ivory tower

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As if in his ivory tower, retired before noon.

As if in his ivory tower, retired before noon.

Synonyymisanakirja

ivory tower

kognitiivinen tila, mielentila, norsunluutorni.

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ivory tower rimmaa näiden kanssa:

weber, freelancer, cheerleader, outsider, loafer, schäfer, penger, suojapenger, rantapenger, tiepenger...

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Englannin sanakirja

ivory tower (englanti > suomi)

1. norsunluutorni

ivory tower englanniksi

1. puhekieltä A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.

2. 2005 — Daniel Walker, s:Valedictory, Hamilton College, 2005|Valedictory speech for Hamilton College

Hamilton College is an ivory tower with an open bar, and so I - who work and play equally hard - have come to love this place, and have been dead-set against leaving it.

3. (quote-magazine)

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4. Separated from reality and practical matters; overly academic.

5. 1968, New Library World, Volumes 69-70, https://books.google.com/books?id=FR3yAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+very+ivory+tower%22&dq=%22a+very+ivory+tower%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZFLNVMXZDISLgwTj34KgDg&ved=0CGEQ6AEwDg page 8:

The majority of librarians appear to have shown a very ivory tower approach to the application of all types of management technique to librarianship.

6. 1995, Hearings relating to Madison Guaranty S&L and the Whitewater Development Corporation, Washington, DC phase, https://books.google.com/books?id=VauFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22a+very+ivory+tower%22&dq=%22a+very+ivory+tower%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZFLNVMXZDISLgwTj34KgDg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBQ page 504:

I must say that, with all due respect, I think that's a very ivory tower approach.

7. 2007, Joan Gorham, Annual Editions: Mass Media 07/08, https://books.google.com/books?id=-KHhAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+very+ivory+tower%22&dq=%22a+very+ivory+tower%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZFLNVMXZDISLgwTj34KgDg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBw page 158:

Bob Woodruff, an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who arrived in New Orleans the Wednesday after the storm hit, calls the detached-observer ideal "a very ivory tower notion that's not practiced in the field."

8. 2004, Geoffrey Kabaservice, The Guardians, https://books.google.com/books?id=wf-WC2xjO4sC&lpg=PA154&dq=%22the%20most%20ivory%20tower%22&pg=PA154v=onepage&q=%22the%20most%20ivory%20tower%22&f=false page 154:

Griswold was perhaps the most ivory tower president of Yale in the twentieth century, and in many ways the university turned toward conservatism in the decade after his inauguration, in 1950.

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