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
“I think I was trying to intellectualize my feelings to get away from being vulnerable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
“I could intellectualize it to no end,” Kasdan said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
They can afford to intellectualize what for us is an existential threat.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2020
How people who can’t face their own negative emotions intellectualize things?
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
They must have included outrage, fury, a scalding humiliation, possibly even thoughts of recrimination, but they remain private until they are intellectualized in talk the next day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 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
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. 17, 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
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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