Sentences with phrase «more high brow»

Not sure if I'll allow guests posts yet on this one, I have two writers who are doing a great job on it; it needs to be more high brow, intelligent content like BrainPickings.

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That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, compared with mainstream fiction, high - brow literary works do more to improve our ability to understand the thoughts, emotions, and motivations of those around us.

In addition to high - brow philosophies, rigorous yogasana sessions, and intensive meditation, there is much to learn at these training programs about making classes more popular with fun inputs.

Within about a week, you will begin to notice a higher, more youthful - looking brow.

I would compare it to my more high end benefit goof proof brow pencil.

As far as dating sites go, it sells itself as a more high - brow site.

And with such a vast slate of small - screen comedic options — ranging from low - brow to high, broad to eccentrically specific, and including network standouts like Black - ish and cable / streaming gems such as Veep, Insecure, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and many more — it's hard to argue that anyone should spend time or money on this.

It wouldn't be wrong to aspire to something a bit more «high brow» like The Dark Knight, or to try and be less «dumb» in the spectacle like The Avengers or Avatar.

Fortunately, it's really good, providing series creators David Wain and Michael Showalter plenty more room for comedy that flits instantaneously between high - and low - brow, between richly character - based humor and total absurdity.

The Meyerowitz Stories is a casually funny, family drama, where comedians Sandler and Stiller get to flex a more series vein in higher brow material than we typically find them.

If you like your comedy served low - key but high - brow then dive for cover, because «Anchorman» is loud, totally ridiculous and more often than not it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Sure, it's not high brow cinema art, but it's a spectacle, it's fun, and it shows more of the 90s NYC than any other movie I've seen.

Unfortunately it seems almost ubiquitous practice to quote an educationally significant term in the more high - brow supplement of a paper, misuse it or confuse it, mix it with a few facts or quotes and assume it counts as quality reporting.

Readers seem to have short attention spans these days so discovery for more academically minded projects (or «serious» or «literary» or however we are describing high - brow books on a given day) have a big headwind.

The area directly around the station is also home to sex shops and a slightly sketchy scene, though further south things get quieter and more high - brow.

At first, they serviced more «high brow» interests, like beauty products or wine.

It's been seven years since Braid exploded onto the market, and this week its brilliant, reclusive designer is releasing his much anticipated second game: The Witness, a brain - ravaging, mind - spraining epic that has more in common with Finnegans Wake than Grand Theft Auto V. It's billed as a puzzle game, but that hardly does the complexity justice: it's a puzzle game for the mega-brainy and super-cerebral, a puzzle game for gaming's high - brow.

The format of Rythm Mastr, whether as an animated feature, graphic novel, or multi-panel sequence on newsprint, may feel like a departure from Marshall's painting practice, more tethered to pop culture than the high - brow arena where the artist's large - scale works fetch seven figures.

When most of these artists go to art school they're usually forced into the decision of either wiping out their past identity and conforming to the look of «high art», or the more prideful yet limiting path of rejecting the art world entirely and pursuing a more «low brow» art.

It has also garnered more high - brow appreciation: philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek features it prominently in his film The Pervert's Guide to Ideology and novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem has written a book about the film.

JEFFREY DEITCH — That summer I loaded up my van with copper objects and drove around to gift shops in Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard — places where I thought the seasonal tourism was a bit more high - brow.

Sheinkman may be growing more personal, then, but he may also be hinting at less high - brow processes of reproduction.

Second, he set his sights on generating a new set of aesthetics: dissatisfied with intellectual, high - brow fine art (the sort represented by abstract expressionism and classical sculpture), he wanted to promote more accessible types of art, made from everyday objects, which ordinary people could relate to without difficulty.

The differences between pop and underground culture, between high and low brow, became more obscured than ever before, causing not only confusion, but also a hearth for new creative practices.

After giving a print to the participants, she will print 5 6 more and will print at least 100 people's eyebrows to make into a limited edition leather - bound artist book titled «High Brow.»

At the end of the show perhaps the spectator's knee - jerk reaction to CREED's homespun philosophy is a grunt that his work is no more than a nonsensical mockery of art, nevertheless it is precisely what CREED takes on his mantle to explore: how the socially pre-fixed stance to experiencing art (as a high brow event) interferes with the onlooker's evaluation of the spectacle.

Faculty teaching more traditional literary authors (read high - brow) might have scoffed and waived Steinbeck off as a mere author of children's books.