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The ivory-towered CEO gets a lesson in pathos to great dramatic and personal effect.

Benyamin Cohen: The Schadenfreude of CBS' Undercover Boss 2010

The ivory-towered CEO gets a lesson in pathos to great dramatic and personal effect.

The Schadenfreude of CBS' Undercover Boss Benyamin Cohen 2010

"The perception of Ph.D. s is ivory-towered, egghead intellectuals who can't hold a 'real' job and get their hands dirty," says the attorney, who works on a contract basis with a San Francisco, Calif., law firm and as an adjunct professor.

Undervaluing Your Worth 2010

And before I get my coat, I take back everything I said about Alex Massie being an ivory-towered ponce.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

Enter into the fray the long-running battle between ivory-towered academics who believe that only through research will people find the most effective forms of treatment, and clinicians, who believe that the real world is a bit more complex and messy than most research takes into account.

Dr. John Grohol: Psychology Holy Wars 2009

And that with my little crew, we take on fifty or sixty armed Nazis, so that you and a bunch of ivory-towered theorists can dig up a car and a murder victim…maybe.

Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007

We fight things we could learn from, locking our potential for growth and relevance inside an ivory-towered idealism.

Reposition Yourself T.D. Jakes 2007

The Canada Council is not created for the benefit of any artificially selected group of people who are less than life size; it is not the exclusive preserve, believe me, of faddists, ivory-towered dreamers, highly specialized scholars of esoteric subjects.

Trustees of One Hundred Million Dollars 1959

The Cardinal last competed in a major bowl after the 1999 season, and there are those who believe that this season's team is bumping up against an ivory-towered ceiling.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed KAREN CROUSE 2011

The Cardinal last competed in a major bowl after the 1999 season, and there are those who believe that this season's team is bumping up against an ivory-towered ceiling.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed KAREN CROUSE 2011