Sentences with phrase «ivory tower intellectuals»

«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.

In fact, people often think of Newman as an ivory tower intellectual who did little practical work.

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Former nagging questions of the meaning and verifiability of religious language a language thought to be totally inapplicable to ordinary experience — now seemed themselves to be anachronistic questions, reflective of ivory - tower intellectuals or academics quite out of touch with vast ranges of ordinary experience.

Labour is two - faced: sometimes it's the trade union rep from the factory, others it's the intellectual bourgeois from the ivory towers.

I was also pleased to hear about their Legal Residency Program which is a spectacular idea to help law schools actually produce «practice - ready» graduates instead of just ivory - tower intellectuals.