ivory-tower

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ivory-tower

adjective

Incapable of dealing efficiently with practical matters:

impractical.

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"In September 2002," writes UN Undersecretary-General for Communications Shashi Tharoor in the September/October Foreign Affairs, "a radical new document declared that 'no nation can build a safer, better world alone.' These words came not from some utopian internationalist or ivory-tower academic, but from the new National Security Strategy [NSS] of the United States.