How to Use highbrow in a Sentence

highbrow

noun

• No one balances the pleasures of highbrow and lowbrow TV quite like the British.
  — Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
• My tastes in wine (like my tastes in everything else) are a hard-to-describe mix of the homespun and the highbrow.
  — David Chang, GQ, 23 Sep. 2017
• For some, the slime obsession is a little less...highbrow.
  — Charlotte Lieberman, Marie Claire, 16 Aug. 2017
• The flamboyant curl screamed to be recognized as highbrow but lacked the finesse to pull it off.
  — Lawrence Ware, The Root, 7 June 2017
• In Washington, the product of highbrow schools became a bit more of a scrapper.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
• The highbrow location in Oslo is in keeping with Nio’s image, Li says.
  — Yue Wang, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• With a mix of world-class museums and a vibrant homegrown arts scene, the city is a refreshing mix of highbrow and low-key.
  — Paul Abercrombie, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
• Gertner and Dershowitz are longtime friends, but the highbrow exchange had an edge.
  — Mark Arsenault, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The rest of the drink skews fruity and herbal, thanks to pineapple juice and yellow Chartreuse, a French liqueur that adds a highbrow and slightly medicinal whiff to any cocktail.
  — Marian Bull, GQ, 27 June 2018
• There’s a highbrow/lowbrow theme to the menu, steered with aplomb by Executive Chef Martha Wiggins.
  — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• All this, plus a new Bachelorette season for our guilty pleasure, and a new Roxane Gay book for our highbrow needs.
  — refinery29.com, 2 May 2018
• This too primed him for an age when comics went highbrow and genre began to infuse literature.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Its glossy veneer has the appearance of a typical highbrow event.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• The concept driving Church and State resonates on many levels from highbrow to commonplace.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2020
• Over the past few years, younger artists who aren’t as concerned with distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow have started making pieces inspired by Mr. Ross, who died in 1995.
  — Kelly Crow, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018
• In fact, the evening—low-key, highbrow, and decidedly unflashy—is much more in keeping with Casiraghi’s preferred modus operandi.
  — Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2022
• To this collector of vintage plastic, the city is a whimsical assortment of highbrow and lowbrow.
  — Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
• How the second location differs from the original Pa'la, the beloved central Phoenix restaurant, is known for its highbrow tapas plates and upscale Italian food served over the counter in disposable plates.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2021
• Bravo was once a cable network that would broadcast highbrow plays and independent films.
  — Emily Fehrenbacher, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 Oct. 2017
• Despite the fact that there wasn’t a single book in the family house, his parents encouraged Luijten and his brother to follow their highbrow dreams, which turned out to parallel each other.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• The distinction between highbrow and lowbrow celebrities was once totally uncrossable, but the Bling Ring was obsessed with these second-tier stars.
  — Jessica Goldstein, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
• If the horror movie is at one end of the spectrum of good taste, deafness has also recently been portrayed in highbrow films as well—although with ambiguous relation to deaf culture writ large.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 July 2021
• The highbrow Art Basel fair, known for glamorous parties and celebrity sightings, on Wednesday announced the cancellation of this year’s event amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2020
• This push-pull between highbrow cuisine and down-and-dirty cooking, between the old ways and the new ones, comes at a particularly complicated moment in the history of food culture.
  — Alicia Kennedy, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2022
• There’s a similar highbrow-lowbrow thing going on with the typography.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 18 Mar. 2021
• Kevin is the yin to Raymond’s yang — two men who clearly have similar highbrow tastes and relatively cold demeanors, but also a deep understanding and love for each other.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2021
• Not even Hilary’s two highbrow quotations from Auden and Philip Larkin can compensate for this maudlin social consciousness.
  — Armond White, National Review, 9 Dec. 2022
• The ideas in Hamaguchi’s stories develop emotions — the specter of loneliness — rather than meander toward quizzical, highbrow pathos.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Apr. 2022
• All have the exact kind of highbrow literary credibility that the Swedish Academy once valued.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2019
• For starters, there's celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson's eponymously-named on-site restaurant, which opened in May 2015, where the ethos is happily familiar: Dishes are at once highbrow and flavorful, but without the fuss.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024