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
Levi doesn’t intellectualize it like that, doesn’t have a straightforward intention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
“We can talk about these issues, intellectualize, but to see, actually see . . .”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2019
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
If creating doesn’t have that playful factor, if it doesn’t translate honesty, then it becomes so intellectualized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
“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
Of these the second seems to the present compiler the best; being, indeed, more intellectualized and subtle than the first and less mannered and obscure than the final one.
From One Hundred Best Books by John Cowper Powys
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
“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
“I don’t think there was much intellectualizing about why we did it; it was just instinctual,” Zvibleman said.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2019
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.
