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 Translation for 'highbrow' from English to Russian
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NOUN   a highbrow | highbrows
SYNO highbrow | highbrowed
высокоумный {adj} [книжн. ирон.]highbrow
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Translation for 'highbrow' from English to Russian

highbrow
высокоумный {adj} [книжн. ирон.]
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Usage Examples English
  • LeRoy and producer Sydney Franklin made a genuine effort to make the "highbrow" subject of the film – the heroic discovery of radium isotopes – engaging to the public, resorting to romanticizing and simplifying the topic.
  • Pops orchestras are generally organised in large cities and are distinct from the more "highbrow" symphony or philharmonic orchestras which also may exist in the same city.
  • He spent summers in Tulsa and cites experiences traveling there via Route 66 as inspirations for his work, which combines highbrow and lowbrow elements.
  • Nonetheless, there were some positive reviews. "Rhinoceros Entertainment" wrote that while the film wasn't highbrow, it satisfied most of its audience with a story grounded in their everyday lives.
  • The saga is noted for its scholarly, highbrow style.

  • The piece, headlined, "Fancifying," is about Americans' desire to use highbrow language and how this often results in incorrect usage.
  • The show consists of several rounds which are as follows: here each contestant is given a short clue to a question and are then asked if they want to answer a highbrow or a lowbrow question based on the clue.
  • Launched in 1969 by Sveriges Radio, the channel was until the 1990s the most watched in Sweden for many years, but now serves as SVT's specialist television network, carrying more highbrow and minority programming compared to the more mainstream SVT1.
  • "Hirculops cornifer", the highbrow rockskipper, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the western Indian ocean.
  • The channel has a focus on culture and arts and offers highbrow programming.

  • and putting "highbrow performance in backstreet pubs and lowbrow performance in posh theatres".
  • In time the station became regarded as a populist, conservative counterpart to the more highbrow and liberal Thames; hardly the BBC2-like ideal that Frost and Peacock had envisioned.
  • "Fantasia" was marketed to highbrow music fans; the Looney Tunes staff responded by violating the ivory tower of classical music and concert hall culture.
  • First used in the British satire magazine "Punch" in 1925, the term "middlebrow" is the intellectual, intermediary "brow" between the "highbrow" and the "lowbrow" forms of culture; the terms "highbrow" and "lowbrow" are borrowed from the pseudoscience of phrenology.
  • Highbrow Lowbrow ("first played on Series 2, Episode 2"): The players are given two questions with the same answer; however, one of them is highbrow (a more academic question) and the other is lowbrow (a more pop culture question).

  • TSW also specialised in making relatively highbrow programmes for the region; in the arts world, it produced documentaries showcasing amongst others, leading concert pianist Moura Lympany, potter Bernard Leach, and sculptor Barbara Hepworth.
  • "Publishers Weekly" described it as a "fusion of highbrow theory and pulp pornography"; their critic found it "occasionally tedious" but OK for fans of Kathy Acker or Robert Coover.
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