intellectualize
Example Sentences
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Nabers: Episode 6 is a step-out episode that allows us to intellectualize some of the stuff that we’ve seen in a way that we probably haven’t intellectualized before.
From Los Angeles Times
Years later when a therapist told me my tendency was to intellectualize my emotions, this specific incident popped up.
From Salon
“There’s a transcendent wonder in that. You can intellectualize it that way. But it’s also just fun, like, ‘Let’s put some dinosaurs in the movie.’
From Los Angeles Times
“That’s not the lane we go to. We try to intellectualize and come up with policy solutions.”
From New York Times
“I keep thinking that if I read enough about war, and rationalize and intellectualize enough, then something will snap, and the knots will untie and I’ll understand it all,” he said.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
