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
You can sit back afterward and intellectualize everything, but when you’re watching it, even when it’s weird, it makes logical sense.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025
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 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
Elsewhere Lowell has given another admirable definition: "Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals of thought."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
My advice, when you visit this show, is to set aside the Wolfgang Tillmans “Reader” and forget about intellectualizing the ’90s, and let the photographs simply wash over you.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
Putting all intellectualizing aside for a moment, the main reason “Peacemaker” succeeds is because it remembers to have a good time while delivering a satisfying wallop to people that we can universally agree are terrible.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2022
I was spiraling about what it all meant, intellectualizing my grief into metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
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
