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
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
He did not intellectualize or sentimentalize the game, or rationalize his love for it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2020
How people who can’t face their own negative emotions intellectualize things?
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
“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
But for actors like Liam Craig, who encountered Mr. Bayes as an N.Y.U. graduate student in 1997, the training provides a vital counterbalance to intellectualized acting.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2016
The remainder are intellectualized, and many of them are emancipated from the conventions of the last generation, if not from those of their own.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
There was no looking back or intellectualizing what I do in those moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
The actual backstage behavior of the alternative era was another story, obviously, and a lot of bad behavior was justified by intellectualizing shock tactics as “transgressive.”
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2019
There is a logical point behind what I am saying, not just cynical intellectualizing garbage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
Even the punk references — and there are always references to punk in fashion — were more focused on intellectualizing disruption, on considering the craftsmanship and taking the long view.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2017
The higher we go in intellectualizing ourselves, the closer we draw to the cosmic consciousness, and the more familiar we become with its laws.
From Freedom Talks No. II by Seton, Julia, M.D.
