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
Levi doesn’t intellectualize it like that, doesn’t have a straightforward intention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
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
“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
The innocence of the character is oftentimes intellectualized away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2017
But for actors like Liam Craig, who encountered Mr. Bayes as an N.Y.U. graduate student in 1997, the training provides a vital counterbalance to intellectualized acting.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2016
And looked at as an exercise of mental power courage must always be greater than the most highly intellectualized form of fear or despair.
From Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers
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
The actual backstage behavior of the alternative era was another story, obviously, and a lot of bad behavior was justified by intellectualizing shock tactics as “transgressive.”
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2019
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
In St. Thomas Aquinas this intellectualizing process marked its highest point and beyond there was no margin of safety.
From Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard
