intellectualize

Example Sentences

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“Though it’s abstract, it doesn’t strike me as intellectualized or at all forced,” he says.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

But what “Days” gives us is something that can’t really be intellectualized or even explained: a vision of grace that collapses the boundaries between the real and the fictional, the corporeal and the spiritual.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

“I made some kind of intellectualized comment, and then he said, ‘Can you say it in your own words?’

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

I don’t know the appeal—I’ve not intellectualized it.

From Salon • May 24, 2019

What we call friendly feeling is a less vehement, more intellectualized form of tender feeling.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham