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
I’m a psychologist and so the way I manage any negative feelings is to intellectualize: I think about the causes and context of a situation.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
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 ● Mar. 17, 2023
“I could intellectualize it to no end,” Kasdan said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
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
“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
The catharsis that horror can provide now travels on a second and more intellectualized rail.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2016
The moral atmosphere again was critical and highly intellectualized.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
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. 18, 2022
I was spiraling about what it all meant, intellectualizing my grief into metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 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
Schoenberg was never the most instinctive and sensible, the least cerebral and intellectualizing of musicians.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
