Noun:

ಐವರಿ ಟವರ್,

ivory tower's Usage Examples:

According to The New York Times,It's not just another episode of the learned cosmopolitan descending from the ivory tower to produce anthropological discourses on that strange creature known as the Trump voter and make it back to the big city in time for a martini.

"Lock up those "peaceniks" in the ivory tower".

There followed, according to Beard, “a torrent of aggressive insults, on everything from my historical competence and elitist ivory tower viewpoint to my age, shape and gender [batty old broad, obese, etc etc].

Lu Ping (Chinese: 吕频), a feminist activist, argued that Zhou’s words “was not only ignorant about women, but also contained an arrogant attitude from his ivory tower.

The biographer Hua-ling Hu writes that, while at Ginling College, Minnie attempted to lead the students to fulfill the spirit of Ginling's motto, 'abundant life,' by making them walk out of the 'ivory tower' to see and understand the suffering of the poor and by encouraging them to devote their lives for the betterment of the society.

An ivory tower is a metaphorical place—or an atmosphere—where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world in favor of their own pursuits, usually.

What's more, she does so as a Muslim, not as a Westernized woman preaching from the pulpit of a feminist ivory tower.

Synonyms:

cognitive state, state of mind,

Antonyms:

consciousness, unconsciousness, inwardness,