Sentences with phrase «ivory tower»
The medium can take information that is too often stuck in ivory towers and project it into hearts and minds everywhere.
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Maintaining the focus has created the impression of ivory tower academics who refuse to engage.
My husband and I learned that two ivory towers do not a happy marriage make.
I wonder if any of these atheists have ever left their comfy ivory towers before and seen the realities of life.
And they tend to prefer not to work within ivory towers but to engage with the educational community to actually create change out in the field.
People who work in administration roles may not be making big decisions in ivory towers, but without admin staff no business would be able to function.
It must speak not merely from ivory towers, but from the marketplace.
Some people roll their eyes when ivory tower academics talk theory.
(But it might get you a nice «genius» grant from academic ivory tower types who enjoy such apocalyptic blather.)
Conflating the way adults work with how children learn best is being pushed by ivory tower reformers who are completely detached from the realities of child development and classroom (group) dynamics.
That's not ivory tower thinking.
If Niblett's purpose was solely focused on ivory towers and navel - gazing Chatham House wouldn't get far.
Instead we listen to food gurus and ivory tower theorists who promote the consumption of raw and unprocessed «whole foods;» or, we eat a lot of high - phytate foods like commercial whole wheat bread and all - bran breakfast cereals.
«With our primary win behind us, the next phase begins and it's one that must be won if we are to change the terrible trajectory that the progressive left elitists and ivory tower intellectuals are taking this country.
For too long the vast majority of pre-service programs have failed to address the core competencies of the profession, focused as they are upon ivory tower approaches and research rather than the practical skills andread more
Not always bad things (like totalitarianism or fundamentalism), ideologies occupy the space between ivory tower ideas and day - to - day politics and thus come in many forms — speeches, slogans and sermons.
On another track, Addica, dominating a feature - length commentary he recorded with Marsh, pulls a Wayne Kramer, accusing critics of living in ivory towers whilst pretentiously likening the film's slow - burn intensity to that of A Clockwork Orange, Badlands, and Le Samourai.
FIC is the currently preferred nomenclature among ivory tower types.
This tenuous argument would only hold if the current school attendance arrangement was anything close to the wide - ranging intra-district choice ivory tower civil rights activists proclaimed it to be.
A movement that brings back investing to the masses, taking it off from the restricted and secluded VC ivory towers.
Perhaps Richard John Neuhaus has been in the New York ivory tower too long and could benefit from a stint in a parish ministry.
We are the proverbial ivory tower.»
As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $ 1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost?
Unfortunately, the old «time ivory tower economists have brainwashed our politicians on the subject.
But one needn't turn to ivory tower elites — relativism has entered popular culture.
These changes, once implemented, could whittle away a researcher's ivory tower independence, Markl concedes.
No one measures up to their expectations, so they get to be thoroughly fabulous, in the isolated ivory tower, looking down on a sea of flawed people, dating no one... (also not sexy...)
Als rolls out this moniker to men who have been shaped by the object in question — insider - outsider figures who suffer and excel in such ivory towers, or have endeavoured to build their own.
You may think the Five Freedoms are just ivory tower concepts — nice to think about, but not really applicable to your day - to - day work.
Instead of holing themselves up in branded ivory towers, pioneering companies are redefining their relationships with consumers to form an active collaboration with them or other independent partners.
«Prof. Siegel's ivory tower again lacks common sense.
A typical, arrogant, ivory tower egghead.
What he can not do is to retreat to sonic ivory tower of routine without continuing to appraise the human welfare significance of what he is doing.
But I very much doubt that in this day, save among the very few people who manage to live in splendid isolation from the world in some kind of private ivory tower, people are really as self - satisfied as that.
of life experience, being actually involved in people's lives does much to ratify what you have learned and believe or,... expose much academic ivory tower bs.
he sounds like a perfect ivory tower: «who the f *** are you plebs to demand change or improvement?
He's got the unions on his side, and he knows that's worth more than whatever the 800 ivory tower liberals in New York think about him.»
«I need to go and warm my yeast», he blinks innocuously, bustling back into his lab, where he toils night and day on his «quest for sense» while the world crumbles around his sulphurous ivory tower.
One of the most damaging charges levelled at Labour at present is that its leader looks and sounds like an other - worldly professor stuck in his North London ivory tower.
Little did he realize it would catapult him from his scientific ivory tower into the heated fray of homosexual politics.