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 think I was trying to intellectualize my feelings to get away from being vulnerable,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Martiel doesn’t intellectualize slavery’s wake; instead, he makes it terribly present, in the body of a living person: his own.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2024
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
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
“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
“We have so intellectualized our faith—there’s a need to bring head, heart, and body into the forefront of our lives, for the future of the Christian tradition.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
Primarily these are based on what McDougall calls the instinct of self-display, which becomes intellectualized and socialized very early in the career of the child.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
There was no looking back or intellectualizing what I do in those moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
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
On the other hand, Valenti may not care about intellectualizing her experience or belaboring her prose.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2016
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
