Examples of 'ivory tower' in a sentence
Meaning of "ivory tower"
The idiom 'ivory tower' is often used metaphorically to describe a state of seclusion or detachment from the practical world. It refers to the situation where someone is isolated or disengaged from the realities and concerns of everyday life
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- A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.
- Separated from reality and practical matters; overly academic.
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Somebody in an ivory tower set those priorities.
Ivory tower recognized he would be better served.
Do not think of it as an ivory tower subject anymore.
The ivory tower and social involvement.
You must live in your ivory tower.
It seems only one ivory tower is being stormed tonight.
There goes one reason for my ivory tower.
The scientific ivory tower is now an architectural rarity.
I got a call from the ivory tower.
I built my ivory tower in the sky.
I am going to climb and top your ivory tower.
The ivory tower types want to buy everything.
But he really does live in a bit of a ivory tower.
These are not ivory tower academics.
You are wasting away in that ivory tower.
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Ivory tower leave your stand.
To look down from your ivory tower.
An ivory tower remains to be touched though.
There can not be an ivory tower anymore.
The ivory tower model of science is vastly outdated.
Breaking science out of its ivory tower.
It seems only one ivory tower has been stormed tonight.
Maybe not to you in your ivory tower.
Coming from the ivory tower that you grew up in.
While the chiefs from ivory tower.
These ivory tower schools.
Beyond the walls of this ivory tower.
Ivory tower analytics teams.
This consciousness took me out of my ivory tower.
I am not up in some ivory tower or something.
The programmer is not isolated in an ivory tower.
The museum ceased to be an ivory tower to become part of reality.
Must be lonely up there on that ivory tower.
To lock yourself up in the ivory tower is impossible and undesirable.
They say we academics live in an ivory tower.
This place is not the ivory tower you think it is.
I sure as hell do not speak from an ivory tower.
The ivory tower of the mysterious artist has crumbled.
Abandoned by the ivory tower experts.
But sheriffs ought not to be sitting in an ivory tower.
I do not believe in this ivory tower poetry community.
I am not speaking up as a princess in an ivory tower.
An ivory tower on poisoned land.
A library complete with ivory tower.
Ivory tower syndrome.
Straight from the ivory tower.
You built your ivory tower brick by brick with lies.
That is how you get to the ivory tower.
The foundation of the ivory tower for architects has been shaken.
I thought you were up in some ivory tower.
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