Lexicographical Neighbors of Highbrowism
Literary usage of Highbrowism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Revolution and the American Democracy: An Interpretation of by Norman Angell (1919)
"The charges of " theorizing " and highbrowism seem to be the expression of
impatience at the introduction of policies not easily defensible in terms of ..."
2. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby (1922)
"Whether his novels and short stories gained by this heroic "highbrowism," is
another question. Certainly they did not always do so. ..."
3. America's place in the surgery of the world by Thomas Stephen Cullen (1916)
"Let us avoid this brand of provincialism or "highbrowism," for that.is what it
amounts to. Let our prophets in our own country come in for their just share ..."
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