Fig.: the aristocratic condition of isolation and distance from worldly or practical matters, typical of intellectuals

You are living in an ivory tower if you think you can ignore the fact that the whole world is being endangered by pollution

Non puoi chiuderti in una torre d'avorio e ignorare il fatto che l'inquinamento sta mettendo in pericolo il mondo intero

The original term appears to have been the French Tour d'ivoire first used by the French literary critic Sainte-Beuve referring to the French writer Alfred Comte de Vigny, who secluded himself in a tower to write his books