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Recent Examples of highbrow
Adjective
That combination of highbrow admiration and crowd-pleasing shocks is a treasured feat in horror. Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 And well before Telluride co-founder Tom Luddy’s death in 2023, Huntsinger has been flying solo and booking a strong lineup of highbrow awards contenders, classics, and idiosyncratic discoveries. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
The roll call of films ranges from the highbrow to the decidedly grungy, the menu of a true movie fanatic. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023 Tár is its highbrow counterpart, teasing and celebrating the same personal crisis and class issues. Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for highbrow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for highbrow
Adjective
  • American historiography of the Civil War would be dominated by the Confederate-friendly into the middle of the twentieth century, providing intellectual backbone for the American version of apartheid.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Journalist/film scholar Mark Harris pops up late in the series to smooth some intellectual transitions.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The artist needs no cerebral middleman to move the motif from the world to the page.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • If anything, their Didi and Gogo (Winter plays the former, the more cerebral and anxious of the two, and Reeves the latter, the disgruntled yet tender beta clown) are still a little on the solemn side.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, scholarly knowledge was becoming more specialized and professionalized.
    Time, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of a faculty committee empowered to vet scholarly publications for racial bias has, ineluctably, a Star Chamber vibe.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025

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