Similar to Palin's characterization of climate science as "junk science" by an "environmental priesthood," Soviet geneticists, physicists and chemists were dismissed as "caste priests of ivory-tower bourgeois pseudoscience." ❋ Shawn Lawrence Otto (2011)
How much more proof does the American electorate need to show that President Obama is an elitist, living in an ivory-tower world, with no realistic notion of how to create jobs and help get our economy moving again? ❋ Unknown (2011)
This certainly makes for interesting reading for those who wish to know how the game is played, as this is no armchair ivory-tower historian talking. ❋ Ian Fletcher (2011)
In spite of all the secrecy attached to the work that went on—there were all sorts of signs on walls and desks reminding them to secure safes, file classified papers, lock doors, etc.—there was an ivory-tower unreality to it all. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)
Beyond that, there is D'Souza's loose grasp on factual reality, which, naturally, Steve Forbes -- along with everyone else who is benefitting from the ivory-tower gloss D'Souza is whitewashing their own bigotry with -- is willing to let slip. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
So Bush/Cheney would be allowed to air the successes of their aggressive interrogation techniques; you won't get to try them in the ivory-tower vacuum that you imagine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Perhaps the boy who quotes Orwell should tread lightly when accusing others of lacking real-world experience and being the ivory-tower type. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It doesn't really matter when the actual peak arrives; we can leave that to the ivory-tower types and those with a bent for analytical precision. ❋ Ph.D. Chris Martenson (2010)
I thought you were the one who was always scornful of ivory-tower intellectuals and more interested in practical results. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Despite the encouragement of some ivory-tower liberal commentators, these politicians understand the toxicity of the bill's totality and its price tag. ❋ Karl Rove (2010)
As Black, working-class Jackson has apparently just prevented ivory-tower academic White from jumping in front of an oncoming train hence, the Sunset Limited. ❋ Hank Stuever (2011)
Now ivory-tower intellectuals and symbolists proudly display their "magical seeds" of sustainism. ❋ Michael DeJong (2011)
Yet it doesn't take an ivory-tower scold to object to Deadspin's checkbook journalism. ❋ Howard Kurtz (2010)
You need to understand that you have spent (or should I say, frittered) a good part of your life living an ivory-tower existence that does not truly define the ethos of the city. ❋ Unknown (2010)
