The elitist urban culture and the European theatre of the economically powerful minority fashioned itself around European models.

In its heyday - before the radio, phonograph and television brought orchestras and operas into every living room - classical music was a precinct of elitist high culture.

Will French artists and creators ever bridge the gap between elitist culture and popular entertainment?

Thus the former Marxists arrive at an uncritical praise of the elitist and antirevolutionary upper-class culture.

Historians prefer to speak of a parallel development of popular and "elitist" cultures.

It arises not from an elitist, hyperrationalist culture, like that of France, but from a home-grown antielitist, antirationalist, anti-intellectual one.

The NEA does still support some elitist high culture, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Seattle Opera.

In subsequent speeches, Palin has cast herself as an antidote to the élitist culture inside the Beltway.

Art in Istanbul began to be seen as having an analytical role, rather than just being an elitist culture concerned only with aesthetics.

Pop art employs images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art.