Classical
Highbrow
Highbrow adjective - Much given to learning and thinking.
Both words in one sentence
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In addition, Alex enjoys classical music and is known to employ gratuitously highbrow words in his vocabulary.
Source: Film / A Clockwork Orange -
The blaxploitation-satire movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka had a TV ad with classical music and a PBS-grade announcer presenting it as a highbrow art film with the title "I Am Going to Get You, Sucker".
Source: It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY -
The rulers of these two islands, the cello queen of symphony and the saxophone king of jazz, are each disdainful of the other; the king views classical music as highbrow and the queen sees jazz as lowbrow.
Source: Star-Crossed Lovers
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