Translations for „highbrow“ in the English » German Dictionary

I . ˈhigh·brow ADJ

1. highbrow (intellectual):

highbrow newspaper, readers

anspruchsvoll

highbrow culture

anspruchsvolle Kulturangebote pl

2. highbrow pej (overly intellectual):

highbrow literature

hochgeistig

highbrow assumption

arrogante Ansicht

highbrow intellectuals

hochgestochene Intellektuelle pej inf

highbrow speech

hochgestochenes Gerede pej inf

II . ˈhigh·brow N esp pej

highbrow

Intellektuelle(r) f(m)

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

highbrow culture

anspruchsvolle Kulturangebote pl

highbrow intellectuals

hochgestochene Intellektuelle pej inf

highbrow speech

hochgestochenes Gerede pej inf

highbrow assumption

arrogante Ansicht

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

It is relatively culturally disengaged with both highbrow and emerging culture.

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But when they were asked to pick a movie to be watched at later date, highbrow movies were chosen far more often.

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Space opera subgenre was less developed, because both state censors and highbrow intelligentsia writers watched it unfavorably.

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New affluent workers score high on emerging cultural capital, but low on highbrow cultural capital.

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His work has been praised for its language simultaneously urban and highbrow snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.

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The upper-middlebrow's arts patronage makes highbrow activity possible.

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His ideas were either too expensive or too highbrow for company tastes.

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Scores on highbrow cultural capital are moderate, and scores on emerging cultural capital are particularly low.

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Interest in either highbrow or emerging cultural capital is low.

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A lip-synching hall of mirrors, it is essentially a piece of highbrow karaoke...

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