| This was no shrinking violet who wrote his poetry from the lonely vantage of an ivory tower. |
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| They can open a window on the inner workings of ivory tower, debunking stereotypes of academics as detached from the real world. |
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| Slowly but surely, academics crawled out from the sanctity of their ivory tower hidey-holes to declare it an affront to modern womanhood. |
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| What we have here is more of the ivory tower, laissez-faire bushwa that substitutes for thinking in this corporatized administration. |
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| The stereotype of the beardy academic, dressed in ill-fitting corduroy and locked away in his ivory tower, endures. |
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| It's a lofty ideal and one which will probably remain in the ivory tower of newspaper journalism, but I would add one caveat. |
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| And if you think I'm using big words, you should have heard these ivory tower windbags. |
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| Robbie Johnson had cornered a timid young lecturer and was educating him about the nature of the real world outside the ivory tower. |
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| I'm not going to an ivory tower to write reports and articles for other academics. |
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| Some of us would enjoy the ivory tower only too much, and there is plenty of self-interest on the part of academics who want to return to it. |
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| It's a story you hear trotted out by politicians trying to make a point or ivory tower newspaper columnists trying to fill a page. |
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| He seems to be a regular guest on some BBC radio programmes on environmental matters, so he is not an ivory tower scribbler. |
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| Empiricism certainly has a role to play, but it cannot be the empiricism of ivory tower academics, and it cannot be an exclusive role. |
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| Out of the ivory tower and onto the streets with you, laddie. |
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| Rhythm and movement are everywhere in India, like air and water, and affect even the most prosaic shopkeeper in the bazaar or the academic in his ivory tower. |
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| This just punishes the politicians who are trying to be close to the people, and rewards the ones who hide away in their ivory tower! |
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| I wish to emphasise once more that this is not a proposal which has been dreamt up in a bureaucratic ivory tower. |
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| What is saddening about the concept of the ivory tower is that it has become the symbol of withdrawal without return. |
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| But this service must make sure that it does not do this from an ivory tower. |
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| It is very clear that the ideal world is an ivory tower right now within the Liberal caucus. |
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| We are meeting together here today in an open international setting and not in an ivory tower. |
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| That is the only way of ensuring that we come down from our ivory tower and that we no longer issue laws in a vacuum or from the top down. |
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| He hoped that from all he had heard at the conference he would not be up there in the limbos and in an ivory tower. |
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| If I had been an introverted researcher in an ivory tower, the project would never have got off the ground. |
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| On the contrary, with its strong emphasis on experimental, self-referential work, it pushed art back into the ivory tower. |
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| An ivory tower is a good place to go to prepare yourself for action, to think things through, to gather strength. |
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| We don't speak here about religion as something abstract, something in an ivory tower! |
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| And we cannot be in the minds and hearts of the people if we are only in a very distant ivory tower. |
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| Nowadays, if you pull back all that ivy, the ivory tower can be a pretty dark place for some academic workers. |
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| The execution process must be connected to the real world: it cannot function effectively in an ivory tower. |
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| Convincing the ivory tower decision-makers may take quite an effort if they choose to share TV revenues. |
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| Our paralysis amidst this paradox is not helped by the way it has taken hold inside the ivory tower itself. |
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| He takes on higher education in his new documentary, ivory tower, which premiered at Sundance. |
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| In today's political climate nothing spells defeat for Democrats more than the image of a bunch of fey, ivory tower eggheads running the military. |
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| The main lesson is that projects should not be planned and executed in an ivory tower but in full and active partnership with the main stakeholders, especially the expected users of project outputs. |
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| The Justice Secretary was full of his usual bluster yesterday, yet we urge him to come down from his ivory tower. |
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| They must break free from the degree factory and ivory tower syndrome and become, at one and the same time, a local development resource and a centre for the lifelong diffusion of education and culture. |
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| The resulting somewhat negative reputation of nuclear physics being pro-armament has perhaps led to science as an institution receding to what its critics call an ivory tower and avoiding politics. |
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| It exists as a concomitant to the salon and the ivory tower. |
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| I must say that, with all due respect, I think that's a very ivory tower approach. |
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| You are so confident or anaesthetised by your own hubris or by taking substances, or however people become caught in their own ivory tower. |
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| Don't twist this advice to mean that you should retire from the world and live on reading, to become a hermit or the self-proud inhabitant of an ivory tower. |
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| The Liberal leader has clearly demonstrated that he is more at ease in an ivory tower than in the real world with real workers in the resource regions of Quebec and Canada. |
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| Neither a European fortress nor an ivory tower should be created. |
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| Several researchers had experienced similar situations, and one researcher stated: First of all, whether as a scientist you're government-based or university-based you're viewed as ivory tower. |
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| Scientists who shut themselves up in the ivory tower of pure research and omit to fulfil their civic duties and to make their voices heard leave the way open to the hotheads and demagogues who are out to replace them. |
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| To truly benefit society, innovation must be embedded in our everyday world, in our businesses, rather than remain the exclusive domain of ivory tower intellectuals. |
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| He needs to come down from his ivory tower and listen to people. |
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| The majority of librarians appear to have shown a very ivory tower approach to the application of all types of management technique to librarianship. |
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| Come along, for an hour and see canny North Shields from an ivory tower. |
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| The clock tower, Nelson's refuge, represents the legacy of genteel white male Ivory Tower privilege. |
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| I am heartily against the Ivory Tower which has become a very real danger. |
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| The US-born chef has been running the Ivory Tower restaurant in Cork for the last decade, winning numerous international accolades for his unique style and passion. |
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| Both projects, Burooj Residence and Ivory Tower, will be displayed in Weetas suite for the exhibition visitors. |
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| One rarely considers the fact that the Ivory Tower is its own sort of reality, with customs and folkways that would befuddle the most conscientious anthropologist. |
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| Investors in Saudi developer Sokook's infamous Ivory Tower project still get notices of contract cancellations, a report said. |
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| The documentary Ivory Tower has emerged in the midst of that firestorm. |
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