy, and to highbrow all the bandwagon dingbats. |
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| There are lots of people trying to dumb down, trying to make highbrow stuff more real, more visceral. |
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| It's like the Daily Star with all the news and sport taken out, only rather less highbrow. |
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| The content, however, seems less highbrow than one might have feared. |
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| I hate this attitude that classical music or the arts have to be highbrow. |
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| Today, only a highbrow would take a Shakespeare play along with him. |
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| Public perception remained the same: Radio 3 was too highbrow, too intellectual and too hermetic. |
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| The only thing that remains annoying about the work is the vapid starchiness of so many of the highbrow texts. |
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| Germany is considered to be a country of books, of deep thought, and of highbrow media. |
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| Scriptgenerator is fun: typically French in its self-conceit as highbrow entertainment. |
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| Their show, which comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month, is a collision between lowbrow Las Vegas dazzle and highbrow European aesthetics. |
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| It should cater to a wide range of people of all ages, highbrow and lowbrow, and their varied interests. |
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| Someone will ask the question: how highbrow, middle-brow, or lowbrow should a festival be. |
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| Could it be that techno's inner sanctum is a place of refuge for women rejected by its more highbrow relation? |
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| They have a better export record with highbrow, low-plot movies, set in chic apartments with parquet floors, that feel moodily French. |
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| They have even been profiled in the highbrow New Yorker magazine and hosted a live web chat with readers of the Boston Herald. |
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| But you don't need to venture to the highbrow performance centre to find music, culture and art. |
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| Is popular music, as put forth by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in a recent study, a highbrow art form? |
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| Thus it is hard to imagine Gréco, arbiter of highbrow culture, lending her voice to more banal forms of 'variété' music or lightweight pop. |
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| Her MySpace site created a buzz, and highbrow UK music monthly The Wire was writing about her as the next Billy Holiday. |
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| The third state-run Italian channel broadcasts highbrow reports and programs about culture, nature, science and the future. |
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| I know it's not highbrow, but it brings eyeballs to the CBC and it's a connection we all have on a sort of visceral level. |
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| Here, Pitts treats viewers to an intellectually highbrow, human and utterly masterful auteur film. |
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| Or shove a dog-eared thriller behind highbrow volumes on our living room shelves so as to cultivate a more intellectual image. |
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| He keeps the debate very highbrow so the people in Rosedale will understand it, even today, during question period. |
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| Now such readers who are housebound, agoraphobic or simply stuck at work all day can have the pleasure of browsing the highbrow press without even getting out of their chairs. |
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| But I'd have to say the blogosphere and Internet has given City Journal, a pretty highbrow magazine overflowing with thoughtful, long essays, a lot more readers. |
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| That's obviously too highbrow a concept for them to comprehend. |
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| Woke up this morning to a very highbrow debate on Radio National between George Monbiot, Christopher Hitchens and Lewis Lapham on the death of the Left. |
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| For highbrow patrons who are more familiar with Tolstoy than Ivan Drago, head to the Russian Tea Room. |
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| Despite this anti-modernist sentimentality, from the 1930s to the 1950s Jaques's enormous popularity could not be wholly ignored by highbrow tastemakers. |
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| He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today. |
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| He mimed and mocked me. His allusions were definitely highbrow. He was well-read. He knew French. He was versed in logodaedaly and logomancy. |
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| Armored in highbrow credibility, he lashes out with low blows. |
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| Even though there has been a certain highbrow intellectual interest in restorative justice, it has not translated into meaningful action on the front line. |
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| Turns out highbrow culture can be found in the Sunshine State. |
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| Other highbrow hits which failed to turn up on the list include Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights and Joanna Hogg's Archipelago. |
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| It's no longer the highbrow mecca of fashion it once was, after all. |
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| Margiela, who has been designing his own collection since the late-1980s, has been labeled a deconstructionist, and his clothes are highbrow and conceptual, unobservant of trends. |
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| They are the readers of the future, and in future they will constitute the pillars of the literary market, in both its highbrow and middlebrow segments. |
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| The award-winning architect filed a lawsuit in Manhattan supreme court last week, accusing the highbrow magazine and its architecture critic, Martin Filler, of defamation. |
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| The middle-aged and old now have free digital channels dedicated to their tastes, such as ITV3, home of wrinkly detective dramas, and the highbrow BBC Four. |
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| We mixed highbrow and lowbrow, the celebrated and the not-yet-celebrated. |
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| You'd think that a current Harvard senior and former president of The Harvard Lampoon might serve up a hipper-than-thou shivaree of pop culture or highbrow allusions. |
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| The four works in the third volume of Nouveaux Territoires are representative of the century in which we live, with its blending of pop and highbrow culture, tradition and new technology. |
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| Ince's ranty delivery, relentless meandering and unashamedly highbrow references made it an alienating and bafflingly unfunny experience for the unconverted. |
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| Why do any of us speak of comic books as lowbrow, Proust as highbrow? |
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