ivory tower

And its not like I live or work in an ivory tower of any kind.

"You just have to go out from the ivory tower to where the real life is taking place."

Do they live in the real world or ivory towers?

The members of the commission live in an ivory tower.

The concept of the ivory tower has been around a long time, too.

"I think education schools have too often become ivory towers," he said.

Think about it while you're sitting up there in your ivory tower when you get back.

Others said they reflected an ivory tower view of the world.

Here, too, the Commission does not work in an ivory tower.

I am throwing myself out of the ivory tower next month.

I think we should have a big gathering of all the very important people who live in the ivory tower.

But Herb is different because he's not in some ivory tower.

An ivory tower is not the right metaphor for a school of business administration.

The time is past when researchers could sit in their ivory towers.

Master plans went out the window of many an ivory tower.

But when the explosion comes, you're likely to feel it even in your ivory tower.

"The school was an ivory tower for me," she said.

So this book didn't come out of an ivory tower.

"Yeah, right, what does the princess from the ivory tower know about something like this?"

But here and at every other British university, the ivory tower is tumbling down.

Now to return to my dusty library at the top of the ivory tower.

"For a product of an ivory tower, you sound more like a hit man from Detroit."

Many people in their 20's and 30's also question whether the ivory tower is the place to learn about the emerging Internet world.

That's going to do wonders for their ivory tower complex, I must say.

But the significance of these cases reaches far beyond the ivory tower.