live in an ivory tower
live in one's ivory tower

The members of the commission live in an ivory tower.

The Commission is living in an ivory tower.

"Living in an ivory tower has its points.

He was a remarkable scholar who lived in an ivory tower, away from the masses and unreachable even by his admirers.

Mr. Gore suggested that his rival was living in an ivory tower and lacked the know-how to get things done.

We ate and taught and breathed it, and I lived in an ivory tower."

"Fashion designers can't be these cold, bloodless, aloof creatures with good taste, living in an ivory tower," Mr. Mizrahi said, despite how they are often portrayed.

It seems to me that if analysts are to be effective, and effective means to be objective and independent, they cannot live in an ivory tower or an isolation booth."

"You cannot run a complex, continentwide education system through micromanagement by people living in an ivory tower at the Department of Education in Washington," Mr. Horne said.

"The Supreme Court is living in an ivory tower," said James Dowd, chairman of the Monmouth County Republican Party in New Jersey.

He sees the Ultimate X-Men as decadent Uncle Tom-like figures and has accused them of living in an ivory tower, considering themselves separate from "second-class muties" like himself.

"Most of the people in the village say that NYRA lives in an ivory tower," said Mr. Whalen from Floral Park, whose father was a blacksmith at the track.

Brad J. Pierce, president of the Association for Mountain Parks, Protection and Enjoyment, also a citizens' group, countered: "This study was prepared by academics who live in an ivory tower.

Also, you would get a glimpse of various sides of Trantor and that too would be helpful-certainly more helpful than living in an ivory tower on a far-off planet, surrounded entirely by fellow mathematicians.

Apparently, Vivian Gornick has been living in an ivory tower for so long that she considers conversations with fellow academics to represent the public at large ("Who Says We Haven't Made a Revolution?"

Although planners of the day wanted new towns they were busy dealing with the demand for suburbs: "it is difficult for a technician to earn a living in an ivory tower" Moreover, new towns required government direction which was beyond the scope of municipal powers alone.

Stevenson, realizing the don lives in an ivory tower, gives the don an ultimatum: The story will be in the press, assuring a thumping Labour victory in the election now only days away (and the professor's arrest), unless the professor kills himself by Friday, four days before the election.

"It's not a surprise to me or to others who don't live in an ivory tower or a monastery, or, I am sure, to your lordship, to learn that quite a lot of people, men and women, have a fascinated interest in this sort of thing," he told the judge, Mr Justice Eady.