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Meanings of ivory tower in English

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Usage of ivory tower in English
1
There was no chance of an ivory tower existing in the tropics.
Anil's ghost
2
We cannot always sit in an ivory tower, looking stern and omniscient.
The Irish Times
3
The telcos, for their part, are an ivory tower under protracted seige.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
4
It wasn't like I lived in an ivory tower or Bag End.
Changes
5
Australian cricket has been in an ivory tower for too long, he said.
Radio NZ
6
Religion was visibly under attack in the elitist circles of the ivory tower.
Feminist dot com
7
You need to get out of your ivory tower a little more often.
Fire With Fire
8
Policy making is not done in an ivory tower in Brussels.
The Irish Times
9
But there can be no suggestion it is exercised from an ivory tower.
The Irish Times
10
She could never now, with a tranquil heart, go into the ivory tower.
The Brimming Cup
11
It seemed to me he was still in some kind of ivory tower.
A colossal failure of common sense: the inside story of the coll...
12
Had I had been living in suburbia and the ivory tower far too long?
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
13
He was by no means a typical ivory tower intellectual.
The Guardian
14
She added: It is not an ivory tower for councillors.
BBC
15
I felt a twinge of nostalgia for the ivory tower.
I shot you babe
16
A princess in an ivory tower, that's what I am.
Second glance
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