intellectualize
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“If you’re able to intellectualize that information and verbalize, this isn’t for you,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
I’m a psychologist and so the way I manage any negative feelings is to intellectualize: I think about the causes and context of a situation.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
Martiel doesn’t intellectualize slavery’s wake; instead, he makes it terribly present, in the body of a living person: his own.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2024
Levi doesn’t intellectualize it like that, doesn’t have a straightforward intention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Similar to many of the other methods, the Orff Schulwerk emphasizes that children should experience first and then analyze or intellectualize about music afterwards, and encourages hands-on music-making regardless of skill level.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
“I think we’ve intellectualized jazz down to the bone, but I think that R&B is as formative to our being.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
“Though it’s abstract, it doesn’t strike me as intellectualized or at all forced,” he says.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
I don’t know the appeal—I’ve not intellectualized it.
From Salon ● May 24, 2019
The catharsis that horror can provide now travels on a second and more intellectualized rail.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2016
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
I was spiraling about what it all meant, intellectualizing my grief into metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
“I don’t think there was much intellectualizing about why we did it; it was just instinctual,” Zvibleman said.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2019
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
Eventually, you both look at the wall, admiringly, and realize intellectualizing is futile.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2016
Schoenberg was never the most instinctive and sensible, the least cerebral and intellectualizing of musicians.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
