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highbrowed

Of or pertaining to heightened intellectualism or superior learning or culture; especially erudite or sophisticated; appealing or suited to highbrows. The film is by no means highbrowed, but it has an intelligent enough story and some compelling characters. After two degrees in literature, Stanley insists on reading only highbrowed books.
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There were the little faces of the children, peeping from their bed apart and here the father's frame of strength, the mother's subdued and careful mien, the high-browed youth, the budding girl, and the good old grandam, still knitting in the warmest place.
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China's high-browed attitude was reflected in a telling 2010 statement by then foreign affairs minister Yang Jiechi.
China relies on thought control
Just one of many examples in brief from my coffee shop friends is: Within an hour of a very minor cut on my friend's finger he visited the first aid at his local hospital and was attended to by a high-browed orthopaedic doctor who asked him to clean his wounded finger.
Public service could learn from the animal kingdom
Miz Sherrill is an epic figure at the highest of the high-browed end of the decorative arts in New York.
Dirt: passel of stars flock to estates in Tony Calabasas
"It was geared toward the middle- and high-browed.''
Money and madness; James Dempsey's latest book examines life of Worcester scion Scofield Thayer
But is there a false dichotomy between "high fives" and "high-browed" demeanor?
Is service ethic compatible with professionalism?
People may dismiss the Earl as a "snob" who longs for the days when gals had the high-browed, glaucous-eyed beauty of the Mitford sisters but it is likely that he simply recognises the publicity value of a downright rude soundbite.
One does so hate to have to mix with one's inferiors wherever one happens to be
And the Daily Post was there with its expert writers to tell you all about it - whether it was ballet to make the eyes leap in their high-browed sockets, opera to be heard by men and women in dickie-bows and furs; or football at Anfield and Goodison, boxing at the old Stadium, dancing at the Rotunda.
A privilege to report on a city of style, talent and tradition; David Charters finds that in the sights and sounds of Merseyside, there is always culture, whether high or low, reminding us of fine heritage now opening into the promise of tomorrow
"Later we went to a high-browed gambling resort, where we remained until morning at the roulette table," he reported.
Respectable mediocrity: the everyday life of an ordinary American striver, 1876-1890
All of his titles clearly state the obvious, not lending themselves to any high-browed philosophizing: "Head of a woman with braids" "Woman with two children," "The drunks."
Country man makes a splash in the big city. (Art Watch)
Such is the level of his high-browed gibberish, he has now been dubbed the new David Brent from The Office.
NICE 'N' CHEESY; How he's gone from cringer to pop idol... and back again
So much so that, in the high-browed backlash that has followed, he claims to have quit the game.
Ged Scott on Saturday: Hopoate is thin end of ugly wedge
Such a misguided methodology leads only to the high-browed gossip of Rupert Croft-Cooke's Feasting With Panthers.
The language of Decadence
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