The sense of humour in the highbrow has become atrophied, or, to vary the metaphor, it is submerged or buried under the accumulated strata of his education, on the top soil of which flourishes a fine growth of conceit.
But even in the highbrow the educated appreciation of humour is there--away down.
Not a highbrow adventure, it is not to be judged by highbrow standards.
Stannard's something of a highbrow and a smart clubman.
Then, if you reckon you're going to get my highbrow English boss for her, you're surely not very bright.
They recently let me join a highbrow mountain club; but when I start for the rocks I hesitate," Deering resumed.
Stannard's a highbrow Englishman," said Deering, but somehow Jimmy thought his remark ironical.
They reckon they're highbrow frontier cavalry and I guess the trooper won't allow a girl held him up.
Deering agreed, but Jimmy thought he hesitated before he resumed: "In some ways, the fellow's the standard type of highbrow Englishman.
I could see him preparin' to swap highbrow chat with Miss Hampton.
Then one night--well, it was at the theater, one of them highbrow Shaw plays that I was chucklin' through with Aunt Zenobia.
That highbrow line might work out in time, but for a quick get-together proposition I'm backin' the dishpan.
Young Nancy was left to those maiden dames at college, who don't know more about a child than is laid down by highbrow officials in the text books they need to study to qualify for their posts.
All your common bughouse phrases make the shrinkinghighbrow tired.
If that's highbrow drama, give me a cow-puncher movie, every time!
What she can't understand is that a fellow practising medicine in a small town like this has got to cut out the highbrow stuff, and not spend all his time going to concerts and shining his shoes.
Gosh, I wish I could appreciate that highbrow art stuff.
You've fussed so much with these fool novels and books and all this highbrow junk----You like to argue!
Just compare a real human like you with these neurotic birds like Lucile McKelvey--all highbrow talk and dressed up like a plush horse!
So I decided to stick to the straight poetic, and I took a shot at a highbrow ad for the Zeeco.
Well, of course, I go to lots of these highbrow concerts, but I do like a good jazz orchestra, right up on its toes, with the fellow that plays the bass fiddle spinning it around and beating it up with the bow.
He doesn't have to call in some highbrow hired-man when it's necessary for him to answer the crooked critics of the sane and efficient life.
Then Chum Frink addressed them: "Some of you may feel that it's out of place here to talk on a strictlyhighbrow and artistic subject, but I want to come out flatfooted and ask you boys to O.
His friends had always congratulated him on his oratory, but in their praise was doubt, for even in speeches advertising the city there was something highbrow and degenerate, like writing poetry.
And here's a novel suggestion from a "highbrow Shortall.
Princeton fellow, had recently studied up the ruins and kept giving information about them in highbrow manner.
Well, let's quit the highbrow field and get down to business," suggested Mr. Perry.
Cub, you're the highbrow of our bunch," said Hal after some moments of puzzled silence.
I thought you were the highbrow of your bunch; but here's our subtle Tee-hee putting a bit of clever phraseology over on you.
He liked to read "highbrow stuff" and reflect and inflict it on such victims as were unable to counter his domination.
I don't believe much in all them highbrow sermons that don't come down to brass tacks--ain't got nothing to do with real folks.
He was excited, yet frightened and resentful at being "dragged into all this highbrow business" which he had resolutely been putting away the past two hours.
Morton had told him these were the chief English "highbrow magazines.
Some ways you're about the best friend I've ever had--you ain't neither too highbrow or too lowbrow.
He was going to "stick it out somehow, and get onto the hang of all this highbrow business.
George Keets really wanted very much to play, I think, but he didn't know exactly how to, so he tried to talk highbrow instead.
Weren't there to be any cakes and ale in New York simply because a highbrow happened to be mayor?
Three days more of highbrow conversation would just about finish her off--she must be stern, very stern, if she would avert the impending disaster!
The highbrow name for the United States malaria distributor is "Anopheles quadrimaculatus" (Fig.
A certain highbrow club called “The 19th Century Club,” whose president was the editor of the Evening Post (a paper neither then nor later always in accord with the ideals and methods of Theodore Roosevelt!
Case of springin' the highbrow chatter on a sportin' chappy that wears a fifteen and a half collar and a six and three-quarters hat," says I.
In spots it listens like highbrow book stuff, and then again it don't.
He tells me he's got something unusual under way, and he wants a highbrow blurb-artist.
Every time somebody puts over some highbrow stuff on him we lose money on it.
Teach me that outlook upon life which the highbrow pragmatists describe as the will to believe, and the low-brow describes as pipe dreams!
I went into Smith's office yesterday with a bit of light verse and had him turn it down because it had the 'highbrow touch.
A man hitting the trail for liberty doesn't use the manners of a highbrow carpet-knight.
You imagine he's something of a highbrow Englishman, rather formal and polite, but he has an eye like a fish-hawk's and his orders go.
Not that I've been givin' my theatrical taste thehighbrow treatment.
They seemed to enjoy it, though, and the first thing I know I'm bein' put through a sort of highbrow third degree, the object being to show up what an empty loft I wear my pink thatch on.
I expect it served me right, cuttin' in abrupt on such a highbrow conversation as that.
The party of the second part was one Hinckley, a young highbrow who knew so much that it took the college faculty a long time to discover that he was worth more'n an assistant bartender and almost as much as a fourth-rate movie actor.
Grand opera is, above all others, the highbrowform of entertainment.
When he sees a highbrow approaching, instead of having it out with him as some of the other types would, he finds he has important business somewhere else.
Such an individual would be a combination of the Alimentive and Cerebral types and would have the Alimentive's fat body with a large highbrow head of the Cerebral.
My dear Mac, if you really want to know what dishonesty in journalism is, worm yourself into the secrets of the highbrow Press and the noble poets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "highbrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
