Sentences with phrase «time ivory tower»
Unfortunately, the old «time ivory tower economists have brainwashed our politicians on the subject.
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Sitting in my ivory tower at college, having all the information to hand for grateful admirers to receive from my superiour position to impart or so I thought at the time.
«This is not a time, if you care about the fate of the planet or of our republic, to retreat to the ivory tower,» said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, who also participated in the hour - long session hosted by AAAS on Jan. 26.
A Steven Rose or a Richard Dawkins, coming down from the ivory tower to explain things to lesser mortals, is, other things being equal, a more likely contender for this particular prize than a journalist such as Nigel Henbest or Roger Highfield, devoting themselves full - time to the art of communication.
The purveyors of «value - added measures» claim that with enough data over enough time, you can control for all of those factors, but that's a serious case of ivory tower blindness.
It is time for those in their ivory towers of publishing to pull their heads out of the sand.
Because, as sure as I'm sitting here typing this this morning, I guaran - damn - tee you there is some bean counter sitting in an ivory tower in the publishing industry who is trying to figure out a way to limit the number of times we can read an e-book before we have to buy a new license or something equally as silly.
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.
It is really about time that climate modellers who are posting on this blog came down from their ivory towers and had a look at the real world.
It is good to know that the New York Times is not an ivory tower, it is a pillar in the community.
Are you so high and mighty in your ivory academic tower that us proles are not worth your time?