intellectualize
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Rogozhin implies that while Westerners merely intellectualize doubt, Russians possess a total, unyielding nihilism—a ne plus ultra of unbelief, with no way back to faith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
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
“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 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
In Donne poetry became deeply intellectualized, and in temper disquisitive and introspective.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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
“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
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
We shall in the next section examine this point of view in more detail; we are referring to it here simply as an illustration of intellectualizing of morals.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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