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
Sit in the building that originated “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” and you feel a certain pressure to intellectualize your ideas, to overstress your originality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
He did not intellectualize or sentimentalize the game, or rationalize his love for it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2020
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 don’t know the appeal—I’ve not intellectualized it.
From Salon ● May 24, 2019
The catharsis that horror can provide now travels on a second and more intellectualized rail.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2016
There are fine passages in his essay, but it is intellectualized, bloodless, heedless of the trifling oddities of human intercourse that make friendship so satisfying.
From Pipefuls by Christopher Morley
“We see them as intellectualizing or sanitizing radical-right ideas that are then taken up by the parties in power,” said Allchorn, the U.K. extremism expert.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
“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
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
Transported by her own intellectualizing of other humans, Hustvedt frequently loses sight of the humans themselves.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 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
