| There was a time when modern art was nobody's idea of fun. The lowbrows thought it was boring. The highbrows thought it was serious. |
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| After a summer that has found all the highbrows giggling at the fact they liked Peter Frampton all along, here comes a real guilty pleasure. |
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| What the highbrows seemingly fail to realize is that low culture always has been and always will be there, just as high culture has and will be. |
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| According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities. |
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| They think that, like the hicks of Holcomb and the fawning highbrows of Manhattan's literary salons, we will be won over by his wit and charm. |
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| Perhaps worse still, it has also been relentlessly over-analyzed by film highbrows. |
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| This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity. |
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| You're left with a notebook page of highbrows, scribbled in a crabbed hand. |
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| I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. |
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| The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find. |
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| So highbrows think I'm shallow, and everyone else thinks I'm pretentious. |
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| How peculiar if embarrassment turns out to be the reason why us sensitive, Luddite, technophobe highbrows finally give in and join the digital revolution. |
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| Rand liked to shock highbrows by sticking up for Mickey Spillane, supposedly for his unfashionable belief in clear-cut good versus clear-cut evil. |
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| Even British highbrows could eventually come round. |
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| He thought I was uppity and mixing with highbrows or something. |
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| It might be thought that this passion for precision is all very well for the highbrows of the concert stage, but that it has no place among the free spirits of popular music. |
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| It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another. |
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