intellectualize
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Kris can intellectualize her “Camp Miasma” fandom all she wants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“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
They can afford to intellectualize what for us is an existential threat.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2020
“We can talk about these issues, intellectualize, but to see, actually see . . .”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2019
How people who can’t face their own negative emotions intellectualize things?
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
“Don’t say that,” jokes Gerwig at the implication of the film’s more intellectualized leanings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
“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
“We have so intellectualized our faith—there’s a need to bring head, heart, and body into the forefront of our lives, for the future of the Christian tradition.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
In adapting the new revelation to the conditions of life on the physical plane, it is intellectualized and theologized.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
“We see them as intellectualizing or sanitizing radical-right ideas that are then taken up by the parties in power,” said Allchorn, the U.K. extremism expert.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
“There wasn’t a lot of intellectualizing going on when we started,” Johansen said in “Please Kill Me,” Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s seminal 1996 oral history of punk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2021
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
Even the punk references — and there are always references to punk in fashion — were more focused on intellectualizing disruption, on considering the craftsmanship and taking the long view.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2017
The higher we go in intellectualizing ourselves, the closer we draw to the cosmic consciousness, and the more familiar we become with its laws.
From Freedom Talks No. II by Julia Seton M.D.
