Sentences with phrase «ivory towers do»

My husband and I learned that two ivory towers do not a happy marriage make.

i want them in the ivory tower doing stuff with no interference no drive for consensus or a «final answer»

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You don't want it to be dismissed as an ivory tower exercise.

Come down from the ivory towers and mingle with the masses, listen to them, you will be surprised how much you may learn about what works and what doesn't.»

Living our faith isn't something done from an ivory tower.

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

An atheist is like a tick on the ass of a miscoscopic leech with it's head buried in a tick turd, living inside of the intestines of a ivory tower educator, standing up on his tiny little soap box and pretending that people don't exist.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

Some NGOs sit in their ivory towers thinking they are doing good, but how many of them give people the dignity of attention and choice?»

Several of the chapters were encouragement and insightful, but many of the other chapters seemed to have been written by ivory - tower scholars who do not seem to be aware of the sin and violence that lurks at the door of most people's daily existence.

You're much more likely to find a nun in a soup kitchen than an ivory tower, doing things that any human with a shred of empathy, religious or otherwise, would approve of.

You're saying, the only venting allowed is up to the point where it doesn't threaten your ivory tower.

Catholics and other Christians too can look to Mary, just as her child Jesus did, and see in her purity and chastity a verification of the ideals of the Jewish tradition of «tower of David, tower of ivory, house of gold, ark of the covenant.»

I don't get why these celebrities / athletes that are living in their ivory towers thing their opinions on our lives are more valid than their own.

unt, so anything we can do to make them feel our frustration from their ivory towers is welcome in my book, especially with an owner like silent Stan Kroenke who has all the warmth and charm of a week old kipper.

How do you know what works best if you impose one approach from the ivory tower of Washington?

Let's step up to the plate together Ms Ghose and have a debate or do you too refuse to engage with reformers, preferring instead to sit in your academic ivory tower?

«She only recently landed here from Brooklyn and will do anything — even mangle the truth — to win a seat in Congress to achieve her ivory - tower view of America.

I - and I think Wheeler - want to vote Tory in the euro elections but if Cameron doesn't get out of his ivory tower soon, I'll vote UKIP (while holding my nose)

The results don't just reveal the Wiki - habits of the ivory tower.

One advantage a commercial agency would have is that they are unlikely to have much insight into what academics do, so it will give you an idea of how you need to present yourself outside the ivory tower.

These articles will help you thrive — and show you what mistakes to avoid — when you choose to deal with the world outside the ivory tower (and when you don't have any choice).

Little did he realize it would catapult him from his scientific ivory tower into the heated fray of homosexual politics.

And, although he does not anticipate «a gush» of new positions, Goldin says academic job prospects for physicists are «looking better» than they have in recent lean years — not only because of faculty retirement but also because fewer physicists are choosing to remain in the ivory tower, meaning less competition for openings.

«Scientist have to leave the ivory tower to impact on society, but to do so credibly, advice must be based on sound, ethical and humane science.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

Ultimately, the restless movement here doesn't help the «classical» tracks connect to a non-specialized audience, but it does make for an inventive dialogue between the club and the ivory tower.

Louder Than a Bomb DVD Review by Kam Williams Rhyme Doc Chronicles Chicago Poetry Slam Does the hip - hop style of rhyming and its down - to - earth subject - matter about life in the «hood deserve the same respect as the classical couplets of Keats and other lofty lyricists whose work benefits from ivory - towered academia's stamp of approval?

We're in an ivory tower; we don't have impact on legislation — it's very hard to do,» Gardner says.

We have discovered that abstractionin education, while favored bythe ivory tower, doesn't really work thatwell for most kids.

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 and tools new teachers need in order to do their work well.

Such people do not live in «ivory towers.»

Even after years and years of saying, «You don't make your gross income, you and the tax man make your gross income,» no one in the ivory towers has woken up to this reality.

Why do ivory tower academics get into policy positions, in this case assuming that forward rates forecast future economic activity?

How else do you think they grew up to be «too big to fail,» can afford billions in TV ads, and have huge gold - plated ivory - tower offices fully - staffed with expensive employees?

That's all that an ivory tower, dry - as - dust academic study can do.

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

But I'm not doing this because I'm any kind of ivory - tower academic or a starry - eyed idealist.

MH: In your book German Expressionist Painting, you quote Kokoschka: «Expressionism does not live in an ivory tower.»

«Even though Cy might have been regarded as reclusive, he didn't retreat to an ivory tower.

Because I was academically trained and having that kind of background can be a kind of ivory - towered, siloed feeling at times, I didn't really think about painting in that way until later, in contrast to seeing that the world was happening, seeing what artists were actually doing, and experiencing all of the crossover that was going on.

Universities in the developed world seeking a place (and a business model) in a century in which knowledge is no longer cached in ivory towers would do well to find ways to «educate for the other 90 percent.»

So, was these two examples you just game really non-collegial, Don Don, or is it something else, like, I don't know, for instance that when some «ivory tower» guy speaks of denial makies you blow a fuse, a fuse you need to defuseafterwards?

The Guardian makes the point that they don't want scientists to go back into the ivory tower if their views are misrepresented.

«They sit in this ivory tower, playing around, and they don't tell us if this is going to be a hot summer coming up.

I read that as saying that unless someone has lived on the island of ivory towers, they don't know enough to make a definitive statement about scientific malfeasance done by those that do live there.

Maybe I'm too ivory tower, but I just don't like his schtick.

In the meantime though we've got to work on the problem of global warming alarmists being paid by the rest of us to do nothing more than gnash their teeth in the ivory towers.

So I find it rather bizarre that people here are lamenting about the alleged «ivory tower» in climate science, yet here you are here claiming that someone with «only» a MSc and no prior publications is incapable of doing research.

This requires a rethinking of what it is the «expert» is really doing for the public — and the best kind of expert is the one who helps you understand how they came to their conclusions, not the one who delivers said conclusions from on high in the ivory tower, with no questions allowed.