What is "ivory towers"

Usage examples of "ivory towers".

But the ancient philosopher had also hinted at the existence of other Cogitors, isolated thinkers who chose to live in their metaphorical ivory towers, paying no attention to the struggle that raged across the Galaxy.

In the absence of the Ivory Towers teleological salon, hed established a mobile chain of command that served the same exclusive purpose of limiting direct access to him.

Now, in the purple night, ivory towers with corbeled arches and golden-finialed domes pierced the sky in silent stillness.

Within those walls ivory towers thrust into the night, and golden-finialed purple domes were one with the dark amethystine sky.

They lived in ivory towers and contemplated, rarely bothering to note the superficial relationships and events of the mundane world.

Somehow she couldn't picture the Englishman Hunt or the American she had met in Houston as fugitives who would idle their lives away tinkering in ivory towers.

Mihal disdained ivory towers, but he was an idealist nonetheless, and his job was to bring comfort to God's downtrodden children.

Jedi that live in ivory towers might be more dangerous than no Jedi at all.

They jerked themselves off in their ivory towers and thought that would be enough.