intellectualize

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German Theologian Helmut Thielicke feels that contemporary efforts to demythologize the Gospel may produce "overintellectualized" theologies comprehensible only to doctoral students in philosophy.

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Rather than inveighing against traditionalism, as radicals are supposed to do, Glass was in revolt against radicalism itself: the overintellectualized and emotionally arid music that had dominated contemporary composition for decades.

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As befits the outlook of an editor of satire, it contains no awed descriptions of intimate meetings with famous people; as an intellectual confession it confesses nothing but disrespect for overintellectualized confessions.

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Those who did, some Frenchmen began to think, received such an overintellectualized brand of instruction that they emerged unfit for the day-today lives that most of them would lead.

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Challenging comparison with The Scarlet Letter in its theme, it is obviously pale, frail, overintellectualized beside Hawthorne's masterpiece.

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